My name is Liliana and I am a senior at ASU. Because my name is seven letters long, I chose the first three letters of my name for my blog handle. Interestingly, I am really only called my full name at school and work. My family and friends have always called me Lili, Lil, or Liana.
I will be changing my major to Justice Studies in a couple of weeks as soon as I have the opportunity to make an appointment with an advisor. It is my goal to apply for graduation this Fall and I am quite ecstatic! Right now, I am doing my best at attempting to manage full-time work, 15 credit hours, a home, a family, two young children ages 4 and 2, and many more responsibilities that I have been blessed with. Sometimes I encourage myself by telling myself that I am “Wonder Woman” and it is for that reason that I am taking this class.
I acknowledge that I have a role in my household, in society and in my family. However, I wish to identify and understand the most important attributes that make me unique. I also recognize that I would encounter a much more difficult time achieving my goals if it wasn’t for the generous help, love and patience of my family including my spouse, siblings, and parents. I want to be able to learn what other women have done to overcome adversity and challenges to achieve their dreams.
In previous years when it wasn’t the norm for women to be in the workplace I am sure that they were treated unfairly and unjustly in the aspect of job positions, ranking and salary. Women have faced several road blocks during their path to gain status as women capable of handling a career and motherhood.
Today, it is almost a necessity to have to be a working woman and mother in order to adequately provide for yourself and the family and therefore it is more acceptable but we have not quite achieved equality.
I believe that this class will help learn what is and has been necessary for women to do in order to work towards a more equal playing field in the work place. There are still jobs that are considered “manly” vs. others that are more “feminine” and in order to have an equal opportunity and to be able to compete for either job positions, it is imperative that we remove the labels and stereotypes surrounding the job market because they have only become barriers.
I believe a woman is as equally as capable of being an astronaut, mathematician, or scientist and perhaps by encouraging more young women to enter these fields, then, slowly we will see a more equal representation of gender in what have been mainly male dominated fields. I really look forward to a great learning experience and I wish you all the same!
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Welcome to the class, Liliana!
ReplyDeleteYou do seem to have quite a few obligations to juggle this semester. I think your experiences will add an important perspective to the class. Working mothers do face the double-day of working in and outside the home. Although, husbands are contributing more to housework and childcare, there still remains a great deal of inequity in the hours spent working after coming home from their place of employment. The time women spend cooking, shopping, cleaning, doing laundry and caring for children is referred as the “double-day”. Living close to relatives or being involved in an extended families eliminates some of the burden that women experience when they must do this work completely on their own. However, as more families live further away from family members, calling upon extended family is only done for emergencies. The first book, Putting Children First, examines some of the obstacles women experience in trying to rely on family assistance.
Look forward to reading your blogs.
Professor Romero