On being a woman

Dear Sir:

As a member of the fairer sex, I see it as my duty to remind the public of our importance.

Too many injustices and prejudices affect our everyday life for me to be quiescent or my conscience unmoved. Even in the workplace we are always eager to go the extra mile for the prosperity of our companies, but are quickly passed over for salary increase or promotion. From the beginning, the bulk of the decision-making lies on our heads. jost often we make decisions but allow our counterparts to believe they did just to save their faces. Call it psychology, manipulation or simply common sense, we are good at “keeping it together”.

We are not miracle workers, but we can perform arduous tasks, I, for a fact in April of this year performed an aljost impossible task when I had a 13 and a half hour labor ‘trauma’ that could only be endured by a woman.

I look back on my time in Jamaica, once at the Cornwall Regional Hospital, I witnessed a grown man crying like a baby – only to find out that he had ‘gas pains’ in his ribs. You would think he was about to ‘give up the ghost’.

We are the fairer sex, but we’re not necessarily the weaker sex.

I remember climbing trees and hopping vans, tasks deemed ‘unheard of’ and ‘hard’ by one male cousin.

In short, women of the world raise your hands; we are wonderful and majestically made with a responsibility to do and be the best we can and help our partners and children become good citizens. As women we need to first love and respect ourselves as only then will we get the love and respect we so rightly deserve from our counterparts.

Meshia Morant, Lauderdale Lakes