The modern day world of business is but a melting pot of sexes. The pot however is full of a lot of other spices that really makes the dish interesting. A touch of judgment, a tad of inferiority and a pinch of stereotypes are just a few ingredients that really stir things up, if you will. As the manager of a multi-million dollar company, I have a lot on my shoulders, including the ever debatable braw strap. To disprove the “stupid young girl” perception in my work place I decided to take this course. Even in this course women have been faced with a judgmental male attitude and the need for separation. Here are my personal judgments….
The women’s liberation movement was the most de-liberating event in the history of the female. “Bare foot and pregnant” being the common term they were fighting is my bliss. I’d love to take off these toe squeezing, heel crushing heels and be with my baby at home all day. Instead I strap on the pumps, squeeze into the panty hose and run around the house gathering lunches, backpacks and mittens, while toting a brief case, school books and two tons of stress on my back. By the time the five o’clock bell rings I’m off to pick up my child, make dinner, clean the house, do the laundry, pay the bills, do my homework, catch up on back logged work and maybe, just maybe catch a few winks before the alarm goes off. What do I say to all of this? Send me back, send me back to the cave. Now that us independent women are working and making less than men do in the same position, we have two jobs: house wife and our chosen career. I won’t make myself to be an advocate for women’s rights, but I am an advocate for respect. And if you’d like to bring stereotypes into it, I’d like to see a man handle all of this day in and day out and still be judged as a weaker and inferior sex.
To the outspoken man in our class; if I can get pregnant, do my job and still graduate university, you’d be smart to hire me because I am driven, motivated and hard working, not because I may need some time off to give birth. Furthermore, the separation of male and female opinions only verifies the male judgment on women. Why is it important or interesting to separate us into groups of male and female in the classroom? If we are fighting to be on the same level, yet even in the classroom there is importance on separation of opinion, you are only further proving or justifying the difference.
I don’t mean to fill the stereotype of the typical woman fighting for equality. I just want to take the time to point out how much better it would be to be a housewife than to try to do both. The point is we will never escape this cave. Man will always be the stronger, smarter breadwinner and the woman will always entertain his ego but know deep down inside just how strong she really is.
This class is about learning how to be a manager. I’d like to see if some of the judgmental men could manage to accept and admit that a woman is just as powerful as they are. If not….send me back to the cave, I don’t need both.
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