Mini Project-2

For my second Mini Project I knew that I wanted to get other student's opinions on the matter. I went back and forth on including males or not, but after talking to the first girl that I interviewed I knew that girls would probably have some really interesting things to say so I didn't want to short them of anything by excluding most of the interview to keep the project more concise. 

I recorded my voice on what the three girls said because most people don't like the sound of their voice over a recorded media. It also, made it more appealing to the girls to go through with doing the interview. Also, I added clips of the song I'm a Woman by Peggy Lee to bounce off the song I included in my first project. Maybe for my third project I'll add something a little more contemporary? hah

When I began deciding on who I wanted these interviews to come from I questioned if high school, elementary, college, or all of them combined would be the best way to get what I wanted across. I asked around and decided on keeping it in the realm of college and more specifically UNCC students. It was really interesting to see that each of the girls had a different experience. I found that there were some grey areas on what discrimination based on gender meant to each girl.

Reflections of the three girls that I interviewed:
Megan Eastergard- Megan and I have been friends for awhile, but we have never talked about the topic that I'm exploring for this project before the interview. Megan had a hard time relating to this topic. For her, it was not something that she really experienced much of in her life. It was a topic that she didn't see as being too prevalent in today's time for our culture, but is a serious matter in different countries. Being an international business major, I believe that it helped her tie in the connection between gender discrimination in different areas.

Michelle Booth- Michelle is in my writing group in class. Michelle had personal experiences in high school of gender discrimination that I loved hearing about. She talked about times when teachers had really crossed a boundaries based on her and classmates being females. These stories were really interesting to me because I had never experienced anything like what she described before.

Bristol Weekly- Bristol was an intentional pick for this interview. I knew that she was a Engineering major and I figured that if any field would show discrimination it would be one where women are vastly out numbered by men. She told a story of her first semester in college and in the engineering program. I have yet to experience any discrimination based on gender at the college level so it was really interesting to me to hear that subtle forms of gender discrimination are still occurring at this level of academia.


I really enjoyed talking with these girls about this topic. I loved hearing all of the stories and opinions based around this sometimes controversial topic. I hope you guys enjoy :)