http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/us/22sergeant.html?scp=5&sq=education%20for%20women&st=cse
In class, we were discussing the role of women today and certain restrictions women still are forced to deal with. While this may be so, they are in no way forced to accept it. While reading the NY times today, I stumbled upon this article about a woman who fought her way to a top drill sergeant position. She is the first woman to gain this position in the military and I foresee her to not be the last. One side note that I would like to mention is in the beginning of the article James Dao states that, “It may come as no surprise that the Army’s new top drill sergeant idolizes Gen. George S. Patton Jr., has jumped out of planes 33 times, aces every physical training test and drives a black Corvette with “noslack” vanity plates.” Later he concludes that this new drill sergeant is a woman. I connected this idea of attention grabbing method to the second day of class when we discussed the idea of transgender and what really are the differences between man and woman. The societal stereotypes set up by overgeneralizations still are so recognized and powerful that women are unable to be drafted or fight in the first line of combat. Based on the finding in this article, Teresa King seems like the kind of girl that could hold her own in the front line of combat. This article in a way is a break through for women, being that a woman has conquered the sexist barrier in the military, yet at the same time reminds ourselves that society and especially the military, still believes that women are incapable of such duties that men in the past have repeatedly performed.