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Sheryl Sandberg's Facebook post about single mothers for Mother's Day is an inspiring one that honors them and speaks of her insight into their lives.
Sheryl Sandberg’s Facebook post about single mothers for Mother’s Day is an inspiring one that honors them and speaks of her insight into their lives.
“I never understood how often the world would remind my children and me of what we don’t have.”
In the run-up to Mother’s Day this year, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has made an impassioned plea on behalf of all single mothers. More than a year after her husband SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg death on May 1, 2015, Sandberg writes that his death “has redefined what it is to be a mother” for her. She has been raising her two children by herself, working at Facebook and also running a women’s support group– Lean In.
She says that although she was insulated from the financial difficulties, not all single mothers are fortunate enough because they didn’t have the ‘safety net’. Additionally, the profound emotional stress of societal assumption that ‘dad is around’ has an exponential affect on the mental health of these single mothers.
“Before, I did not quite get it.”
Sandberg’s recent experience seems to have opened her eyes and has put certain things in her perspective. One of them is the shortcomings of her runaway bestseller book, ‘Lean In’. The book had received severe criticism because of its inability to emphasize on the many workplace challenges that marginalized disadvantaged women faced.
Read the whole post here:
https://www.facebook.com/sheryl/posts/10156819553860177
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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