Blog 4: What's Women's Studies

The Women's Studies courses that are offered at the University of Oklahoma do not really apply to my major right now. I would really be interested in taking Women Creating Social Change course. I gathered a lot information from the instructor when a panel of women came to talk to the class about the particular courses they took for their women studies major. The fact that you get to accumulate ideas and create your own "fake" non-organization made the course even more exciting. My major as of now is pre-dental hygiene, eventhough the course may not benefit my major it may be useful to me in the future. In my line of work gender does not play a major role in the job qualifications, because most dental hygienist are females. In my recent occupations, I have worked mainly with females. Therefore being a female did not effect any of my pass jobs. Although corporate managers prefer to have male management over female management. I have experinenced it in sales associates and optic-technician my employer chose male over a female eventhough they had the qualifications in their field. The only challenge that i will face is the competition for my occupation, because many women are interested in my field.

Response to Reading:
The reading in FIFE talks about how women today are still not considered equal to men. We made be different in some ways biologically, but we should not be descriminated because of our gender. I will say we have come a long ways, but we definitely have a long ways to still go. In Hull's article, is talks about what the stuggles black women had to through. I think they had a double standard to overcome 1) being they fact that they were women and 2) they were also black. To know that racism is still going on in the world is ridiculous to me. Being an Afrian American woman myself I do not want to be judged on just my race and gender.