Blog 4

My future vocation is definitely in the area of health. Right now I am very set on becoming a physical therapist. I’m not sure what God has planned for my life, but I do know that I am called to help people. I want to make a difference in people’s lives. I think gender will be somewhat of an issue in my area of work. I’m honestly not very aware of what it will be like, and that is one of the reasons I am taking this class so that I can be prepared. One class within the women studies program that I think would be helpful in my future career is Gender and Interpersonal communication. I would also enjoy taking the body image class. In the past I have had two different jobs. My first job I worked at a grocery store. I rung up the groceries and sacked them too. After I had worked there for a while I got the opportunity to keep the books for the store. I dealt with all the money that went through the grocery store. The only times that I ever felt like gender was an issue was when I was dealing with my boss. Every day when I’d come to work he’d judge what I was wearing. He almost treated me like I wasn’t good enough to work for him. The second job I had was during the summer. I helped work harvest. The farmers would bring in their trucks full of wheat and I would weigh it and test the wheat. It wasn’t very often that you’d see a woman come driving through with the wheat. The women were the ones who worked inside. Other than that I was just happy to have a good job to help pay for college.

In the book FIFE, it was really good to read that “professors in women’s studies did not and do not trash work by men; we intervene on sexist thinking by showing that women’s work is often just as good , as interesting, if not more so, as work by men.” I think women are very capable of being just as successful as men. I also think that men are also very talented, smart, and successful, but I think that men sometimes forget that women are very intelligent. This part of the book really encouraged me by showing me that being feminist doesn’t mean you hate on men. It just means that you believe in the success of women.