Interview with modern American woman Ora Frasier Harrison was born in the small town of Cleora, Oklahoma in the early thirties. Ora has an appropriately large view of the world. Even when Ora realized her talent for working with numbers didn’t jive with her talent for being a member of the female gender, she journeyed on, appropriating a large view of the opportunities that await her. Ora’s persistence to be acknowledged in a male dominated profession coupled with her experiences before and after the women’s liberation movement has made her a model of an American woman that has overcome professional and societal oppression based on her gender.The women’s liberation movement affected Ora mostly in her professional pursuit. Her antipathy with societies treatment of women in the workforce spurned her desire to shatter the glass ceiling of her own chosen profession, accounting. Her feelings were consistent with others at the time. An excerpt from the article “Women’s Liberation” describes how women felt about their place in the American workforce; “The job market uses women as scabs-to work for less pay due to their lack of self-esteem and to keep down the level of labor struggle due to their traditional lack of militancy and collective spirit.” Ora was lucky enough to find support in a collective spirit called the American Association for Women in Accounting. Here she was exposed to women in leadership positions and mentors who had faced the same stonewalling from their male counterparts as she had.A large sentiment was brewing at the time of her entrance into the professional world. Commonly felt by women, “..at its root there lies a clear perception that bourgeois society offers no genuinely interesting or fulfilling work or ways of living. From amidst this generalized discontent, women see especially clearly the dearth of opportunities for them in society’s mainstream...
