Chiharu Ito ASA002 A04 week3

   In “The Time to Fight Is Now”, the author claims that people are controlled as like a machine to achieve a role in the systematized social engineering, and that was used to keep the privileges of a certain race and gender. Colored people and women were excluded from the professional field of education regardless of their skills and abilities. Now we need to break this social system for race and gender equity. I guess the most familiar example of the effect of social engineering is the stereotype of gender and race. I have been told “girls should be domestic” and “Asian is good at math and using machines”, and each time I am impressed that I need to achieve the social images of “me”. That limits my behavior and thoughts and makes me a mechanism of social engineering. To get a higher education, I required to win the prejudice that higher education is not opened for women and the pressure that colored people cannot get a good job.

   According to “Women With Access to Higher Education Changed America—But Now They're Bearing the Brunt of the Student Debt Crisis”, the United States had broken the limitation of education for woman earlier than the other countries and we gain its benefits today as the advanced education, techniques, social systems, and others. On the other hand, female students have more debt and hard to reduce it because of the pay gap of gender. If we break the social engineering, gaps between gender or race will decrease and that will give benefits in the future society as like what happens after breaking the limit of education for women.

Question: Women were accepted to access higher education in 19^th century, but the discrimination and gaps still exist today. How long does it take to create a society without the power of social engineering?

References
Valverde, K.L.C. (2019). "Fight the Tower: Introduction. “The Time to Fight Is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue". Rutgers University Press. 
Kahn, Suzanne. (2020). "Women With Access to Higher Education Changed America—But Now They're Bearing the Brunt of the Student Debt Crisis", Times.
https://time.com/5797922/women-higher-education-history/