The Road from Coorain

Conway was born on Coorain, a sheep station located on the plains of New South Wales. Her proud, hardworking parents loved each other and Coorain. Conway becomes a first rate farmhand, aiding her father while secretly obtaining education by listening to her brotherÆs tutors. Her parentsÆ struggles with the land take their toll when a severe drought hits. Her father commits suicide and Conway becomes the focus of her motherÆs world. During the time she lives in Australia until the time she leaves for school in America, Conway undergoes a series of events that result in a ôself-reconstitutionö as she matures. This reconstitution provides her with a new sense of self as well as a new sense of her native land and origins.

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ndence there. As she tells us, ôNeither would she have the opportunity at work to achieve a kind of independence. Australia was not ready for a strong professional woman unwilling to subordinate herself to cultural normsö (Hoy 2000, 451). Conway attempts to come to terms with the bias against women over time, but her efforts mainly result in the recognition that women are treated as second-class citizens in Australia. This is particularly true with respect to business. From the unequal wages held out to men and women in help wanted advertisements to snide remarks and humor directed at ôfemaleö doctors, she encounters palpable barriers to advancement for women. In her own experiences in trying to gain employment at a law firm, Conway learns that the independence she seeks for herself as a professional woman is virtually impossible in AustraliaÆs business world. Though she tries to find employment at a law firm, she is told outright that women are suitable for only certain types of law work, if law work at all. With her more mature perspective, she is more angry at having illusions about such realities than at the bias itself: Earlier in my life I might have jumped into the study of law confident that my merits would convin
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Approximate Word count = 3046
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page)