Feminist Interview Essay
I found my interviewee with the help of my sister Nora, she helped me think of the right person to interview. I chose to interview my sisters’ program manager Elizabeth, she is of the ethnicity White, an American citizen of the United States and she is 33 years old. Elizabeth has had a few difficulties as an educated woman, she had trouble dating in her 20’s because she was always the one in the relationship who was considered “smart and outgoing”, her boyfriend would bully her verbally and try to make her feel inferior. Elizabeth knew that she couldn’t be in any relationship like that and therefore quit dating; now however, she is 33 years old, has her bachelor’s degree in psychology and her credentials for counseling …show more content…
Elizabeth said in her own words, “I think that being a woman automatically puts you in the stereotype that women can’t drive, they can’t do men work, they should know how to cook, and they should be the house cleaner, and being a progressive woman shouldn’t be seen as something negative”. “As a child”, she says, “I began to learn that my dad and brother as men didn’t do house chores, specially kitchen duty. My mother and I would do almost ninety-eight percent of the chores.” Elizabeth tells me that growing up, wherever she went or studied, she was half of the time stereotyped, “I remember in my middle school math teacher for instance, he always told the boys to step up because the girls were smarter and that is not how it’s suppose to be. He would say that women are not mathematicians and they will not go far in science either”. In high school she was also stereotyped for being a woman and until she went to college, she began to feel “normal”. She then got her first job as an administrative assistant working for a private company, and she was neglected a promotion. Elizabeth wanted to move to a higher paying position but the company used excuses and told her that they needed her as an assistant. Elizabeth says, “really, all they wanted was a woman to work in the administrative assistant role, and I know that I was neglected the job position because it is harder for us to get a promotion due to stereotypes and men wanting to be at the highest positon”. It’s agreed that women are stuck in on a certain level so that the man or men can get the higher position so that they can be the one’s demanding. This is called the “glass ceiling”, where the opportunities are denied to the woman and she can’t promote, there is an invisible glass ceiling preventing them from getting to the top of the
I found my interviewee with the help of my sister Nora, she helped me think of the right person to interview. I chose to interview my sisters’ program manager Elizabeth, she is of the ethnicity White, an American citizen of the United States and she is 33 years old. Elizabeth has had a few difficulties as an educated woman, she had trouble dating in her 20’s because she was always the one in the relationship who was considered “smart and outgoing”, her boyfriend would bully her verbally and try to make her feel inferior. Elizabeth knew that she couldn’t be in any relationship like that and therefore quit dating; now however, she is 33 years old, has her bachelor’s degree in psychology and her credentials for counseling …show more content…
Elizabeth said in her own words, “I think that being a woman automatically puts you in the stereotype that women can’t drive, they can’t do men work, they should know how to cook, and they should be the house cleaner, and being a progressive woman shouldn’t be seen as something negative”. “As a child”, she says, “I began to learn that my dad and brother as men didn’t do house chores, specially kitchen duty. My mother and I would do almost ninety-eight percent of the chores.” Elizabeth tells me that growing up, wherever she went or studied, she was half of the time stereotyped, “I remember in my middle school math teacher for instance, he always told the boys to step up because the girls were smarter and that is not how it’s suppose to be. He would say that women are not mathematicians and they will not go far in science either”. In high school she was also stereotyped for being a woman and until she went to college, she began to feel “normal”. She then got her first job as an administrative assistant working for a private company, and she was neglected a promotion. Elizabeth wanted to move to a higher paying position but the company used excuses and told her that they needed her as an assistant. Elizabeth says, “really, all they wanted was a woman to work in the administrative assistant role, and I know that I was neglected the job position because it is harder for us to get a promotion due to stereotypes and men wanting to be at the highest positon”. It’s agreed that women are stuck in on a certain level so that the man or men can get the higher position so that they can be the one’s demanding. This is called the “glass ceiling”, where the opportunities are denied to the woman and she can’t promote, there is an invisible glass ceiling preventing them from getting to the top of the