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There seemed to be trend in which the women in these interviews maintained motherhood and work so well in spite of society saying that you cannot achieve both. These women overcame challenges, heartaches, and divorce and at the same time embraced life, love, and raised their children. The women coming out of middle class families had more opportunities. I recognized the shift in expectations and push for oneself to go to college in these women’s experiences also. But I agree with Sarah, these are reflective memories, so we can't get a total feeling of what that person felt at that time, it's more glossed over sometimes. I think it's important to remember that we only captured pieces of their lives in the interview. There was a lot of really interesting things that I couldn't all fit in 2 pages, did anyone else have that problem? -MHimes | There seemed to be trend in which the women in these interviews maintained motherhood and work so well in spite of society saying that you cannot achieve both. These women overcame challenges, heartaches, and divorce and at the same time embraced life, love, and raised their children. The women coming out of middle class families had more opportunities. I recognized the shift in expectations and push for oneself to go to college in these women’s experiences also. But I agree with Sarah, these are reflective memories, so we can't get a total feeling of what that person felt at that time, it's more glossed over sometimes. I think it's important to remember that we only captured pieces of their lives in the interview. There was a lot of really interesting things that I couldn't all fit in 2 pages, did anyone else have that problem? -MHimes | ||
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| + | I found it fascinating that despite the geographical location, many of the women who shared similar socioeconomic statuses had similar experiences. For example, Mrs. Ripley, who Megan’s interviewed, seemed to be a well-off woman from the South. She had a very similar story to the upper class Northern woman that I interviewed. The main difference I found was that the Northern woman I interviewed was very progressive, while the Southern woman Megan interviewed seemed to be more conservative. – Erin Sanderson | ||
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| + | A very surprising trend that I noticed was how easily many of these women would drop what they were doing to get married! Alice Wagner, for example, described the life of Lois Wagner who was attending Mary Washington and quit school in her junior year to get married. This is similar to the person I interviewed who got a highly prestigious grant to do medical research at the Rockefeller Institute for sickle cell anemia and methadone, but met her husband and chose not to attend Rockefeller Institute. These women put so much work towards their education, and they just stop as soon as they got married. That is why I am not surprised that the U.S. Government eventually saw women as a misused resource. – Erin Sanderson | ||
