Women's Rights & Issues

if you were military police and female, the only way you could move out of the field and attempt to move into another was to be declared "hysterical." They wouldn't let you have a weapon if you were declared hysterical, of course... and that only applied to women.

The things we had to go through to just make a life for ourselves, eh? It's a wonder we ever made it out alive!

I've got a degree in psychology, and the one thing I learned real well is that they can make statistics say anything they want them to say! Most women are a heck of a lot calmer, more sure, and more in touch with everything around them once they get rid of that chain that's dragging them backwards.

My ex-husband greeted me at our divorce proceedings with "Now you'll never get that college degree!" My answer was the t-shirt I was wearing... it had the profiles of two heads, one male, one female. The wording said: Behind every great woman is a man who tried to stop her.

I got my degree... with my daughter by my side at most classes (I couldn't afford a babysitter. Child support was $150/mo; her school was $185/month. But I got my degree, nonetheless... and then made a career out with technology and computers! (LOL) The psych came in handy, tho, in calming down all those male CEOs when their computers went haywire. No matter what position I held in a company, people would ask for me personally for help desk stuff. I never made them feel stupid over their mistakes... but it was really hard when I had one guy screaming he couldn't see his curriculum stuff. I told him it was at the bottom of the page... then I had to explain to him what "scrolling" was, and how to scroll!!!