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In reply to the discussion: Sincere question for the women of DU [View all]McKim
(2,412 posts)No the USA is not a friendly place for women. In graduate school because I was a part time graduate student, (because I insisted on caring for my baby at least part time). I was refused the opportunity to get the college teaching experience for my resume! In France they have sliding fee government health care, sliding fee scale high quality national government day care for working parents. In the US it is a scramble to get day care and it is expensive.
Also because of trickle down economics and its resulting poverty we have created a drug taking hopeless population of people in my city. It is no longer safe for me to walk around at night downtown alone. I am afraid to go to the bathroom in my local grocery store as it is up a slow elevator and down a lonely corridor. I have run into some very scary men there, even in the womens bathroom.Now I have to carry a whistle.
At 78 I am too old to immigrate to Spain or France but should have done so long ago. I stayed here to improve things and I have not been able to achieve that against the strong forces of dark money. No the USA is not a friendly place for women.