A women’s past

There has been radical change in women’s lives in recent years, from having Hillary Clinton running for the presidency of the United States of America, to marital rape becoming a crime. Women’s lives have become more liberated, more open, more demanding and more productive. Today one can see women who are CEO’s of major companies, like Meg Whitman CEO of eBay, and women in powerful political position like Condolezza Rice, Secretary of State and first African-American women to serve that position. Unlike some time ago, where women were homemakers, some still are, and were kept inside the home raising children. Women were seen as the ones who are to remain in the home and maintain it, wearing dresses and having their hair done while they mop the floor or cook dinner.
Even with so much advancement in women’s rights, education, and overall lives some women’s lives do not change much. Margarita Sanchez from Telchatichi, Jalisco in Mexico was one of those women. Sanchez was born on October 18, 1939 and even at her age she states that her life is not much different from what it was in earlier years. She was not one to be involved in politics or even knowing much of what was going on in the world. This woman was a homemaker and worker that is all she did most of her life. When she remembers her childhood, her mother was a homemaker and her father a barsero, in her times that meant her father would come to the United States of America to work then go to Mexico after sometime. There were seven children, including her, it would have been fifteen but her mother had a few still born and some died in infancy.
She had a striking resemblance to what was called “family values”, as refereed by the women in the anti-feminist movement (DuBois and Dumenil, 649). Her life changed when at just seven years old her mother died, on the same anniversary of her mother’s death a year earlier, her father passes, and a year later on the same anniversary her grandmother died. This left all the children with no one to care for them, so one of her late mother’s sister took on the responsibility, which was difficult because at the time her aunt had eight children of her own. She being the youngest of all her cousins and siblings did not mean she did not have to work, at sixth grade she dropped out of school and began working. A decade later, her aunt brought her to the United States where one of her bothers was in San Jose.
When Margarita Sanchez saw the U.S. it was different from what she thought, it seemed so rushed to her and no one seemed to have time, women were wearing pants, which she had never in her life seen a women do and women wore as what she stated was exaggerated makeover.

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