This is the second time I have created a free blog. This is also the second post I have ever made. Needless to say the last one did not work out so well...Round Two of internet blogging all in the name of an A.

I titled my blog based on the notion that males and females need to coexist in order to keep the human race in existence. It is the concept that you can't have one without the other, the peanut butter and jelly of life if you will. However, I also think that there is a unique perspective that comes from being a man versus being a woman. To define ourselves as inseparable would be taking for granted that there is no difference. So males, you receive the honor of being part of the word female, and females you get the extra two letters that separates you from the other half (a little less than technically) of the population.

I am a senior this year double majoring in political science and justice studies. I picked this course because I have taken several other women's studies classes and I would like to continue furthering my knowledge about the subject. I hope that this class is able to deepen my understanding of how women are treated in the work force and how this could potentially apply to me one day. I also am determined to find out why such an advanced society in 2009 is still grappling with the idea of equality between men and women.

When I first chose to study justice I picked it because it matched well with the political science degree. Upon my first course in the major I realized I had no concept of what justice actually meant. For now I like to think that I have a distributive outlook on the justice system meaning that I believe in changing people for the better to create a better and more informed society. Currently most of our criminal justice system works on a retributive view where we punish those who have committed a past crime. The idea is that a punishment will deter future crimes. However, as many of us can see this is not ultimately the best approach and in fact has not lead to a satisfying decrease in crime. A distributive program would help people, particularly those who have committed blue collar crimes, get their lives back on track by sending them to rehabilitation centers that get people started in a real job and a real home for example. I think this applies to women in the work force on a level that we seem to deal with problems after they have already occurred. Instead, we should be proactively supporting women in the work force in order to create an environment where women are respected for their skills at the same rate men are. To sum up, I do not think it is solely men's fault that women are in the position they are but rather it is a collective thinking of current society that keeps us from moving on from the "sex wars" and appreciating work for what it is-work.