The Influence of Strong Women

I was asked to explore gender inequalities for a school project and learn how different influences shape perspectives. As an artifact, I chose to put together a podcast containing snippets of interviews I conducted with my family members. Excerpt: The first interview I conducted was with my mom. I got really deep into the mindset of “I must prove the ways the women in my family faced and overcame gender bias.” However, as I listened to the stories from my relatives, I realized the victim complex I was forcing on them was not the best way to showcase the phenomenal women in my family tree. There will always be a story of a negative interaction between a man and woman, from dismissiveness to cat-calls to violence, this will always be present. Society tends to focus on the ways men make women stronger, but the significance of another woman’s influence is rarely acknowledged.

This episode contains small snippets of the interviews conducted with women born between 1937 and 2006 and acts as a highlight reel of the longer podcast episode…. I was asked to explore gender inequalities for a school project and learn how different influences shape perspectives. As an artifact, I chose to put together a podcast containing snippets of interviews I conducted with my family members. The first interview I conducted was with my mom. I got really deep into the mindset of “I must prove the ways the women in my family faced and overcame gender bias.” However, as I listened to the stories from my relatives, I realized the victim complex I was forcing on them was not the best way to showcase the phenomenal women in my family tree. There will always be a story of a negative interaction between a man and woman, from dismissiveness to cat-calls to violence, this will always be present. Society tends to focus on the ways men make women stronger, but the significance of another woman’s influence is rarely acknowledged.