Blog Post #7
Part I
Our last two sessions in class where pretty interesting. Two weeks ago the activity with the stars was touching. During the activity i had a blue star i believe where my family and friends where having a hard time accepting but still supporting the decision. The whole time i was thinking about my cousin because he went through that scenario when he came out of the closet. I found it interesting how he waited until the day of his high school graduation to confess that he liked males instead of females. I understand why he waited because in high school every kid judges and more when someone is different. Like Jaimie described, our whole family knew but we never said anything because it wasn’t our business. When he took me into the room and confessed all I had to say was, “your my cousin and I’ll love you for who ever you choose to be”, and he responded by, “Thanks, I know i can count on you”. Not just me, but i am happy to say that the rest of my family is supportive too, and I know that means a lot to him. Then our last session we did our chapters presentation. I enjoyed the book, it was a powerful story. Lavar is like a role model. Someone who came from a bad neighbor hood, had his ups and downs in life, and yet still made it to be someone important that people can look up too. This book reminded me of the first activity we did outside. I see it as no matter where we come from or the struggle we went through, at the end we all together in the same school, in the same class, with the same professor, with the same goal of getting educated to be someone in life.
Part II
The readings where about gender in higher education are more about the females progress and discrimination in education. In chapter 9, it states that in over two decades, women are stepping up and achieving more in higher education than men. Before college, males are more likely to drop out than women. Years ago in the 1990’s males where the ones that where two times more likely to graduate than women. Somehow this has changed and I believe it’s because women have more rights and more choices to choose. In the article of Goldman, he says that women are underestimated to earn a degree in STEM. Women are expected to have easier career choices like education, art, nursing, or other topics that men don’t really go for. But it is said that once in college women tend to change their majors for one of the fields in STEM. I believe that women can be smart like men in solving math problems , studying technical courses, being engineers, and figuring out science. Me on the other hand STEM was never my favorite topics, that’s why i chose communication. I rather speak than doing math.
Questions:
1) Why is it that men are dropping out instead of completing their education?
2) Why are women not encourage to study STEM
3)Why are women more interested in education than men?
4) How can we make women interested in STEM?
