Stud She's A Slut Summary

Jessica Valenti’s book “He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut” highlights the many double standards men and women have and continue to face today. As a free spirited and down to earth feminist, she challenges these stereotypes and educates others on the negative aspects they have on people’s daily life. Issues ranging from wage pay gap, to sexism, racism, etc., there is nothing that makes her comfortable to talk about. In this book, I resonated closely with three chapters she wrote: “He’s a Hipster, She’s a Ho”and “He’s Getting an Education, She’s Getting in the Way”; respectively, these chapters discuss how women and men physically present themselves in society, and their education.

In chapter 9: “He’s a Hipster, She’s a Ho”, Valenti describes the recurring

Here, Jessica Valenti hones in on how women represent the majority of the population who go into higher education post high school (“As of 2005, a little over 57 percent…” Valenti, 102). However, she also explains that the more advanced the degree gets, you see less women in those fields. This is because men are highly favored in higher work positions in the workforce, thus fails to motivate enough women to achieve any professional or advanced degrees. I do find it slightly intimidating to pursue an advanced degree in the near future, just for the simple fact that some still believe that the corporate world is a man eat man world. If there is a battle between, then there will surely be one with women and retaining that glass ceiling above us. For example, I work as a pharmacy technician at a pharmacy company. Some of my fellow colleagues are also female technicians who are much older than me and having been doing this same job for years. Sometimes, there are even complaints that there is no way to rise up in this industry, which is relatively true. When I ask, however, why they do not go back to school to get a higher degree, they tell me that they do not feel smart enough or it is not “their type of job” which is being in the order entry field or even a pharmacist, male dominated fields. Their preconceived mindset is that they