Blog 4

I have taken several courses in WS at OU and have found them all to be interesting and motivating. I believe that these courses have given me a passion to want to help people with their daily struggles. Ideally I would like to find a job in mediation after I graduate. Most preferably is family mediation. The WS courses have helped to understand the power struggles that each gender experiences during conflict, which I hopefully would be able to identify during mediation. Eventually, I would like to go to grad school but I'm not sure if I want to go into International Affairs or Family Counseling. It will all depend on the job I receive after I get my BA and well I can juggle working and having a family and going to grad school.

Before I went back to college I worked in the banking industry. There it is common to find a lot of women working in lower management but fewer women climb the corporate ladder. It was very obvious and I had no desire to claw and gnaw my way through corporate politics.

In response to the readings by Hull. I always made this false assumption that in the midst of black men getting citizenship and white women getting the vote that black women were covered. It wasn't until my class in body imagery that I realized that black female culture is too often overlooked during important political arenas. I only wish there was a way to educate the public, (besides college students) about the inequities that black women have had to endure throughout American history and even still today.

In chapter 4 of our readings, I was again concerned that women are fading from important social issues. Before college, I worked in the "real-world" and developed friendships with women from various walks of life. But I was never truly confronted with the issues of feminism until college. Does this mean that the proceeding feminist movements will be dependant on college women who may or may not feel like participating in politics after college? If so, then feminism is truly in trouble.