Through out mankind's history, women have always been know as inferior to men. In Maya Angelou's "Operation Conductorette" and Lynn Cox' "Swimming to Antartica" the readers are shown that women can achieve goals beyond mens boundries if determination and hard work is applied. In "Operation Conductorette" Angelou is determined to get her job as a conductorrete and wont let anything or anyone get in her way. With Angelou's hard work, she got the job even though she was black in a racist country. In "Swimming to Antartica", Cox wanted to swim the Antartic ocean even though it was freezing cold. She set out to do it and ,with her confidence and her advantegeous amount of body fat,
