Taking Women Students Seriously by Adrienne Rich

I found this article quite interesting and in a way surprised me as to how Rich was able to write about it with such anger and passion. If we notice at the bottom of the first page it says that this article was given to the New Jersey College and University Coalition on Women's Education in the year 1978. In my opinion, not a lot of women around this age would have been brave enough to write an article about taking women students serious for fear of oppression. Many women probably did not even know how to write because their were neglected from their studies or were probably always to busy doing what ever their husbands wanted them to do. Rich's life was different she knew something had to change and that is the main reason why she decided to write about it. I would consider her as a model to all the other women at the time, her essay should have been a way to encourage other women to get off their buts, stop washing dishes, stop having kids, get their life together and start studying! The sad part of this is that till this day not many women are being recognized for their hard studies, and it has been almost thirty four years since this has come out to the public. If I would have been a female student I would have loved to be friends with her and get a sense of what it felt like to be an independent women, and that was exactly the problem with many women. Since they were young they were probably taught that they were going to be the ones in charge of the house and kids while their husband brought the money to pay the bills and they would all live as a happy family, and what most did not know is that it did not all have to be like that. That is why while Rich was at school she never saw a woman in a lecture platform or in front of a class, and what Rich said was womens goal was to marry a Harvard graduate so that they could have a good future. To me that is ridiculous, when instead they can have better things in mind like doing better in life for the good of them and not to please others like their ignorant parents. Another thing I disagreed with was the fact that many women were getting raped only because stupid men thought of them as defenseless and less superior than them, it was just another simple girl to them.