Today, I was thinking about the term "The American Dream". Every time someone asks me about how I what I want out of life, I would always say "The American Dream". While thinking about this concept, I thought about what it really meant because all I knew was that it was something good. After doing a little research,  I learned that it was a life where the husbands worked, the mother stayed home and took care of the kids, and a townhouse with a picket white fence. This was so ironic because that is exactly what the women did not want in the first wave of feminism. The concept "The American Dream" would have been seen as the good life before I entered Women's and Gender Studies Class. I would have been so happy to live in a nice house with my husband and children and not have to go to work. However, after taking the class I realized that is not what I would have wanted. I do not want to sit in the house all say simply because it is boring, I would feel to dependent on a man to take care of me.  I want to be a independent woman, a great mother, great wife, and the best at doctor I could ever be. I believe that "The American Dream" should be changed. It should not rely on a woman being a housewife, but both the woman and their partner to live equally independent lives.