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While each one was interesting and enlightening, I did not see a single uniting pattern in these interviews. I think with the varying ages, locations, socio-economic backgrounds, etc. finding one would be unlikely. Each woman had her own ideas about woman's issues. Just like we learned about in class, how once women got the right to vote, they did not vote exactly the same - no two women, no two people are going to feel exactly the same about education, working outside the home, motherhood, marriage and a host of other issues. However, all the interviews were alike in their richness and insight. I think the interviews agree with we have learned about it class. Historically, the woman was usually at home, raising the children, completely out of the public realm. During the lives of these women, that was becoming increasingly only part of women’s experiences. Some women were single and worked, some were married and worked; Married women, mothers worked or stayed at home or both. The experiences of women were becomingly increasingly varied, as seen through the very diverse lives of our interviewees. --kokeefe | While each one was interesting and enlightening, I did not see a single uniting pattern in these interviews. I think with the varying ages, locations, socio-economic backgrounds, etc. finding one would be unlikely. Each woman had her own ideas about woman's issues. Just like we learned about in class, how once women got the right to vote, they did not vote exactly the same - no two women, no two people are going to feel exactly the same about education, working outside the home, motherhood, marriage and a host of other issues. However, all the interviews were alike in their richness and insight. I think the interviews agree with we have learned about it class. Historically, the woman was usually at home, raising the children, completely out of the public realm. During the lives of these women, that was becoming increasingly only part of women’s experiences. Some women were single and worked, some were married and worked; Married women, mothers worked or stayed at home or both. The experiences of women were becomingly increasingly varied, as seen through the very diverse lives of our interviewees. --kokeefe | ||
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| + | I found the different experiences interesting, but the theme of education united a lot of the essays I read (O'Keefe, Fitch, Whiteaker, Levine, and others). I think just the fact that all of us, the interviewers, are ourselves benefiting from higher education means that the interviewees that we chose to interview (whether we're related to them, or they are close family friends, or other convenient arrangement) are probably in a similar socioeconomic class and probably have similar views as to the importance of education. In other words, just the fact that we are the interviewers means that a common theme in the stories of the people we interview will be education of some sort or another. Most subjects participated in some sort of college (whether 4-year or 2-year) or sometimes job training (such as secretarial school), and their views on the importance of education may very well have been passed on to us, the interviewers and the recipients of this history. --Sarah Smethurst | ||
