Don’t let ‘the grind’ wear you down | Opinion
We encourage one another to vote, protest, make calls and fight the power from within, but how often do we battle for ourselves?Most of us, when we were children, longed for the moment we would grow up. For some, it meant finally attaining those curves, the muscles and the height they desired, and for others, it meant achieving independence.
What usually happened, however, is we eventually learned that growing up is more than just reaching a particular date, signing an apartment lease or settling into the rigors of a new family or career. It’s about learning to define that new adult existence and navigate the path that you see fit; handling your business, refining your hustle and doing what’s necessary without compromising your goals, dreams and individual essence along the way.
It’s a challenge that we will continually traverse, especially women. As they say, the struggle is real, and the issues we grapple with are probably as generational as they are systemic. I wasn’t born until the ‘70s, but that era was full of positive changes regarding autonomy and women’s rights. My mother’s generation was the first to utilize birth control and to open and manage their own bank accounts. I remember magazine spreads and TV ads portraying proud working women who were reveling in their freedoms, ladies who could better regulate the size of their families or, in many cases, educate themselves and forgo marriage altogether.
Unfortunately, it’s called “the grind” for a reason. The longer women started juggling multiple roles and responsibilities, especially for lower wages than their male counterparts did , the more burned out we became — and that started before the pandemic. Lawmakers still have yet to legislate effective policies that ensure our collective safety, pay and child care, yet still insist that women matter and that families are crucial threads in the quilt of society.
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