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I need to interview a an older woman for a school paper that is due on thursday. I thought this would be a good forum to put this in.
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Write a paper detailing an interview that you conduct with an older woman. Be sure to keep the material relevant by asking questions that are related to the topics explored in HIS-531, for instance: access to education, employment (both traditional and non-traditional), availability of birth control, views on family life, instances of sexual harassment or discrimination, ect. Feel free to use any topics from your class readings, lectures, and films for ideas about relevant questions. The identity of your subject can be kept confidential if she would prefer.
This project should be interesting and provide you with valuable insights into the lives of real women in the context of women’s history. Have fun with it!!
I am 60 and birth control was only just available when I was a child it was still illegal in most states to dispense any type of birth control or info on it. The Pill came about when I was in my early teens. I married very early and have never really worked, only the odd job here or there when hubby was between jobs that sort of thing I have earned a total of $7000. in my entire life. My ideas on family life were and still are very traditional, meaning the mother stays home and raises the children and the husband supports his family and is head of the household. Which is kind of funny since my mother worked to support the family and my father who had disabilities stayed home and took care of me. I myself have 5 children and have been married 44 years.
I'd bet your instructor wouldn't mind if you wrote your paper based on a "group" interview with anyone who answers you here! Since your assignment is to interview a woman, I'm guessing the slant is about gender discrimination.
I'm 62 years old. I have benefitted greatly from the women who are ten to twently years older than me, who led the social change from the gender-role-bound days of the forties and fifties.
Access to education: I have an engineering degree from CalPoly, Pomona. Until 1960, CalPoly was not open to women. Luckily, that was before my time.
Employment: I'm from the age of women for whom legal gender discrimination in employment was strictly down to "bona fide gender differences". The typical example was clothes modeling. Then Ru Paul came along and even blew that away! I look around and wonder how so many people are still apparently bound by their gender roles. I think I was lucky not to have been raised in an atmosphere of gender roles, so it was much easier for me to avoid it.
Birth Control: I was lucky enough that when I needed it, it was reliable and freely enough available, so that I was able to control my fate.
Views on family life: I lived in a two-parent six-children household. My mother wore the pants in the family, because it just worked out better for them that way. She was a stay-at-home mom until my youngest sister was in kindergarten, and then built for herself a teaching career. Since I wasn't emotionally capable of going to university and making a career out of high school, that was a wonderful role model for me to follow when I finally matured enough to make a career. I, myself, have never felt the need for a 'traditional family life'. Possibly because my childhood family life was less than rosy.
Instances of sexual harassment or discrimination: Oh, hell yes! That's never going to disappear. You can legislate people's behavior, but not their values and reactions. And the fact is, men and women have loads of differences. As far as behavior goes, when someone steps out of line I don't formally report it. That's rarely necessary and just makes for hard feelings. I feign shock, then amusement, and comment on their hugely daring joke that would be illegal to say 'for real'. They get my unspoken message, and it allows them to save face.
I hope all this helps you. If you have more questions, or specific questions, please post them here ...
Heres one question: If any of you had children did you raise them to be what their gender is? For example, if you had a young daughter and she liked to play with trucks and stuff like that. What did you think of that and did you allow that or said they had to play with girl toys?
I'm 65. When my kids were young homosexuality was still very much in the closet and never even crossed most "straights's" minds, at least not mine. I ran a daycare in the 70's and don't recall gender identy being an issue with any of the kids I cared for, or mine. Everybody just played at playtime.
I now have 13 grandkids & 4 greats. Everybody still just plays.
I'm 65. When my kids were young homosexuality was still very much in the closet and never even crossed most "straights's" minds, at least not mine. I ran a daycare in the 70's and don't recall gender identy being an issue with any of the kids I cared for, or mine. Everybody just played at playtime.
I now have 13 grandkids & 4 greats. Everybody still just plays.
Totally agree. I am 61 and when my kids were young it never crossed my mind to care whether they played with dolls or cars. They just played.
When I was little, I did not like to play with dolls too much although I would use dolls as props for play such as being a doctor, etc. One of my barbies was an airforce flight nurse in combat in my play imagination. (that was before barbies were designated as barbie the teacher, barbie the doctor by mattel) Her name was Dorthea and she had auburn bubble/poodle haircut. My Mom made her a green flight suit. and we had all sorts of adventures. I ended up an Army Officer and had a wonderful career.
I had one daughter and four sons, funny non of my sons were really into trucks, well not counting Transformers and NONE of them were into sports at all. My daughter played with mostly girl appropriate [at the time] toys. my oldest was born in 1969.
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