“Behind every
successful man there is a woman”. Not only in the case of a man but this saying
stands for the functioning of the whole world. She is said to be the ultimate
strength and support behind the success of an individual. There is a lot of
differenciation and discrimination in the name of gender as males and females.
Nevertheless this difference do exist in nature from time immemorial.
A female draws
out various characteristics which is different from that of a male, varying
from factors such as physical, mental. biological and reproductive. These are
inborn and inbuilt right from the time a mother concieves a female child.
Womanhood is the period in a females life after she has passed through
childhood and adolescence, generally around the age 18. Women have three very
important physiological functions totally absent in men--menstruation,
pregnancy, and lactation.Each of these mechanisms influences the behavioural
patterns of a female greatly.
Another such noticable factor could be psycological.
Women prefer to share and care more, she would discuss and figure out a
solution for a problem which they face by discussing it with her friends. She
is more emotionally depended and possess aa emotional mind when compared to
that of men. But men on the other hand seem to be independent and keep things
more to themselves. But unfortunately, women are more prone to different types
of depressions due to their emotional weakness.
Communication skills and emotional intelligence are found to be better in
females. They tend to be more group-oriented.
Women can be, and many are, greatly affected by hormone fluctuations. Hormonal
changes in female body is much more prominant and undergoes changes as the age
advances. The main two hormones generated in female body are estrogen and
progestrone. Estrogen helps the uterus grow, maintains the uterine lining to
protect the budding baby. Progesterone has characteristics that balance and
counteract the adverse effects that estrogen can have.Progesterone is important
mainly for the preparation of the endometrium for implantation of the egg
during pregnancy and the maintenance of pregnancy.
women are more often portrayed as being under the influence of their hormones,
as being subject to hormonal tides or hormonal storms.
Women face many
injustices and inequalities globally, both in terms of economic factors and
human rights. An often overlooked aspect of this phenomenon is their health, so
its atmost important that proper diet and care are taken as far as female
health is concerned.
A healthy diet can help reduce PMS(pre-menstrual syndrome), boost fertility,
make pregnancy and nursing easier. It provides one with energy, maintaining
weight and keeps you looking good.
God has created
women in such a way that, she can take her generation forward by giving birth
to new offsprings. The ideal time to start learning about pregnancy is not when
a woman is already pregnant but much before that.
For a woman, pregnancy planning means learning everything she can about how her
own health and that of her baby can be optimized. She is capable of conceiving
from the time she attains puberty till the time of menopause.
A female body is also highly prone to diseases too due to its sensitive
features or even due to malnutrition which leads to less immunity. Many such
diseases are gallstones, migraine headaches,
osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, high blood pressure(hypertension) etc.
Women with Osteoporosis have weak bones which tend to break. Osteoporosis in
the vertebrae can cause serious problems for women. A fracture in this area occurs
from day-to-day activities like climbing stairs, lifting objects, or bending
forward
Research has
also revealed the genetic and molecular basis of a number of gender-based
differences in health and disease, some of which are related to genotype — XX
in the female and XY in the male.
Due to such less immune resistance women have got higher chances of developing
Autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune diseases can affect virtually every site in the
body.
Autoimmune
diseases affect approximately 8% of the population, 78% of whom are women. It
is still unkown as to what reasons are there behind such a prevalence. One of
the factors behind it could be genetic as it can be passed on from a mother to
her offspring.