After out lecture with Mrs. O'Connell, I walked away with an understanding of the great affects that television had on second waive feminism in the 70's and 80's. During these times women were clearly struggling to change the perception that their only purpose was to mother children and to be a house wife. It was evident that television portrayed women in the stereotypical house-wife role in many popular shows during the 60's. We watched several clips of different tv shows that showed women cleaning and taking care of their husbands in the introductions. However this began to change in the 70's and 80's. As women began to push more for their rights and gain more power in society, their portrayal of their roles in society began to change. People started to realized that women were not just house wives and mothers in reality, so their characters in tv shows changed. After the tv shows began to implement working women in their shows the employment rate began to increase. There is no direct-correlation between the two, but I believe that without the television shows the employment rate and perception of women would have been much more slow to change. 

My experience with women and their relationship with television was minimal before this lecture. I had learned about the struggle that women go through in the industry after Dr. Palmer's lecture, however I did not know much about second waive feminism and its correlation with television. If somebody were to ask me about how I thought women were portrayed on television in the 60's I would not have known that they were basically on portrayed as house wives and mothers. All of the old television shows that I have seen were similar to some of the ones from the 70's and 80's that we watched. They consisted of women trying to impact impact in the working force and society. I just failed to realize before this lecture, that there was a time period before this when women had zero opportunity to make an impact in the work force and society. I enjoyed this lecture a lot because I think that television has a tremendous impact on society today, and it was interesting to see it's impact in history.