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1. Change
Change can take many forms. It can affect every part of our lives. It occurs in our family,
at work, and in our social lives. Some changes involve additions. Births, new friends or
relationships, and new possessions are welcome changes. Others involve losses. Death,
divorce or illness can be devastating. Some changes are sudden, such as losing your job.
Others are more gradual, such as entering middle age.
Change can be good or bad. It depends on the person and the situation. For example, a
divorce may be a tragedy or a relief. A promotion is good, right? But if you’re unsure
of your skills, you may view it as negative. Change may be sought out or it may be
forced upon you. It can challenge or stimulate you, or make you feel anxious and
threatened. Too little change can make life boring, while too much change can be
overwhelming.
Good or bad, change requires an adjustment of some kind. This takes energy. If the
demands are too great, it can drain you and create stress. Unmanaged stress can cause
physical and emotional problems.
You may not be able to control the change itself. So, the key to coping with change is
to get control of your response to it as much as possible. That’s when adjusting your
attitude toward change can help.
2. Bullying
Education is a very important part of a child’s life, and yet an increasing number
of children are showing reluctance to attend school. It is not that they find the work too
difficult or are afraid of the teachers. No, it is because they are being bullied.
School bullies can make other children’s lives a misery and their bullying takes
different forms. Often they will use their physical size to intimidate those who are
smaller and weaker than themselves. They will threaten their victims with a beating if
they don’t do as they say, often using physical force to extort money, and will steal
possessions from them by force.
Bullies use verbal abuse as well as physical abuse on their victims. The butt of
this abuse may often simply be slightly different in some way from the rest of the class.
A child may have red hair, wear spectacles, not have the latest fashion in shoes, have
only one parent, or be of a different race, for example. This can make them a target for
the school bully, who will indulge in the most insulting namecalling.
Some psychologists say that the desire of the class bully to dominate the others
is a result of an inferiority complex or some personal unhappiness, but this does not
help those who are on the receiving end of the abuse. So great is the bullying problem
that many schools have been forced to draw up an official strategy for dealing with it.
Teachers encourage the victims of bullying to report the matter to one of them,
but many of them are afraid to do so, for fear of more physical assault or suffer more.
Furthermore, those who browbeat others, although domineering, can often appear to be
charming to those who are in authority.
Because it is so difficult to get victims to report bullies, and often difficult to
prove coercion, many bullies escape unpunished. We must protect our children from
this persecution as they have a right to enjoy their schooldays.
3. Gender discrimination
A major American bank is being sued by the US authorities for allegedly
discriminating against its female employees. It has been alleged that women in the firm
do not have as good promotion prospects as the men and that their salaries are not on a
par with those of their male counterparts.
Gender discrimination in the workplace is against the law in America and in
many other countries. However, there are still obstacles in many firms which prevent
women from achieving the promotion that their talents and qualifications deserve. Many
women are promoted quite rapidly through the junior jobs in a firm, but face the glass
ceiling, when they apply for any of the most senior posts. So it is that, although there
are many women in middle management positions in many firms, there are very few in
top management posts.
Many women blame this situation on the old-boy network. Others see it as
evidence that many men are resistant to change and are still chauvinists at heart, while
some may feel that failure to promote women to top jobs is a result of feelings of
insecurity in the men who are making the appointments. Perhaps they are afraid of
letting women become too powerful.
Not many years ago the power which women have today would have seemed an
impossible dream to many women. Before the rise of the women’s movement there
were no such things as equal rights or equal opportunities for women. For the most part,
women were expected to get married and then be responsible for childcare and for
carrying out all the household tasks. If they worked, it was probably in a part-time, often
rather menial, job.
Feminists saw this as sexism and a waste of women’s talents, and get out to
change things. Although some people, women as well as men, now do not have a high
regard for feminism, women owe to feminists many of the improvements in their work
situation. Without them, there would be no positive discrimination, no job-sharing and
no parity with men in the workplace.