Women Studies

Last year I took a women studies class because it was senior year and I thought it would be an easy A. well the class turned out to be nothing like i thought it would. The first day we learned about women in history and then the rest of the time was spent on feminism and they way women are treated. I felt uncomfortable a lot of times in this class because our teacher felt very strongly that women are not treated the same as men and was very open about it. Sure I think back in the fifties they way women were treated was bad, how women stayed home all day and had to cook and clean and never work. But today things are very different. Women go to college a lot more then men now and have important jobs. Women aren’t the only ones making dinner anymore or doing laundry. In my house my dad does the laundry. One of the things in class that we had to do was make a journal and everyweek we had to add an advertisement or something we saw on tv or something that happened to us that we thought was unfair to women. I had a hard time in this class because the way I grew up I never felt like I had to do something because I was a girl or couldn’t do something because I was a girl. I played with legos all the time with my little brother and we played with racecars. My parents never told me I couldn’t play with that because it was for boys. My little brother even played barbies with me a few times. Our teacher would give some examples like how guys always get the remote and always have to drive places. Both of my parents drive all the time. Both of my parents work also, they both are bringing home paychecks. When we clean the house it isn’t just the girls doing it everybody has to help out. I guess I feel that things have changed for women, and I think that today is not at all like it was in the fifties. I think things are equal for men and women.