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Kelli Banta
Zachary Williams
English 102 - H021
8 March 2018
Standards of Women
Women play a significant role in the world, especially when it comes to family and home
life. In “My Body Doesn’t Belong to You” , Burtman expresses that the society we live in today
shows how women are treated less than what they are worthwhile in “Women In Science” , Cole
shows how women are excluded from professions they should be allowed to find interest in,
which come together to show how women are expected to be what society expects of them--
nothing more and nothing less. In some cases, people may argue that if you are a woman you are
viewed as lesser because of the ideas that society puts into peoples minds. Females should be
proud of who they are, no matter what society claims to be true about them. In order to find a
solution to this problem, people need to become more aware of gender separation in order to
create a fair line between society's expectations of women and their expectations of men. The
separation from genders since birth to adulthood is proposing the negative effects that have
created this divide between male and females.
When one thinks about science the gender that comes to mind is male. How is it that
there is automatically a stereotype for science to be a man’s field? K. C Cole realizes how bad
gender separation is in “Women in Science” . Cole is one of the few women who study physics
and chose to write about women in the science field. She knew that there were fewer women
who studied science when she first noticed how many men filled her classes in college. Cole
became more aware of this issue when she attended a conference at John Hopkins University.

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There was less than a handful of women who attended and how little women had an interest in
physics and science. In her article, she expresses that women shouldn’t feel out place when
taking a science course or attending classes that are mostly filled with men. A person’s gender
shouldn’t determine their field of studies, especially for women, because any person should be
able to study and pursue whatever major that they desire, even if it does reside in the science or
mathematical fields.
Science equals men, a stigma that is commonly known for. However, how is it fair that
science equals men? It isn’t fair because women can be equally good at science just as men. The