Women of Color rights

Jason Wong
ASA2 Section 2
Week 2 Blog

    On reading "Women of Color In Academia Manifesto" the ideas presented seemed very similar to a section from a Chicano studies course I took last quarter. In the course, we learned how Chicano women faced this sort of glass ceiling in trying to achieve equal treatment within the workplace. Similarly, the manifesto talks about how women of color are told to go above and beyond in order to achieve equality within the system yet are presented with barriers preventing them from going beyond. Academia seems to be the only option for women of color to advance their socioeconomic status whereas their male counterparts have many other options. For example, in one of our readings for Chicano studies, there was a comparison between the route women and men take for upward movement. Men have the option of joining the army and be rewarded with better rights whereas women, at the time, could not join the army and were left with taking a low wage job or get a higher education.
    It was also interesting to see that "women of color" is the topic as women of color have different experiences compared to white women. In one reading, a Chicano women mentioned that she had more in common with an Algerian woman compared to a white woman. The idea is women of color go through a different experience compared to white women and for them to fight for just women's rights would only do women of color some justice. A question that comes to mind after reading the manifesto is, how do the experiences of women of different ethnicity differ? (such as different stresses that are present and ideologies)