Victoria Noriega, lecturer in Psychology, delivers a humorous talk on being a woman. She compares her own life opportunities with those of her grandmother, who was an immigrant from Sicily and who married a man not of her own choosing; and of her mother, who deduced from watching movies of the 1940s and 1950s that the way to get ahead in life was to marry a rich man. "So she married my father, who made $25 a week and had a car." Noriega describes how her mother made sacrifices so that she could learn to be a wife and mother herself one day; and how she was married for 12 years; and how when she got divorced, she became a single parent with no education and no credit cards. She was able to go back to school, however, because of the social changes that feminists had achieved.
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