President Barack Obama is a pleased women's activist.
In June, amid the White House's United State of Women summit, the president pronounced, "This is the thing that a women's activist resembles," while talking about his organization's commitment to sexual orientation uniformity.
Presently, in an enthusiastic article for Glamor Magazine's September issue, Obama is approaching men of any age to pronounce themselves women's activists as well.
"This is a phenomenal time to be a lady," Obama wrote in the article, distributed online Thursday. "The advancement we've made in the previous 100 years, 50 years, and, yes, even the previous eight years has improved life essentially for my little girls than it was for my grandmas.
"Furthermore, I say that as President as well as a women's activist."
The profoundly individual paper examines the "interesting difficulties" ladies face in both the working environment and society, and highlights the president's close to home associations with the ladies throughout his life – including spouse Michelle, his little girls Sasha and Malia and his mom and grandma, who raised him.
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"The most critical individuals throughout my life have dependably been ladies," he composed. "I looked as my grandma, who raised me, worked her way up at a bank just to hit a discriminatory limitation. I've perceived how Michelle has adjusted the requests of a bustling vocation and raising a family. In the same way as other working moms, she stressed over the desires and judgments of how she ought to handle the exchange offs, realizing that few individuals would scrutinize my decisions."
Obama additionally touched on how his little girls have changed his perspective of women's liberation, taking note of that as a father he too felt the "gigantic weight" young ladies fall under to look and carry on in certain ways.
Malia, the eldest Obama little girl, as of late stood out as truly newsworthy for moving in front of an audience at Lollapalooza music celebration in Chicago. The Daily Mail gathered contention for their feature, which depicted the 18-year-old as "twerking and crushing" with companions while wearing a "midsection exposing top."
"Michelle and I have brought up our girls to talk up when they see a twofold standard or feel unjustifiably judged in view of their sexual orientation or race—or when they see that transpiring else," Obama composed.
But Obama stresses that younger generations, especially men, need to continue to strive for change.
“We need to keep changing the attitude that raises our girls to be demure and our boys to be assertive, that criticizes our daughters for speaking out and our sons for shedding a tear,” he wrote.
“We need to keep changing the attitude that permits the routine harassment of women, whether they’re walking down the street or daring to go online. We need to keep changing the attitude that teaches men to feel threatened by the presence and success of women.”
The essay was published on Obama’s 55th birthday.
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