I think that the role of woman was to cook clean and raise children and that was how it was. Kathrine Watson believed that women should have a better role and shouldn't just be expected to iron her husbands pants and clean the bathroom everyday. But that was the way it was and that was how women were seen they more of objects than actual people. Katherine Watson believed that women were more than just a house keeper or stay at home mom.
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Katherine Watson's teaching her students that they didn't have to conform to society that it was up to them to decide their future. When she went off in class with the pictures of the women in that. When she fills out the application for Joan to go to Yale. This was not very common during this time at this school. A professor pushing a student to not conform but to go to law school over getting married and having children right away.
What Katherine did was great. The way she taught the students let them know that they have their own opinion. She was teaching the women that they can do what they want and chase their dreams. Her going off in the class with the pictures was showing the girls that was what they were at college for, but it did not have to be that way.
ReplyDeleteGood post. I like the way you explained that women were viewed more as objects than as people.
ReplyDeleteI agree. This was not common and I like that Ms. Watson showed them another way. Nothing is wrong with being a housewife, but she wanted to make sure they had options and dis not have to depend on a man their whole lives
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