Why I am Interested in Women's Studies

As a Math and French major at the Univeristy of Redlands I do not spend much time thinking about sociological theory and how it is related to Women's Studies. Although I am interested in studying the views of others who traditionaly do not hold the same values on life that I hold so I can widen my horizons. I feel that studying Women's Studies in a time when oppression towards women is not practiced like it was 70 years ago is important because of how hard it is to identify with what women from that time period went through because America is now so gung-ho about equal opportunities that I have not been expsoed to that type of life. As a female majoring in a typically male dominated field, I do not recieve any reservation from professors or fellow students as to whether I will be able to contribute to the future of mathematics. I like studying the historical side of Women's Studies over the theoretical because I feel that it is important to learn where we came from, where we are now and how we got there so we do not end up where we started.