Possible topics for a Women's and Gender Studies research paper?

The class is gendered perspective on cultural issues (200 level). I can't think of anything to write the essay on. our main topics are fundamentalism, globalism and militarism (online activism is also an option). She says that there will be four foci-- racism, sexism, homophobia and economic oppression.

Possible topics for a Women's and Gender Studies research paper?
Great! Forced female circumcision in third world countries to reduce women's sexual pleasure and keep them docile.





That is a hot topic
Reply:Economic disadvantages of motherhood vs. biological imperative. The most common conflict expressed by the newest generation of adult women is the challenge of career development vs. quality child-rearing. A part of wage inequalities is due to women making the choice to spend more time with their families than with their careers, which require unhealthy / unfair / exploitive amounts of worker energies from both men and women alike, which is where the root of the problem is found.





Most women need to work. Poverty is a world-wide problem suffered mostly by women and children and severely destabilizes societies. Although the Industrial Revolution brought these cultural changes in a dominoes effect that altered the work force and women's roles, we still have not begun to address how we as individuals and as societies are supposed to raise our families now that no one's left at home and now that we do not live in extended family arrangements with older relatives to mind the children.





Socially funded quality childcare, for example, should be a part of post-Industrial societies that have the reality of requiring that over 70% of mothers must work. Maternity/Paternity leave is another step in the right direction. The Israelis experimented with communal child-rearing. The Communist Chinese experimented with birth control measures. Commercial companies experimented with on-site childcare facilities which decrease workers' absenteeism and increase productivity among both female and male employees. Etc.





I personally advocate for a tax funded national program in which parents who have demonstrated adequate educational or training self-sufficiencies such that either parent can support the entire family if needed would be paid to stay home with their pre-Kindergarten children. BOTH parents. Why should the youngest and most economically weak socioeconomic group (young parents) have to bear the entire brunt of raising society's next generation of children? Wouldn't society be stronger if we helped young families to be stronger while they are raising their children? Aren't 99% percent of all human sufferings and social diseases rooted in lousy, inadequate childhoods that we could improve upon with a focus on helping young families over the enormous burdens and difficulties of getting started out in life?
Reply:"Do women hate each other?"