Posts tagged women’s

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com – Friday, March 08, 2013
I've been searching for inspiration to write this post for the past few weeks. I might've written the first paragraph about 10 – 15 times, and then erased it slowly by pressing backspace. So I decided to start at the beginning…well, my beginning.   (photo credit earth sky.org) Growing up I was daddy's little girl. I played games with my brothers and was very very mischievous…but to my dad I could do no wrong. What I loved the most about my dad was how he treated the women in his life. He treated his mother with love and respect, his sisters like princesses and my mother like a queen. He always showed my mother love and affection privately and publicly. Growing up I believed and thought all men were as good as my father. Why would I think otherwise? Due to medical requirements at the young age of seven I was sent to live with my grandparents in Canada and thus began my life in the west. I missed my family so much — especially my father. My father's love was replaced by four uncles and grandparents. Again I experienced love, kindness and respect at the hands of the men that continued to raise me. The most amazing thing I found about living in Canada or the west was how readily available news and information was. I learned so much about the world, politics and history. I blame my grandfather for turning me into a news junkie. In all my research and news obsession, I began to notice a discrepancy in how women were treated versus

Amber Rehman: Why You Should Care About International Women’s Day