Earlier today I was watching a television show during my lunch break which reminded me about this class. After reading the section titled “Tired of Playing Monopoly?” This section of the chapter talked about classes in society and where and how women play a part in it. It covers how women in lower working classes don’t have the advantages in education, jobs, and mothering like women of middle-upper class up bring.
The show I saw today was about a women who was raised in an upper class family were she could have anything that she wanted. After living this priviledge lifestyle for 16 years she decide to leaving it. She left her parents, moved out on her own and became pregnant. For the next 16 years of her life she raised her child on her own, worked hard like a lower class working woman would. She worked her way up to a position as a manager at a hotel. Once her daughter was in school she to decided to go back to school to get her degree on her own at a community college even though she could have had a higher education through an ivy league school if she would have stay with her upper class parents. Once her daughter was in high school she realized that she want a better life for her daughter because she had experienced a life of struggling. So she asked her parents for help not for herself, but for her daughter. They agreed to pay for her daughter to go to a private school to get her the best education possible because she was a gift girl when it came to being smart. Once she graduated high school she attend Harvard. The woman finally felt completely accomplished. She gave her parent the daughter that they never had with her daughter. And she gave her daughter the life that she could have had.
