Feminism Interview

For the interview I asked three of my co-workers. A girl named Ashlee who is 21. She is a college student and a mother. A guy named Trevor who is 19 and also a college student. And a woman named Gail who is in her 50’s and she is also a mother of 3. I found that they had very different answers, but there was some common ignorance between all of them.

Interview Questions
1. What is feminism?
2. Do you consider yourself a feminist? Why of why not?
3. What are women’s issues and interests that feminists would be considered with?
4. What stereotypes do others categorize feminists?
5. Is there a need for feminism today? Why of why not?


Ashlee

1. Women that fight for the rights of other women
2. No, because she doesn’t get involved with feminism and honestly doesn’t really care.
3. Equal rights in sports or work
4. Cocky, over-confident
5. No, because things are pretty much equal between men and women

Trevor

1. Women being defensive about their place in society
2. No, because he doesn’t look at women as any less equal to men
3. Workman’s rights, job roles, political positions, voice in politics, and overall equality with males
4. Lesbians, female talk show hosts, women who work in the same field as males (ex: factories), women politicians
5. No, due to the fact that women are capable for applying for and getting any job a man can. Feminism should be a thing of the past because of the great strides women have made.

Gail

1. Women’s rights
2. Yes, because when she was younger she “burned her bra”- her mother was actually going into the workforce when it was very uncommon
3. Equal treatment issues, freewill
4. Menopause makes women crazy
5. Yes, so we can be treated more equally, because we still aren’t.

Overall, none of them seemed to be overly confident on the subject and depending on what type of demographic they fell under pretty much determined their beliefs and assumptions.