Women and Politics

I thought our presentation went really well today.  I enjoyed Dr. Plane’s introduction into our topic because he has a good insight into the first ladies and what their role in the White House is and how it has evolved.  I enjoyed the class discussion about the box activity and the stereotypes that are placed within it.  We had a lot of material to cover in our presentation about the roles of the First Ladies and then we looked at 4 different first ladies individually, however, we did not make it to that part of our presentation because there was such a good discussion going!  The video that we played for the class did a really good job at summarizing the point we were trying to make about the stereotypes placed against women in politics and how they are always in a lose/lose situation.  I hope that the chances of women in the political world begin to change because there are women out there that are capable of holding office and doing a good job at it.  The presentation allowed us to organize the way we want to write our literature review paper because we could organize our material and gain a better understanding about it.  The focus of our paper will probably be centered around the idea that the advances in media have allowed for the progression of the first ladies to occur but it is also the fault for the many stereotypes placed against these women in politics.