As a white woman, I definitely experience privilege in the world. As a woman, I also experience some marginalization. I think there are definitely things that I experience differently being a woman and things that I may be overlooked for. Looking through the history that I was taught in school, my ethnic and cultural background is definitely represented well, however, looking at history now with my own children I definitely see a lacking of representation of other ethnicities and cultures. Being a classroom teacher I can control what I present to my students to a certain extent and try my best to represent a variety of cultures and ethnicities. If given the opportunity, I would find more materials that could be presented by other teachers as well.
