Assignment 4

I'm a public relations major and am very interested in doing event based marketing or being a public relations specialist when I graduate. Marketing events and many of the duties of a PR specialist are very sensitive to all types of discrimination. Both careers are strongly public based and depending on the issue or event at hand, I will have to alter what I am doing to best suit the clients and audiences involved. There are a few Women's Studies courses at OU that may be useful to me in the future such as  Body Image vs. Reality, Women in Sports, and Women Creating Social Change. All of these would be useful because they deal with some of the major issues in the media. Women's sports aren't publicized as much as men's and women worry a great deal about their image because the media. I think Women Creating Social Change would do a great deal for me because it analyzes how women come together and marketing focuses on groups etc. As far as my later work, I think that gender will play a role but not as big of role as it would if I were a man trying to be a nurse or a woman trying to be an engineer. Men used to be more dominant in the PR and marketing fields, but there is a shift in the PR field for sure. I don't think I'll face many issues because I have spoken to many women in marketing and PR and they haven't mentioned gender issues unless they deal with broadcasting. 

Readings: Education remains on the top ten list of social issues that women face. Gender inequality is usually always first though. It used to be that women were not highly educated. I don't realize education being a problem because education runs so deep in my family. As I read in The F-Word, many of the goals of feminists remain unrealized, for I am proof of that. People's backgrounds do effect what issues they focus on most. I am the product of a black man and a white woman. Education runs deep on my mother's side of the family and my dad was the first to graduate from college on his side of the family. People of all colors deal with all of the same issues... the issues are just viewed at different angles. The other readings both prove that by educating one another the word spreads and makes things happen, as we see with feminism. Women's studies is now a credited program at many higher education institutes because people and women have the right to vote because women would campaign and spread the word.