Rich's essay was mainly about the mistreatment of women in the area of education. When she was in high school she talked about how the vigorous female teachers would treat the girls differently, they would push them to doing more work, giving them extra research papers, taking them too art museums and assigning a second project. She talked about the fact that in her day of adolescence women who weren't married were considered "old maids" but when she saw her unmarried teachers it made her change her point of view. Rich saw her teachers enjoying their life and not needing a man to depend on. I agree with this because of the fact that there are plenty of women who live on their own with their own job, living space, and sometimes her own child.
When Rich graduated high school and went off to college she was excited about the fact that she would now be taught by great men, but the longer she stayed she soon realized that there weren't any women teachers, nobody talking in front and if one did they would only be there to talk about a paper about a specific subject. Rich talked about the fact that there won't be anyone to push her to do better. She also talked about the fact that the way that the teachers teach the students, male and female, is not right. In her day and even in our own history text books, they only focus on the male who discovered this or fought that. There are hardly any pages on women doing something for the world. I also agree with this because I looked in my history book (which I still have since no one bought it >...>) and there was only one or two sections talking about how women did things or caused events that changed the world in a good way. I also agreed with the fact that the professors and how they won't be pushing you to succeed or try harder, but in this case its with both genders because from what I learned from our guest speaker today, they don't really care. But I do disagree with women not in front talking, because now we do, maybe back in Rich's day it was different but now we are getting even. We might still be a little under men but that sure as hell is about to change.
Good insights. And when you looked at that history book (sorry no one has bought it!), did you notice that the famous women were often set apart from the text of the book? So they weren't seen as part of history but separate from it? Hmm...
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