Yuqi Hu A04 Week 3

After reading "The Time to Fight Is Now":Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed," Go Rogue, I understand more about the situation of women, especially Asian American women, in the academia. The authors depict academia as a small society that everyone has their own class. They said, "Academia, though it often appears to be the location of critiques of the social order, also functions as the mechanism through which mass social engineering projects—based on the artificial structuring of race, gender, and class—have delineated hierarchies of power and abuse through notions of inherent superiority and inferiority." Women, as a group that is always being underestimated, can do more and better jobs than many men. Moreover, Asian American women are always in the "lower classes" in academia because they are minorities in American society. Managers almost all tend to recruit people who have a higher diploma. In the picture, we also can see that on average people who have a master's degree can earn about $1k monthly more than people who have a bachelor's degree. But I wonder if people who have a master's degree is really better than those who do not have.

Discrimination against females is not only in academia but also in daily lives. There are so many jobs that men think women cannot do well like drivers. But the fact is that women can do, and even way better than men. Fortunately, more and more people devote themselves to the feminist movement like our professor. I believe discrimination will be completely eliminated in the future.

Reference:
Why is a Masters Degree Important? (2018, February 28). Retrieved from https://www.gradschools.com/get-informed/why-grad-school/why-masters-degree-important
Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis. “Introduction. “The Time to Fight Is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue.”