What is a woman’s worth?

Do we really need to ask this question?

Yes!

This country is in need of some more serious changes. A woman’s value is exactly the same as a man’s as far as both being human beings worthy of value, but with all the unbroken glass ceilings in the world women clearly aren’t treated as equals. Women are undervalued every day and treated by some as an object or a doormat.

Worth is the level at which someone is valued. A woman worth can never be given a value that she can be paid during her lifetime. Her worth is up to her not other people. Women are often treated disrespectfully and thought less than men. Women have made many movements through the years socially, educationally, and economically. But still women are considered unequal or invaluable?

A woman can and has filled a variety of roles as wives, daughters, mothers, sisters, aunts, and grandmothers from a family dynamic. In the professional role truck drivers, farmers, lawyers, doctors, politicians, missionaries, judges, and corporate leaders just to name a few the positions. Today’s woman work should not be considered girls work. Each woman will bring her unique character to her situation or purpose.

Every woman is beautiful in her skin, valuable to someone, and has a purpose for life. Some women have the desire to create change to help develop a better environment for the communities they live in but for centuries, a woman’s youth and beauty were the determi-

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nant of her goal and worth.

How long will it take us to erase the ignorance of the past? And how long will it take us to erase this message in our own minds?

When we listen to the world we forget our truth and depreciate women with each thought.

When the voices of women haters scream more loudly than our inner knowledge, we can’t hear the truth of what our souls know to be true.

Continuous living by outdated traditions and concepts with each generation that minimize our current reality has caused many women to still question their worth.

Women are conditioned to scrutinize their image in the mirror trained to find their faults.

A worthy woman knows how to refuse to be confined to being considered less, can mute the ignorance of centuries past assessments, and know their true worth. A woman’s worth is the totality of who she is. Women are more their bodies, age or beauty and sexual allures.

A woman’s worth is measured by a life fully expressed. The courage to be her own person to create her own vision of life regardless of what society says. A worthy woman lives her original life facing her fears of moving against the majority, challenging the unfair rules and laws of society.

Starting and implementing great movements not in defiance, but in the need to create new rules and laws that allow for greater opportunity and growth. Women should be free to create their definition of worth.

Women should be free to enter all professions and follow all of their dreams. When women are undervalued society is continuing the unfair stipulations, and inequalities barriers of past treatment.

Women should always be considered powerful, deserving, and worthy, because they have a lot to offer to their communities, family, friends, church members, and coworkers.

When women are allowed to live their truth and express their lives fully, they are less likely to become hostages of their dreams. A worthy woman will make freedom decisions, without shame, limitation, or justification. A worthy woman is not afraid of freedom of choice to be herself, to pursue her small or big dreams.

Do you know your worth?

Do you want to be worthy?

The Bible states “She is worth far more than rubies.”

(Prov. 31:10) You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. (1 Cor. 6:20) The price is Woman=Life= Life=Life… Women produce!

She produces change for the nation. But by the grace of God I am what I am. (1 Cor.

15:10) 'A woman is the full circle.

Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” — Diane Mariechild. The world’s judgers should stop devaluing women and understand that a woman’s worth should not be determined by her race, sexual orientation, career, or culture.

Women are worthy!

Sherry Holliman is a concerned citizen of Crittenden County and has some views on a variety of topics that she wants to share with her neighbors. She previously served on the Marion City Council.