It impacts the way people behave in their surroundings. Shaw and Lee point out that people approach race, gender, class, age identity differently based on “their social position in various structures of inequality and privilege” (47). From my cultural context, my identities are heterosexual, middle class, female, able-bodied, and non-white, and most of them are privileges in my country. One identity I have as a social oppression in this country is race. I have no racial privilege because I have a different skin color than the people who establish social privilege in this country. However, the most important identity that I am disadvantaged in both the United States and my country is the fact that I am a woman. In many societies women have long struggled to gain equal rights with men, and the society I am in includes those of us who have lived there for 20 years. It has been very difficult circumstances for women to struggle with as society has been shaped by history on how a woman should live and behave. Women continued to be oppressed and limited by gender and class as they were considered physically and mentally inferior to men. This connection between women's class and gender still remains in this society, even though many women have been given equal rights