ANNABELLE PFEFFER
“Wed-ucation”
2014
4:44
This video is a feminist investigation in to my conflicting everyday identities as a female and as a college student. Today women are allotted equal opportunity as men to higher education. However social pressures that encourage women to occupy traditional gender roles still prevail. Despite the increase in female college graduates, many of the undergraduate degrees that are less valued in the job market are often labeled as female. Married men are also more hirable than married women because possible employers seen women as possibly becoming pregnant a few years after being hired. These are perhaps reasons why despite being highly educated women who enter into the system of marriage tend to still occupy the domestic sphere while men fill the role of the primary breadwinner. In this video I provoke a question of why bother getting college educated as a female if the prevailing social force might one day make our education obsolete?
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