Women who don't fit a certain beauty or fertility standard should not be so undervalued just because it has been engrained in some people's conscious or subconcious habits to do so.
"In some developing countries, the consequences of infertility—which can include ostracism, physical abuse and even suicide—are heartbreaking. 'If you are infertile in some cultures, you are less than a dog,' says Willem Ombelet of the Genk Institute for Fertility Technology in Belgium. Women are often uneducated, so their only identity comes from being moms. 'It [infertility] is an issue of profound human suffering, particularly for women,' says Marcia Inhorn, professor of anthropology and international affairs at Yale University. 'It's a human-rights issue.'"
-- BY KAREN SPRINGEN
~ http://www.newsweek.com/how-women-around-world-cope-infertility-89405
Cultures are made up of people.
"A 2010 study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that 'very heavy' women banked $19,000 less than their peers of 'average weight,' while 'very thin' women earned a dramatic $22,000 more per year. What’s more, a weight gain of 25 pounds was found to be linked to an annual salary decrease of $14,000 per year."
~ https://moneyish.com/ish/only-15-of-hiring-managers-would-consider-hiring-an-overweight-woman/
"Even being as little as 13 pounds overweight resulted in $9,000 less per year. I hope this demonstrates that this issue is not exclusively of concern to the very fat, but women in general."
~ https://www.xojane.com/issues/weight-discrimination-at-work
These are things that people do.
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