Seminar 1 Journal In this week’s reading there was one sentence that stuck out at me the most. “Women are considered a minority even though they do not exhibit all the characteristics outlined earlier”, (Schaefer, p.8). I would have never thought that women would still be considered a minority. A number of years ago I would have believed that, because women never used to work. The male was the sole provider of the household and the woman would stay home and take care of the kids and everyday items, such as cleaning and cooking. It hurts to think about my wife as a minority. She works full-time and a mother full-time. Her day consist of waking up at 4:30 in the morning and do her workout then it’s a race to get ready before the kids wake up. She gets the kids ready and drops them off at daycare. After daycare she works 8-9 hours a day then picks the kids up after work. She comes home and often time cooks dinner, cleans-up, and packs her lunch and other things for the next day. When that’s all done she then focuses on getting the kids settled down and ready for bed. The only free time or down time she gets is after the kids are asleep and usually it’s only about 30-60 minutes, because by then she is tired herself. My wife, does these task on a daily basis and for her to be considered a minority just isn’t fair to her. I appreciate everything she does, because without her I wouldn’t have much time for my school work. Women need to be treated the same as any man in today’s society, because they are just as hard of worker’s if not for some harder worker’s than most men.