AND ANOTHER THING
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From: Lynda Weston, M. Div.
Date: Friday, August 11, 2006, 8:19 AM
Subject: and another thing
Reply to: 256213
ID: 253787

Christina, I hear ya. I work as the spiritual care co-ordinator of a large nursing home. I work with all women, oh, except the manager/director who is a man and the board of directors, who by and large are men, and the minister of health who is a man and, and, and.... The facility is now in contract negotiations and it is becoming a hell on earth. Mainly because we have women turning/working against women because all those who do the laundry, who work on the floor with the residents, who change their diapers, who feed them, who dress their wounds and try to follow their demented minds as they desperately reach out to be heard are paid....now the women who manage them are also paid nothing and this sets everyone against each other because they cannot yet see the actual power they could wield if they would come together over this. The managers, who are also single mothers and who have sacrificed a huge amount to become managers, are now empowered and those working 'under' them are all still caught in victim status. So that is my struggle. That is my 'play' ground of the feminine at the moment. Lynda