Introduction To Women's Studies Class

The Introduction to Women’s Studies class was very informative and very eye opening for me. There are many things that I learned about women’s history and many of those things are still very significant today for the fight for equality and women’s rights. Some of my favorite topics were matters that I had a personal interest in, as well as my own experiences with. I am very focused on fighting for equality for everyone, especially for woman; with this comes the understanding that we need to inform more women that they are important and that they do have a voice that deserves to be heard. Women should not think or feel like they are inferior beings and women should not live in fear of power or status. Women should instead join forces and help …show more content…
Women today feel like they must keep up with their appearances or they will be judged and criticized by people around them. This puts a tremendous amount of pressure on women of all ages to maintain an unrealistic expectations of beauty. Real beauty comes from within and people should begin teaching this to our children at a young age instead of programing young minds to think that physical beauty is more important than inner beauty, as well as teaching them that you must appear attractive in order to achieve power and status in …show more content…
Daughters of working mothers are now becoming more successful than ever before and sons of working mothers are contributing to the household more than ever before. There are many reasons for this, but they revolve around witnessing a successful, hardworking mother who was able to provide for their families, and thus changing the children’s way of thinking. According to Ananya Bhattacharya from CNN “Daughters of working mothers grow up to be more successful in the workplace than their peers” and “Sons of working mothers are more likely to grow up contributing to the childcare and household chores” (Bhattacharya). I think that it is very influential for all children to witness their mothers work at some point in time so they are able to contribute more to this changing society. Working or raising a family should be a personal choice that should not be judged either