Ashley+L’s+2017+OpEd+Article

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= Living in a man's world = ====On Saturday January 21, 2017, I was proud that women marched together, a feminist movement that made me feel like I would never have to settle for a shallow life next to a sexist husband. I love my father, and I’m beyond grateful and blessed to have him in my life, however my father has traditional Mexican views when it comes to women. In a traditional Mexican family the man is the head of the household, his role is to provide for the family, the woman's role is to cook, clean, and care for the children, typically they don’t work. I asked my father his opinion on the women's march and his response was,====

I was baffled that someone in 2017 still had that mentality, but since it is my father's point o
====f view I tried to understand it. He was raised with this belief and has indirectly raised me the same way, I do not believe in whatever role my father thinks I need to abide by but if he is referring to cooking, cleaning, and caring I’ve grown up being taught all three. I’ve been cleaning since elementary school through the years more and more. I’ve been learning how to cook since elementary school and the amount of dishes I can prepare has grown through the years. Being the eldest of 3, I’ve had to care for and babysit my younger siblings. Without even realizing it I have grown to fit a stereotypical wife role, but I won’t settle for waiting around all day with my children cooking and cleaning my life away, catering to someone else's needs. I live in a man’s world, where even my mother accepts the role she was given after she got married. Don’t get me wrong my parents are in love and happy, but my father has never cleaned before because that is a woman's job, and my mother has never mowed the lawn because that is a man's job. I was tired of depending on my parents for money so I went out and I got myself a job, that upset my parents at first. Maybe it’s because I’ll fall behind in school, or maybe because they the thought of me being independent shocked them. I want more for myself then being a housewife, I take my education seriously because it’s my ticket to success. I typically don’t start my homework until 8:30pm every night, because I have practice until 6pm and then I have to come home help my mother make dinner, and then clean. My parents prioritize me learning how to cook and clean over me having time to get a decent amount of sleep after I finish all my homework.I have to work hard in school to educate myself, that way I will never have to settle for being nothing more than a housewife. It’s 2017 and this world is dominated by men, just when a woman was about to change history a sexist bigot is elected president. Women still make only 79 cents per every dollar a man makes. Woman are so unappreciated in my personal opinion, not only do they carry a child for 9 month ruining their physical appearance,while enduring immense amounts of pain during the labor process, only to be denied the vote for 144 years. George Washington came out of a vagina, everyone comes out of vaginas, so why are men so sexist towards women. We literally bring another human being into this world only to make 21 cents less than a man! I live in a man's world, and I refuse to abide by such a shallow form of living.====