Why I took this class

I took women studies because I thought it would be very interesting and I wanted to learn more about genders and how both work. Male and female have very different brains and think differently. I think that it is interesting how males are thought of as stronger and more dependent. The words that our class came up with for males were strong, muscles, working out, weight lifting, independence, black, non-emotional. And then when we came up with women it was all about flowers and pink and emotional, cranky, dependent on men. I just think that it is interesting the different perspectives that people have about the different genders and the stereotypes there are out there for men and women.

Women's Studies

I am learning so much from this class, most of it is information that I already knew but from the chapters that I have read, I am learning more about womens rights and what women stand for and our rights. All of the reading material so far has been about how women have been known for housewives and doing cleaning and cooking, which the men aren't supposed to be doing. The men go to work and then come home to a home-cooked meal from their wives with the house already cleaned and spotless. It was very rare for the women to have the jobs and the men to stay home, that most likely never happened. Women in many years before this time were meant for house work and thats about it, they were not expected to have jobs outside of the house that was what the men were for, to make the money while the women were home taking care of the children and the men worked.