re-cap of this week. we went to this lecture on the achievement gap. i thought points of the lecture were interesting but i was expecting more out of it i guess. i wanted to hear what the possible solutions were to solve this but all we were left with was..what do you think? reallllyyyyy. i wasted an hour and a half to hear you ask me what do i think!??? come onnnn...
back to reality. this week were talking about gender roles. whats more to say about that. this society has that set in stone. men know where they stand and women know where they stand. but there are people that choose to defy those roles and do what they choose.
now a days people do what they want regadless of how society used to be. back then who stayed at home and watched the kids? the woman did. who went to work and supplied for the family? the man did. now in some cases you see the man at home with the kids while the woman goes to work. or both the man and woman go to work. since the times are changing so are the people.
personally, i challenge those typical gender roles. i want to a bread winner for my family just as much as my husband will be. i want to be a part of my kids life just as much as any other parent would want to be. i plan to take on all the roles that i possibly can. just because i'm a woman doesn't mean that my path is already paved for me. i will pave my own path.
i'm sure there are many others out there like me. and i'm not saying that those who chose to stay home are bad in any way, i respect that. its just something i wouldnt consider myself doing. well not in the early part of my life at least.
love this! i completely agree with you. I believe that sometimes on some culture gender plays a bigger role. Being a Mexican I am expected to not work and stay home, I still see that when i go to Mexico. But I feel that here in the U.S. things tend to be more equal, although not as much as they should be. I guess that as women we have to fight harder but that won't stop us :)
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