Female Empowerment
Explore how stereotypes affect women’s mental health and life goals.
THE PROBLEMATIC
Women Beauty Stereotypes: Women desire of becoming physically and emotionally like their beauty role model is nowadays their most important life goal, even losing their identity and own beliefs have become aside priorities. Consequently, women have been compared with objects, and even sell their bodies. This is the harsh step they go through when chasing beauty standards.
Associated health disorders with beauty standards: Secondary effects like depression, anxiety or eating disorders, are some of the many negative effects caused by women´s rush to beauty ideals and for body perfection.
THE SOLUTION
To begin with, is crucial to get the fact that although the problem is easy to understand, is difficult to properly address due to societies cultural movements and fashion nowadays. However, before materializing people, shaping mindsets is possible. As a result, we propose the creation of an inclusive medical webpage, where women can contact their favorite psychologists, read articles related to the topic, listen to exclusive women empowerment podcasts and even comment on a public blog to see other people similar issues.
USEFUL ICONIC PHRASES
“I believe it is not a healthy lifestyle to try and be someone other than yourself and it would be better if we can all love ourselves and our beauty! We spend too much time focusing on making ourselves prettier.“
“I think it is a misconception. We must accept ourselves as we are and give more importance to our inner essence than to our physical appearance.“
“Very unhealthy – you should always be happy just being yourself. There are two things wrong with trying to be someone else (1) you will probably never succeed and (2) you will never be able to relax because you’re constantly trying to think and look like someone else.“
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Explores the impact of stereotypes on women’s mental health and goals.
