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Women's
Health & Well-being

“Being a mother is the most challenging thing in my life. I have constant feeling of guilt that I don’t do enough.”

“Having a period for me means I’m limited in so many ways.”

“The biggest problem in my life was that I couldn’t get pregnant after the marriage, the worry if I will ever conceive. Every medical check-up had shown everything is OK, but there were no results. I had inferiority complex. People were asking me all the time when we were going to have children and that was very painful for me. With the medical doctor’s help, we finally succeeded.”

“The biggest problem in my life is that I have been in the subordinate position all my life. I have been feeling inferior, I haven’t been able to stand up for myself, that is the pattern from my childhood.”

“While I was building my career, I saw that men got better positions, higher salaries than me and my female friends. They were more respected. I had a feeling that women were more suppressed. “

"The biggest problem in my life has been that I have had too much burden on myself all the time – business and taking care of family and home."

“It is really hard to find real friends, not fake ones.”

“I am under stress every day because of school.”

“We, women, are oppressed in our society, we don’t have the same rights. I have a feeling that in the eyes of society, we are inferior (especially in the eyes of men). I have a feeling I need to prove myself all the time in the society."

“I wish my father could experience the pain I am going through painful menstruation … just once, to see how hard it is.”

“Once I forgot to remove a diaphragm – 1 week!”

“In my primary family I had a feeling that I wasn't accepted as a woman. They gave me tasks for men and after my father died when I was 10 years old, I had been forced to take a role of a man."

“During menopause I had been using daily pads because sometimes few drops of urine leaked. I was changing them 3 times per day…I had constant urinary infections. When I stopped with the use of daily pads, the urine infections stopped.“

“I am bothered by the feeling that men want women to take care of contraception and often wish that we take hormonal contraception. I had been using it when I was younger, but stopped because of the negative effect on my body.”

“My biggest problem is that I am constantly overloaded with everything - with work, taking care of others ... I am practically never on the priority list because there is just too much to do.”

“I struggled most with establishing my own business. The start was hard, I didn’t know where, to whom, I should turn for information.”

The hardest for me was that I was alone for everything: for bringing up the kids, for survival (dealing with financial problems), but I worked a lot and managed to stand up.”

“My life after the wedding has been devoted just to our family (24h per day). My husband has been building his career, so all work at home was on me. I gave up all my desires, hobbies. I had nothing besides my family. I almost lost my friends, because there was a point when I was doing just one thing - taking care of the kids and husband. I didn’t take any time for me, also me and my husband didn’t take any time for ourselves. That estranged us. I started to realise that too late – that I am alone: kids left home, I am not connected with my husband, I don’t associate with many people. Loneliness is causing mental distress to me.”