Taking Women Students Seriously Analysis

Taking Women Students Seriously In Rich’s speech, she asserts that women students are not taken seriously, this is true because, me, as a female student can speak on the issues that the author states about females not being taken seriously. “I see my function here today as one of trying to create a context, delineate a background, against which we might talk about woman as students and students as women” (Rich 443). This speech was spoken by Adrienne Rich, who has strong solutions to the way female students are treated in and out of the classrooms as well as in society in the 1940s, by stating examples and some of her personal experiences as a female student and as a women teacher living in a world that looks down upon women as if …show more content…
Men and women students are both in the same classroom, learning the same subject at the same pace, but the curriculum validates men more than how it validates women. If women are brought up in a story or an article in a classroom it would exhibit them in a bad way or in a small way opposite from that of a man. Some of the stories and literature told in the classroom contains sexist grammar that can destroy the minds of young women and little girls making them think less of themselves because men are the only ones given recognition and present women in a lesser way then men. Along with the misleading coeducation, there was a bias of higher education meaning that the sciences were seen as a subject that is white and male, racist and sexist. This was a bias that was expressed in both subtle ways and blatant ways. In todays world, racism and sexism is still an issue in society as well as in the classroom. I know a female who was told by her father that she should not go to college but to stay home and dress presentably to attract a rich man to marry her. Some situations like what my friend was in is because of religious purposes and some are because the father is continuing the customs from back in the 1940s, but now a day’s, women are becoming as successful as men and some even more than men. Even though females do the same jobs as males, in some workplaces women are still looked …show more content…
Some questions female teachers, along with females of the world, should ask themselves is that: “How do we, as women, teach women students a canon of literature which has consistently excluded or depreciated female experience, and which often expresses hostility to women and validates violence against us?” How can we teach women to move beyond the desire for male approval and getting good grades and seek to write their own truths that the culture has distorted or made taboo” (Rich 445)? Therefore, based on my experiences, and the society that I live in, I can be in total agreement with the author that women are not treated equally with men, but not at the expanse as how it was in the society which the author grew up