Voices

In From the Feminine Mystique: The Problem That Has No Name women's rights are brought to the service. It gives a different perspective to the reader, as to what its really like to be a women and how certain women may feel in society. The publication brought to the surface of political, social, educational, and personal issues. Why can't a woman have an education? Why can't a woman run for a position in office? Why can't a woman do more than shove the kids off to school and cook dinner. Although, all of this seems to be a bigger issue then, then it is now, we still face certain factors with each of these issues. For example, Hillary Cliton is a well-respected and well-known politician. The press stressed that one of the reasons she was not elected as president, was based off the fact that she was a woman and that The United States was not "ready" for a woman president. Another example, would be how woman are portrayed on TV. Talk shows like the Tara Banks show, portray women's rights as the most powerful we have to own as a woman. But shows like Wife Swap do almost the opposite. They portray women as the "typical housewife". SOME of the women do all the cooking, the cleaning, and wait hand and foot on the men. Yet the show balances it out with having a different mother come in and show the families that it is okay to take on some of these responsibilities themselves, to create fair and equal-ness within the home. But the negative part of the show it disturbing. The fact that kids do not appreciate what their mothers do for them, or how their husbands only confine them to their certain "jobs" or rooms is a sign of disrespect to women. If there is one thing i would want society to know is that women are just as good as men and we are equally as mentally strong and able just like men, AND...we can look good doing it!