'Even the most consciously liberated among us may be unaware of our own internal biases.'
They’re a demarcation that signifies the remarkableness of achievement based on gender, rather than on the individual. As a liberal arts professor, my teaching examines the social constructs that reinforce stereotypical beliefs that block an open path to gender parity—not only in work and politics, but in the home. From my experience, I’ve learned that gender is complicated, and beliefs embedded in the social world of understanding about gender are not easily modified.
They felt she had it all: She was confident, educated married, and about to have her first child. Students felt she had her life map—the process of plotting out when and how to achieve career, marriage, home and children within the limited amount of physiological time women have to get there—solidly charted. They feared that they didn’t.
One student said her biggest fear after graduate school is what she saw as a collision between building a career and having children; it pained me to hear that she saw those two things as naturally in conflict. Even while my all-female class was well aware of the gender hurdles ahead of them, some maintained that there are just some things only a man can do—like lead the country—news of which felt like arrows to the heart.
To be honest, it’d be a lot more do-able for women to “have it all” if true gender equity and the fair division of labor existed in the home. During an election year happening the same year as the suffrage centennial, the time would seem long past ripe for a woman to lead in the White House—but
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