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I am majoring in Advertisement and I will graduate next year, so my future job will hopefully be with a big Ad agency. I really what to be part of an Ad agency that deals with sports or an Ad agency that promotes big brands like Nike or Under Armor. With my major I have a lot of electives so I have had the opportunity to take many different classes and broaden my studies. So gender has not really been an issue towards me in a negative way, but I have had gender issues with my major and I will probably have issues with gender when I apply for my future job. The gender experiences that I have had with my major have been positive in a small sort of way. I being in the Journalism College at Gaylord has made me see issues dealing with gender because 70 percent of the students in the Journalism school are girls. So I am use to seeing girls when dealing with my major and the jobs that come with my major. The first major issue that I have seen with gender has been when I am applying for internships. When I go for an interview or a shadowing experience for my major there are always way more girls than guys. So personally I am going to have to get over the fact that I will be working with women more than men.

Not only have I only noticed gender issues dealing with my major, I have had gender issues from my previous job experience. I use to work at a shoe store in Sooner Fashion Mall in Norman gender equality was very good and positive toward women. I had two managers that I worked for and one was a man and one was a woman, so the equality was there, but it still wasn't the same. The reason I say this is that the guy manager had more authority over the girl manager and I thought that was wrong because the girl had been with the shoe store longer than the guy manger, but he still was promoted before her. A positive side of gender equality was at the same store and when I went in for an interview, I was interviewed by the girl manager and me personally being a male didn’t bother her and I was surprised by this because I thought maybe she would want to hire a girl before me.

In the F-word the one thing that was talked about many times was the gender equality issue dealing with men and women in the work force. The one thing that it focuses on is the unequal pay between women and men. Also another thing that the F-word talks about that really brought issues between gender equality is the double career women faces that men don't face. This topic kind of makes me mad because women argue that they should share the roles when they get home for work, but I think the women does all the work because if she leaves it up to the guy it won't get done the way she wants it to get done and it become a bigger issue than it needs to be. On a closing note I do agree with what the book says and the lone fact that there still is A LOT of work still need to be done in order to help make women and men's job equal.