S.2 Q.3 Gender Roles Blog #4

An interesting article on gender role was posted on CNN called Women gaining political power about Shirley Chisholm being elected in 1968 as the first black women in the U.S Congress. It was really hard for women to get all the way to that position back then. Now we had a woman running to become president (Hillary Clinton) and people like Condoleezza Rice. Women were known not be able to take control over things especially trying to control a country. Now women have succeeded a lot and putting the women in a different place and showing that they can do things like men. Many women have accomplished like Jeanne Shaheen a Democrat of New Hampshire who is now the 17th female senator. She accomplished a lot by becoming New Hampshire’s first female senator and defeating John E. Sununu for the position. According to the National Organization for Women they said, "We elected the women who talked about issues that we care about -- child care, minimum wage, health care, equal pay." Now at least women aren’t known as the ones that need to take care of the household and the kids but was one they can do things that men do.

Fantz, Ashley. “Women gaining political power”. CNN NEWS. 13 November 2008. 10 February 2009.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/13/women.in.politics/index.html?iref=newssearch