Personal Narrative: The Three Components Of My Social Identity

The three components of my social identity that I wish to highlight are my gender, academic major, and my origin. To begin with, am a female with an academic major in software engineering and from African -American origin. Firstly, due to my academic major gender becomes a rather important component of my identity. Usually, there are very few women who are in the STEM field as it is perceived a male dominated field. Being female in this field means that people treat me in a different manner from the rest of my male counterparts at my workplace. Often, most people assume that men are smarter than women. Additionally, people further create stereotypes against women and claim that men work harder than females. In a work setting, this may make women work less hard as they see like their efforts will go unnoticed. People in the society especially the American society perceive Blacks as less smarter people. Further, being a female from this race presents me a different set of experiences that are related and which broadly shape my identity as a whole. …show more content…
Despite there being barriers that may hinder progression of my career the future opportunities out way the challenges. As a rising engineer I have more opportunity to get female mentors who have been in the field for long. Consequently, I plan to create a positive social image in the workplace so that they can slowly embrace working with women my field of practice. In a field where females face many barriers, having accurate information about each individual in the team will be essential in avoiding personal conflicts and ensure that I take up assignments which Iam best suited for. Additionally, to progress in future taking advantage of the learning curve is crucial. This involves creating rapport with group members in the work place to improve familiarity which each other’s values and