rights of woman

When reading this, I could not help but think that this is pretty outdated, which is obvious though because it was written in the late 1700s.  She wanted women to be equally educated as men, which I would completely agree with if women were not getting the same chances as men were.  Now I think it is accurate to say both sexes are equally educated.  I think this inequality even would have been much more prevelant even in the 50s, but since then there has been a lot of progress.  I think my parents' generation might still harbor some thoughts about gender inequality, just because of the time period when they grew up, and the same with race.  But I think our generation, for the most part, has put those thoughts to rest.  The presidential race came to my mind when I was trying to think of a tangible example of my thoughts.  I think this presidential race was extremely important.  One part of this was that our country elected an African-American President, and showed the whole world the progress that has been made in this country.  The progress though, I think, has been with our generation, and I think what this election showed that most people have not thought of is that this election was a shift of power from my parents' generation to our generation.  Our country has an African-American President, could have had a women vice president, and was close to even having a female President. 

I think that a lot of groups of people who were not long ago slighted because of their race or gender are now being treated more fairly then ever.  When our generation has children, these thoughts will go away even more, which would be a great thing for society as a whole.

This might not be the most popular opinion, and it might be a little bold, but I think now there is almost more pressure, dealing with careers, on men then on woman.  If a married woman wants a career now, that's perfectly normal, and if she doesn't that is perfectly acceptable as well.  I think that with men though, they are not only expected to have a job, but to have the best job possible making a fair amount of money, and if they aren't, then they are failing or unsuccessful.  Stats/logic have shown that women are attracted to power/wealth/stability, which puts a lot of pressure on men to be viewed as successful now.

The subject of grades causing immortality was one that caught my attention.  I completely agree that this is the case.  I'm a finance major, and the teachers do not care whatsoever what grade they give you; most business professors have not known my name.  The average grade for classes range between a C and a B- depending on if the teacher is easier or harder.  I think the lower the class average, the more satisfied they are.  After freshman year, I had a pretty high GPA, but now it is at a 2.9 because of how difficult it is to do well in the classes.  They only give a couple As out to 40 or so people.  I think this definitely promotes cheating, because the higher GPA, the better job you get, the better grad school you get into.  I, like most other business students, do not have a job right now.  I talked to someone who does have a job, and a pretty good one, and they talked about how they lie about a lot of things in their interviews, and most likely cheat in some way.  If I had cheated and lied (whether I haven't because of morals, fear, or laziness blur), I very well could have a job right now.  So I think that the grading system, and a lot being based on of your GPA, definitely promotes cheating and lying.