Restructuring the Building

I went to the lecture tonight by Ellen Bravo, expecting to be bored and not able to understand the speaker like all the other lectures I've been to this semester. However, she ended up having some very good points and kept the entire lecture interesting and somewhat entertaining! Although I've heard a lot of the feminist stuff before, she presented it all in a different way, rather than saying poor women are being beaten up by all the horrible men, she showed the change that is needed as a way to improve society for everyone. What really got me was that, out of the 167 countries in the world, there are only four that do not incorporate paid leave at most if not all jobs, one of these four is America. Supposedly America is such a great country, the land of opportunities, but people from other countries feel sorry for Americans that have to bring their children up in a society that doesn't allow for both family time and a good job. In class, we have been discussing the racial inequalities that affect our society, and while that is an important issue that needs to be solved, we need to realize that is not the only inequality taking place in our society.