What is the article about? Who does it involve? Why did you choose this article? How does this news article relate to the story we are reading- The Friday Everything Changed?
The article that I chose is about a female who experienced gender inequality while growing up. Her name is Dame Stephanie, who was born in Vera Buchthal in the German city of Dortmund in 1933. Dame Stephanie excelled in school, mostly in mathematics. Since she was very good at math, she went to a local boys’ school for math lessons because girls learned things at a lower level than the boys did. Dame Stephanie also wanted to go to a university to study more math, but that course wasn’t available for women. Therefore, she started to work at the Post Office Research Station (PORS) in 1951. At that time, she had changed her name to Stephanie. Stephanie enjoyed working, and at work, she also fell in love with her future husband named Derek Shirley, and she was ground down by gender inequality of all time. Stephanie’s boss didn’t put her up for promotion because she was a female. This article can relate to the story we are reading, The Friday Everything Changed, because Alma Niles and the other girls cannot go for the water bucket because people assumed that girls were “weak.” In this article about Stephanie’s gender inequality experience, Stephanie wasn’t allowed to put up for promotion because she was a female who was “weak.” Long story short, they both experience gender inequality.