Women Overlooked Once Again.....

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This was an interesting article I found about women being overlooked when it comes to health care. The main point the article was trying to make was that women are in more need of health care during their reproductive years but now it seems as though health care is hard to obtain and afford. Their seems to be an issue with some insurance company's and looking at the employment rate; full time vs part time, some employers tend to not provide health insurance because of the size of the population so women are being singled out once again.

The down size to all of this is that women who do have access to insurance gets charged more than men do and i think that is just absurd. The alarming thing that I found was that women manke about 80 percent of what men make but yet and still are suppose to pay the same amount for premiums that men pay. To me women need health care more that men because they tend to have more problems through out life such as having children, pap smears and mammograms which are needed on the regular. Many company's don't even look at if there is pre-existing conditions which would probably make it even harder for some people to get insurance, but not even that it would raise the cost up just to get that insurance.

This goes hand in hand with what we were learning in class about health because women do tend to make less than men and it seems as though women get the bad end of the stick when it comes to trying to maintain good health with the way the econmy was recently. It would just make more sense to have preimus less for women because of the way they are paid.

Why Human Trafficking?

http://www.wxii12.com/news/23171577/detail.html

This was a story done in Ermelo, South Africa regarding prostitutes are the main reason why this small town attracted them, which was human trafficking. It was sad to see that a child as young as the age of 16 was being treated like a slave and forced into prostitution. It was sad to see that many women suffered horrific situations such as being raped or killed because they didn't want to work. I cant imagine myself being in a situation like this and being forced to do things against my will. Just think about Innocent children that are put into this predicament because of family or situations that was out of their hands. I think the justice system needs to tighten up on this because it is just not right. It seems as though there would be laws implemented against this to help protect women and children of younger ages from being exploited. I know this tends to happen in countries where labor is not all that good and they have to face abuse and unsafe situations.

Impact of Violence: Why Some Women Stay?

http://http//www.wxii12.com/money/5491398/detail.html

This was as interesting story that I found on Domestic Violence in the workplace. The main thought of this story was that there are many reason within domestic violence why women miss work. Through all of this majority of the time supervisors and people of authority are unaware of these situations because maybe women don't really think the situation is really that serious.

The thing that really stuck out to me was that when asked 8% of men said they had been victims of domestic violence in the past 12 months. I never really thought that men would actually be victims of domestic violence because in many instances, the woman is the one that is usually the victim. Many women choose to stay in this environment because they are scared to leave or are threatened on many occasions if they leave. According to the class discussion we had on domestic violence, many woman are economically depended on men and if they leave they will not have anywhere to stay. In many societies, they practice patriarchy in which the woman is supposed to be subordinate to all the men in her life including her son, etc. Then many times the family has turned against the woman because of the many, so majority of the time there is no family support when needed.

This situation not only affects the woman or man as a whole but also her place of work. I say this because all the workers are put at risk if the situation goes further and also puts the woman's life in jeopardy because every time she wakes up or steps out of her domain she will constantly have to watch her back and it will mentally obstruct her everyday life.