Women’s issues moving to forefront
The #metoo movement shone a spotlight on harassment and violence against women, and the gender pay gap persists. Women are more acutely affected by poverty and inadequate health care for themselves and their children.
"I think women's issues are people's issues," Lancaster said. "They have to do with work, family, priorities, children, and things like finances. Sometimes they make them women's issues. In this day and time, my issues aren't what they are for younger women. Personally, I don't have any big issues. ... The thing that concerns me is the lack of cooperation. There are people who don't want to cooperate. I wasn't as aware when I was younger, but I do think it is worse now."
"There needs to be a raising of awareness, and women may be the most viable force to do this," Coonce said. "We should take every opportunity and use every platform to champion these issues. If we could take the volatility out of our rhetoric, I think we more in common on issues that differences. This should be our challenge as women, to form a sisterhood of common goals."
"A culture needs to find equality and consideration important," Bartley-Pearson said. "Equality is still not considered important in our society. It is a big issue publicly and people like to talk about it, but when you get down to it, it isn't popular to think that people are equal -- not just women, but people of color or different sexual orientation. There has been some progress, but we still have too many women not making the same wages as men for the same work."
"I've worked for more than four years helping to develop those types of things while working for Indian health issues," Iron said. "Through the Affordable Care Act, we've addressed quite a few. Medicare and Medicaid have been vital importance to improving Indian health care. concerned that the cuts and attacks on those programs. I am also concerned about the attacks on birth control for women and the abortion issue."
"Anybody in that position -- that's a difficult hurdle to get over," Cohenour said. "I'm proud that women are finding their voice. Now it seems that many private industries are taking it seriously. I don't think our government leadership has been very supportive openly and publicly at all. I don't believe the president has been modeling the behavior that he claims he wants to see. Teachers know that to model behavior, you have to start at the top. Issues of character and respect are so important, not only with the sexual issues, but for equal pay for equal work. That is about respect."
"I have Indian health care, thank God," Sheppard said. "I was in a coma for three weeks, and without Indian health, I wouldn't be alive. I spent three months in
"It has been horribly damaged," Wallace said. "We seem more interested in undoing the progress that
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