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While in my women studies class at Nassau Community College, Jessica Valenti, the editor of www.feministing.com came to speak to the students. My class went to see her speak which really made the class, including myself, think and figure out our views and possible reasons for being a feminist. About two weeks later, I realized that I had to start working on my final project for the class. I remembered that it was an action project, which essentially meant that I had to do something that got the word out to a large group of women and men. However, I did not just want to stand around school sharing information. I wanted to spread the word quicker about a women studies topic that no one really thinks of that often but can be seen in a family household everyday. The topic I chose was not even brought up in my class the whole semester, but I sincerely feel that everyone should know about it. I wrote this paper on the concept of generation gaps between women and the way I approached this idea was by giving a questionnaire to my grandmother and mother as well as answering the questions myself. Then I compared and contrasted all the statements from three generations in my family. With the compilations of views and generations, I hope that not just women, but everyone can open their eyes to the elder family members and appreciate their views while the elder members try to do the same for the younger generations. Lastly, even though this concept relates to men as well I feel that women have had much more changes throughout the generations than men, which will be seen in the responses of my grandmother, Ruth Eagen, and my mother, Valerie Eagen.