Post by grammadee on Nov 28, 2016 4:27:32 GMT
Almost there!
For Monday, I chose EDUCATION as the prompt, and my page features 3 of my 4 dgd's on their first day of school this fall.
Education by Gramma Dee, on Flickr
I chose the girls, because for me as a woman of my era, education was the only way to approach any kind of equality. I chose one of the few professions that women entered back then: teaching. And it was also a profession where we were paid on a "grid", so if we had the education and the experience, we were paid on the same scale as a man with the same qualifications. There were about 300 engineering students the year I started University: ONE of them was a woman. There was one female student in Medicine at the time, but the ratio was higher because there were fewer med students.
I am thankful that my father insisted that I get a university degree: I was the only girl in the family and the only one of his five kids that went directly into a degree program. He wanted me to be capable of being independent, to go into marriage as an equal rather than as a dependent. Long before I left for campus, he insisted that I keep my eyes open, analyze everything, think things through, and figure things out.
I am VERY thankful that my granddaughters have a choice of the field they want to enter. They can be anything they choose to be if they work hard in school. And I know that what they learn in their chosen fields will shape the way they think for their lifetimes. What a long way we have come in the last half century. These young ladies will take us even farther!
For Monday, I chose EDUCATION as the prompt, and my page features 3 of my 4 dgd's on their first day of school this fall.
Education by Gramma Dee, on FlickrI chose the girls, because for me as a woman of my era, education was the only way to approach any kind of equality. I chose one of the few professions that women entered back then: teaching. And it was also a profession where we were paid on a "grid", so if we had the education and the experience, we were paid on the same scale as a man with the same qualifications. There were about 300 engineering students the year I started University: ONE of them was a woman. There was one female student in Medicine at the time, but the ratio was higher because there were fewer med students.
I am thankful that my father insisted that I get a university degree: I was the only girl in the family and the only one of his five kids that went directly into a degree program. He wanted me to be capable of being independent, to go into marriage as an equal rather than as a dependent. Long before I left for campus, he insisted that I keep my eyes open, analyze everything, think things through, and figure things out.
I am VERY thankful that my granddaughters have a choice of the field they want to enter. They can be anything they choose to be if they work hard in school. And I know that what they learn in their chosen fields will shape the way they think for their lifetimes. What a long way we have come in the last half century. These young ladies will take us even farther!
