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This piece will be tackling the topic of RESILIENCE. This is the sixth and final part of the article, which will deal with the question: DOES GENDER AFFECT YOUR RESILIENCE?
Last Updated on November 4, 2020 by ELLEASH
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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending – C.S. Lewis
How are you doing today?
I hope you enjoyed the penultimate piece of this fascinating topic RESILIENCE.
We have now come to the last part and I am so happy that you have been looking forward to the various pieces of the puzzle coming together, and that you have been telling me you have learned new things along the way.
In my last post, which you can find here, I wrote about how to encourage resilience in children and today I wish to go over another point that I find interesting in this vast topic of resilience, and that is GENDER.
Does gender affect your resilience?
Does the fact that you are a woman or a man, influence your chances of being less or more resilient?
I mainly concentrated my readings on how resilience affected women.
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Let me try and answer that question, with the help of an article published in January 2018 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The article states that regarding survival and longevity, women historically thrive in greater numbers than men, during times of crisis such as famines and epidemics. (Side note, good to know for the current situation y’all!!)
Even when overall life expectancy rose, researchers found women outlived men between six months and four years.
From what I have read, resilience benefits both men and women when facing challenges and adversity.
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However, women also draw on resilience to overcome obstacles more often placed in their way, such as job discrimination, sexual harassment, and domestic violence.
Another study found that when confronted with gender bias in the workplace, women relied on adopting male characteristics, mentoring, intrinsic motivational factors, as well as their femininity to work through obstacles.
Isn’t that insane? One, we have to dig deep into our resilience because of what others do to us and put in our way, AND we have to be someone we are not to ensure our safety is not compromised …
Mind blown? Yeah, so was mine!!
This point totally requires a little more digging on your part, if you are interested, as there really is a plethora of knowledge out there.
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It is, therefore, on this point that I will conclude my second themed series on this fascinating topic RESILIENCE.
I’m sure you were all very much aware on the importance of resilience as a trait, and maybe what needs to come out, from this themed series, is that you have the power to build our own resilience and ensure your personal emotional scaffolding is as strong as ever, to welcome adversity and hardships with a shrug and a smile.
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I hope this piece has also made you realize that you have the power to change what you don’t like in your life – YOU, yes, you.
Surrounding yourself with a positive and encouraging environment, you can learn the skills and add to your toolbox to thrive!
I learnt a great deal whilst researching for it and I was equally, if not more, grateful to be able to share with you a little bit more of who I am.
I’d love to hear your comments about what you think about this topic. Did you learn something? Did you know that you could learn to be become resilient?
Let me know in the comments section below!
Thanks so much for reading and being part of this second themed series.
Elle Ash xo
