Aunt Lorraine is 10 years older than my mom, so she had a much closer look at what women were trying to do in order to have equal rights. I was shocked about what she told me and was a little disappointed that she was not more involved. Aunt Lorraine said that she was in college at the time that active protest were going on but she never felt that she was not an equal to men so she never felt the need to get involved. I still have mixed feeling on this because of what I have learned and what she has told me, but I can completely understand how a college student working to become a special education teacher had better things to do than protest women's rights. I guess I understand that she knew she would be successful in life no matter what and felt that it was most important to look out for herself.
I asked my mom what she remembered about her family life growing up. I was interested to find out that she grew up in what would be your typical family of the time. She said that her house was always spotless and dinner was always being put on the table the second her father got home from work. Her mother (my grandmother) also worked part time as a secretary but was always home in time to cook dinner and make sure everything in the house was in order.
I find it interesting that both my aunt and mom both became professional, full-time working women when they were both raised in a typical family with a stay at home mom. I guess that even if they did not know it at the time, they were helping to change the stereotype of women everywhere.
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