Women's issues involve the experiences women encounter, how they understand them, and how they value themselves and others. Women's issues also involve how men both perceive and treat women, and the extent to which men understand that women experience their lives differently to them. There is often an interaction of both personal and cultural factors in women's issues, where respectively, significant others, and cultural gender identities and gender role conflicts, play a part in their formation.

Causes and Symptoms of Women's Issues

Women are biological beings. This predisposes them to experiences inherent to being a woman. Infertility which can lead to depression, abortion and miscarriage which cause bereavement, giving birth which can be followed by Post Natal Depression (PND), and the menopause which can cause Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS). Women are members of societies in which abusive men commit domestic violence, rape and sexual abuse, causing women physical harm, anger, anxiety and depression.

 

Women have culturally conditioned gender roles which affect how they relate to their children, partners and colleagues. Family and work responsibilities lead to exhaustion. Workplace gender discrimination blocks women's financial equality with men. Cultural pressures on women to be thin are often blamed for causing eating disorders.

 

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