My mom is a very strong feminist who is not afraid to speak her mind so I knew that she would be a very interesting woman to interview. She defined feminism as "the equality of women in the world of both sexes." My mom is in a very dominant female profession; she is a nurse anethesetist. She told me that when she graduated and tried to find a job, she found out that she was being offered less money than some of her male classmates. She was obviously very upset and discriminated against because she had the same qualifications. She knew that she had worked just as hard or even harder than the men in her class. My mom then told me a story about when she was in CRNA school and worked a night shift with a few other classmates. She told me that if two cases came in that night, the woman was given the less severe case and the man always took the more severe. My mom said that she could not stand this and felt very discriminated against.
I can definitely understand where my mom is coming from because sometimes I feel discriminated against just for being a woman in today's society. Men can get away with so many things and a woman would be looked down upon or judged right away if she did the same thing. Personally, I have noticed that OU football players always seem to recieve excellent treatment no matter what they do or where they are. It is almost as if people let them get away with everything just because they are a crucial player. Women, however would never be treated in this way.
In the reading, chapter three discusses how women are taking advantage of reproductive barriers and starting to use them more. Even though I don't fully agree with teenagers using contraceptives, I think that they are helpful to women because they can have control and protect themselves. In the past, women didn't have many options for contraceptives and therefore, were powerless in a way.
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