American Women Vs White Women Essay

The earliest women I remember, besides my mother, were my aunts, friends’ mothers, and school teachers. Most of my life I was surrounded by either black women, my family members, or white women, most of my school teachers and friends’ mothers. My mother and aunts always seemed to be working, whether it was at their actual jobs or later at home when they were taking care of their families. I always saw them as people who were constantly going above and beyond for their families. They also sometimes seemed to be stressed about something as well, whether it was bills, their husbands, or kids. When it came to my friends mothers, and even most of my school teachers, they had a calmer aura about them. Of course they are working long hours and taking care of their families sometimes on top of that, but if they wanted they do not have to because it was not they had to please anyone in their community. As a child there were two types of women that I knew. Women who had to constantly keep going above and beyond to please their community and those that didn’t …show more content…
The women I knew had to watched what they said and did because it would only reinforce stereotypes. Not only were they required to be professional out at work, but needed to uphold their parents and in laws super conservative standards at home. My mother worked long hours in a hospital as an RN, took care, and raised two girls, cared for her elderly mother, and payed all the bills despite my father being present and employed. She had to take care of everything and that was not an uncommon thing, I witnessed it in other households as well. I also saw that when a black woman was living her life for her own freely, people from her own community would be upset with her for not living life the right