On Sunday, November 12, at approximately 8:00pm I was in the car with my Grandmother. We pulled up her house and I started to talk to her about my Gender Studies course and asked her if she would like to participate in my interview assignment. She was very excited to take part and was eager to discuss and hear my views on some of these topics.
2- What surprised me most during the interview and what was most informative was how blunt my grandmother was being about topics surrounding modern feminism compared to feminism many decades ago and how our views were very similar. For example, on the first question I asked her, “Do you think we have total equality between men and women in Canada?” She simply answered with, “Nope.” as if there were …show more content…
My role model is my Cousin. She is now going for her masters at waterloo university, she is also the first one in her family to go to university, the first to get a driver's license, and the youngest to move out of home. She has not had the easiest upbringing but has proven to everyone and herself that she is able and is not being to let anything bring her down because of the way she grew up. I aspire to be like her because she is getting everything she has wanted out of life by working hard and pushed through hard times. My grandmother said she didn’t have a role model but she admired my cousin as well for her drive and her passion for education. The appeal is the success that she has achieved but the success isn’t getting an oscar or being awarded a nobel prize, but is being a successful women in life. Having their own house, getting a good education, and still supporting her family. She has true independence and that quality in her is what my grandmother and I admire …show more content…
Firstly, violence against women is an epidemic that steams from male dominance. The term violence against women is startling because it is making a point of not just stopping violence but because the violent acts are being committed against women, such as sexual assaults, sexual harassment in the workplace, and domestic abuse are more abundant, they deserve a separate category. Aslo The right to a woman's body in not one that is achieved by buying her a drink or opening the door for her. Her body is not someone elses to be dealt with. These issues will affect all women at some point in their lifetime whether it is directly or indirectly and this is truly stopping total equality because it is due to lack of education and media’s influence on society. These are easy thing to change, in theory, but must be changed because it jeopardises a women’s safety and potentially her
2- What surprised me most during the interview and what was most informative was how blunt my grandmother was being about topics surrounding modern feminism compared to feminism many decades ago and how our views were very similar. For example, on the first question I asked her, “Do you think we have total equality between men and women in Canada?” She simply answered with, “Nope.” as if there were …show more content…
My role model is my Cousin. She is now going for her masters at waterloo university, she is also the first one in her family to go to university, the first to get a driver's license, and the youngest to move out of home. She has not had the easiest upbringing but has proven to everyone and herself that she is able and is not being to let anything bring her down because of the way she grew up. I aspire to be like her because she is getting everything she has wanted out of life by working hard and pushed through hard times. My grandmother said she didn’t have a role model but she admired my cousin as well for her drive and her passion for education. The appeal is the success that she has achieved but the success isn’t getting an oscar or being awarded a nobel prize, but is being a successful women in life. Having their own house, getting a good education, and still supporting her family. She has true independence and that quality in her is what my grandmother and I admire …show more content…
Firstly, violence against women is an epidemic that steams from male dominance. The term violence against women is startling because it is making a point of not just stopping violence but because the violent acts are being committed against women, such as sexual assaults, sexual harassment in the workplace, and domestic abuse are more abundant, they deserve a separate category. Aslo The right to a woman's body in not one that is achieved by buying her a drink or opening the door for her. Her body is not someone elses to be dealt with. These issues will affect all women at some point in their lifetime whether it is directly or indirectly and this is truly stopping total equality because it is due to lack of education and media’s influence on society. These are easy thing to change, in theory, but must be changed because it jeopardises a women’s safety and potentially her