Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout

I have a new respect for women after working in the environment I find myself in everyday. There are many women in this call center that struggle alone to care and feed their families on $10 per hour. This job, for me, is for extra money for our household, allowing us to get needed repairs done on cars, putting a bit by for college tuition, and to provide happier birthdays and Christmases. Many of the women I work with take the same amount of money and feed and clothe several children with men only a transient aspect of their lives. Several were even supporting the men in their lives, living with and loving unemployed alcoholics or giving a deadbeat boyfriend or husband yet another opportunity to "get his shit together".

To be absolutely clear, I do not encourage living these lifestyles just to prove you can, but I am amazed that my gender can absorb hardship and disparity that can cause a man to flee. Because of our roles as mothers and caregivers, our societies health and wellbeing depends on the education, employment and the lifting up of the women who work hard to be all things for their families.

From the woman earning her master's degree while hauling elementary kids to school to the woman who has to tax every fiber of her being to put food on the table and keep a roof over her children's heads, my fellow members of the "weaker sex" are truly amazing creatures. Let us remember that sisterhood, that connection that each of us are amazing in our own right and strong pillars of our society.