Gender Studies

Throughout this unit we have read books about the roles of the sexes in different cultures during different times in history. My favorite book that we read during this unit was A Thousand Splendid Suns because it was more recent and I feel like it was easier for me to relate to the people in the book even though women in the United States have not lost but gained rights. The women in A Thousand Splendid Suns lost all the rights they were used to. They lost the right to hold offices, the right to vote, and even the right to just walk outside without a man. I think men like to be domineering in general. I don't think they enjoy listening women because they see them as being lower than themselves. I think that A Thousand Splendid Suns shows how the women slowly lose more and more of themselves as their rights are taken away, whereas here in the United States, women keep gaining more and more rights. Recently women have been given the right to fight on the front line in the military in the United States, which is huge. I think these steps that we, as a country are taking, are slowly going to create equality among not just women and men, but also between minorities in our country. I don't mean the "equality" that we see today, but real equality. Why can't we just treat everyone equal?