What Women Want Happy Sanity: Women, Families, Health and Recovery, posted by DrMyers, a resident of the Greenbrae neighborhood, on Nov 3, 2009 at 12:32 pm DrMyers is a member (registered user) of Pacific Sun
I'm seeing a lot of interesting stuff coming out of "The Women's Conference", a huge event that took place last week or so, emceed by Maria Shriver, attended by about 25,000 women. Here's just one interesting slice:
The question "what do women want" was posed to women across a broad age span. Some of the responses on the web site:
"Women want to be judged by the size of our brains and not the size of our breasts or butts." (said by Meghan McCain, a woman in her 20s)
Sarah Covert, another woman in her 20's, said "Maybe all those Miss America contestants actually had it right. I value the battles that the feminist foremothers waged for me. I appreciate my rights to work, to apply for a credit card, and to vote, but I really do want world peace..."
"What do women want? Women want to be able to do everything. The thing that continues to plague American women – as it has for the last decade or more – is that conflict between choosing one’s professional world and one’s personal world..." (Lisa Ling, in her 30's)
"Women want to feel indispensable. Women want to give back and feel needed in return." (Kim Barnoun, in her 40's)
"Women want permission to put themselves back on their lists. In a world where we are the caretakers and nurturers of children, spouses, ailing parents, grandchildren and virtually everyone but ourselves, we’ve lost sight of the all-important notion of taking care of ourselves..." (Rovenia Brock, in her 50's)
"I can’t speak for all women, but I want to get more sleep." (Arianna Huffington, in her 50's)
What do YOU think "women want"? I can ask myself what I want -- but I don't know whether I'm representative of other women or whether I'd want anything different if I were a man.
Is there any such thing as an opinion bloc of "Marin women" so that one could ask "what do Marin women want"?
Posted by Georgia Annwell, a resident of the San Rafael neighborhood, on Nov 4, 2009 at 6:01 pm
I want equal opportunities, equal rights, equal pay, equal respect, equal representation, and equal attention. I want people to listen when I talk. I want these things for myself and others. For younger women I would add access to birth control and safe abortion.
Posted by Sandy Murphey, a resident of another community, on Nov 6, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I want to be able to appreciate what I have, take responsibility for getting what I want, and the ability to re frame my point of focus from seeing things as "bad" or "good", but rather as "wanted" or "unwanted".
I want to be the bearer of "thought blessings", even by influencing a shift to a more positive perspective.
And I want to recommend a book called The Vortex by Esther Hicks, based on the Law of Attraction.
Posted by Sandy Murphey, a resident of another community, on Dec 8, 2009 at 9:35 am
An interesting concept "An opinion bloc". What would that look like?
A group of Marin women who all want the same things? Unlikely....
A poll of Marin women who are willing to answer a questionare, and someone to tally the results. Even then, you'll only know what the participants want, not all Marin women.
I look at "who" wants to know what women want, and "why". Do we believe that a fairy godmother will grant us our wishes?
Example, who will grant Arianna Huffington more sleep?
Who will give women "permission" to put themselves back on their lists?
Who can help women with their conflict of choosing between their professional and personal world?
Who can grant us the feeling of being indispensable? None of us really are incapable of being disregarded or neglected, and we even do it to ourselves. None of us is absolutely necessary, as we may
find out when we are no longer able to do the things we thought we had to do.
We are being asked what we want, as if someone is going to give it to us.
I think we need to ask ourselves what we want, and discover what we can do to get it.
I'd like to see the question re-phrased to "What do you want, and what are you willing to do, or not do to get it? That might even be helpful in inspiring women who don't have a clue to how they might get what they want. It could be especially helpful to women who look to others to give them what they want.
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I'm seeing a lot of interesting stuff coming out of "The Women's Conference", a huge event that took place last week or so, emceed by Maria Shriver, attended by about 25,000 women. Here's just one interesting slice:
