My focus for the third, and last, paper was on gender and the American Dream. More specifically it was how the inequality between women and men has made women believe in the American Dream less and less. The chapter that I used from The American Dream in the 21st Century is the 5th chapter, “Whose Dream? Gender and the American Dream” by Sandra L. Hanson. I wanted to research gender and the American Dream because I am a woman and I am curious to how my American Dream is different from a Man’s American Dream. Throughout writing this essay I have learned a lot about how unfairly women are treated compared to men and how this affects each women's individual American Dream. Hanson discusses gender divide in many ways including race, class, opportunity, politics, education and earnings. By discussing all of this Hanson can show how not only gender effects the way the American Dream is viewed but so do other factors like race for example. Hanson talks about the idea of how me...