On March 23, 2016 I went to the Circle of Life/Intergenerational Dialogue here at Radford University for Women’s History Month. It was the second meeting of the month and there will be one more. This week’s inner circle consisted of five women who are in their 30s and 40s. All the women in this week’s group are mothers. One is a single mother, one recently turned 30, two are librarians, three work in the English department, and one works in the women studies department. The women in the group were between 30 and 47 years old. I loved the advice the women gave to the younger women in the room. They said, know your self-worth and always love yourself first. One woman recommended not taking out too many loans because it takes a long time to
The lifespan interview was conducted 70 years of age married black female whom I will be calling Mrs. D. The purpose was to document the subject’s lifespan history with recollections of important or significant events in her development. Mrs. D is a native of McIntosh, Alabama. She was born to a Mr. and Mrs. Hiram P. Reed Sr. on the 13th of December in 1967 in McIntosh Alabama. She has five siblings 4 brothers and two sisters. She has 6 children three boys and three girls with one son being descent. This interview was conducted on a live face-to-face webcam so that Mrs. D would feel much more comfortable.
The period 1940-1975 represented a time of trouble within the United States and overseas. As World War II ended in 1945, many Cold war conflicts erupted shortly after that, increasing social controversy among teenagers, minorities and especially women. During this time period, gender inequality was ongoing in many aspects of life. Women were tired of constantly staying home engaging in domestic activities and were dissatisfied in their roles as “housewives”. The rise of the women’s rights movement was spurred by the growth of women joining the workforce, resentment of being treated as inferior to men, and the rise of unity among women.
The 150th anniversary of the founding of the Women’s Rights movement was celebrated in 1998, today women benefit from the tremendous positive changes brought about by this movement. These women empowered one another in promoting social change. The National Women’s History Project (NWHP) (1999) stated
The role that women play in society has changed and evolved numerous times throughout our nation’s history. Women have been viewed as both pious and ungodly, chaste and immoral, and both precious and worthless. However, what has continued to remain constant in the lives of women is the unchanging feeling of inequality and insufficiency compared to their male counterparts. Those feelings endured by women are decidedly timeless, no matter what other circumstances exist within their lives. There are indeed similarities between the lives of the women in Lepore’s biography Book of Ages and Wilson’s autobiographical novel Our Nig. Both Frado and Jane Franklin Mecom were born at a disadvantage because of the sole fact that they were female. They each
Women have been a vital key to the shaping and progression of our society. Throughout time, women’s roles and opportunities in the family, workplace, and society have greatly evolved. They started from being housewives that don’t have many rights, even in the household, to being valued citizens in our
The women of the 1920’s were first introduced to society as a generation that spent most of their time cleaning, cooking, and nurturing their children. However, as the “Roaring 20s” came to impact the
On March 16, 2016 I went to the Circle of Life/Intergenerational Dialogue here at Radford University for Women’s History Month. This was the first Wednesday that they had a meeting and there will be two more in March. This week’s inner circle was made up of nine women who are fifty years old or older (but one woman is still 49 years old). The outer circle consisted of students, faculty, and staff. To my surprise a decent amount of people showed up at 2pm, they had to get more chairs multiple times.
In my move to Chattanooga, TN my brother and I were discussing the dynamics of the family systems within the city and realized that there is a huge age gap missing within the work force and real estate sectors amongst the African American population. The ages of 25 to 35 were not a vibrant part of the population which has a direct effect on community growth and development. The middle to older adult population is the driving force behind African American advancement. The African American older adult women are operating private daycare centers, work factory jobs, buying homes, and raising their grandchildren. The teen youth being raised
On Women Turning 70: Honoring the Voices of Wisdom On Women Turning 70 is a book that is made up of interviews with several older women who took their biggest steps toward success when they were in their senior years. Rountree spoke with women like author Madeline L’Engle, and acclaimed newspaper columnist Liz Smith, who became successful just as she was about to retire. Rountree learned about the women’s lives and got their take on feminism and aging to include in the book. The women that Rountree chose to interview seem to be women who either began living life to the fullest in their older years, or who achieved greatness young, and have held onto to that throughout their entire lives. On Women Turning 70 includes
I really liked what you wrote about family systems. My Hinson presentation discusses some great points about what a family system is. One great component was the key to having a balance in the household. Now if you think of having a balance in other daily task you will notice things going smoothly. Family systems have changed over the years tremendously and they don’t look like what they use to back in the fifty’s or sixty’s. Family systems also have change from the 90’s from my childhood. It comes down to attachment and parent styles now and you can tell in today’s society by the kid’s behavior usually what type of parenting style is being used. An attachment is a special bond and is usually positive between the child and the parents
After World War II, the nation was blooming. Everything was growing, people were going to college, and wealth grew. The idea of the perfect American life was developed, this included a husband that worked and a wife that stayed home and took care of the house and children. To look at how women are affected by this perfect life I am analyzing “Governor Adlai Stevenson Tells College Women about Their Place in Life, 1955” and “Good Housekeeping: Every Executive Needs a Perfect Wife, 1956”.
Women are fickle creatures; they are envious of some, when in their youth. There is the ever present identity crisis of when they are young of trying to look and act more mature. In middle age, they are trying to look as if time had frozen, to preserve that midway point. Women dread the day when time creeps up slowly, inconspicuously with the ever increasing loss of youthfulness that is unstoppable. What’s a woman to do when she realizes she has reached her zenith in life. She should take a small keepsake box, and collect her memories, as the precious jewels that they are.
Long gone are the days when women were expected to stay at home and play “housewife”, cooking, cleaning, and making sure the kids got off to school, while their husbands worked a 9 to 5 in order to make ends meet. Today, women are no longer viewed as weak and incapable. A “superwoman” is the new woman. Men as the “breadwinners” have been replaced by “Ms. Independent.” The traditional male role has diminished as women fulfill bigger roles in society and exceed the expectations of their male counterparts in the household, workforce, and within social settings. We have abandoned old rules; no longer is it a “man’s world,” we now live in a shared world.
The advice on managing my financial resources was also beneficial because it open my eyes t the pitfalls of credit card debt that I didn’t pay attention to before such as the amount of extra time and interest it would take to pay off a card if I only paid the minimum payment each month. The suggestions for saving money were interesting as well. I learned there are huge advantages to saving early and using the power of compound interest.
In the early 1990s participation rates of women abruptly flattened out. Initially much thought was given to the fact that more mothers were exiting the labor force temporarily in order to look after their children or become homemakers. Thus analysts turned to specific age groups. They