The first time I ever left my family to become a wife, mother was when I was very young, this marriage unfortunately did not last long due to abusive relationship and not stable income. So I decide to separate, move in back with my parents and persuade my education so I can give my daughters better life, stability and become very independent myself. Because I thought was never re-marry again and I didn’t want to depend of my parents for the rest of my life neither. I went back to school to finish high school and right after I graduated from high school I met my new husband and then I came to the U.S. I had family here but everything was still very new to me. I was scared, still very dependent of my husband, I didn’t speak the language, everything was new to me and it was the first time I had ever been away from my family. Thank God I still had someone who was willing to taking care of me, my two little girls and living expenses. Leaving home at the age of twenty-three, even thought I was married twice at that age, with kids to go on and start my own life, in another country, there were many things I wasn’t prepared for. I couldn’t afford to go to college, and even if I could, I really had no idea of what I wanted to do with my life anyway. My decision to go right into the work force was, at the time, a logical one. I have left my girls back in Panama for the first year and I was focused on trying to make money to bring them with me. I figured I could find a job that would pay me well enough to save money and bring them here, and to afford to have all the things I never can buy for them while I was with their dad, and while I was finishing my high school. Having been raised during an era when the rhetoric was all about women being equal to men in the workplace, I truly believed that I could do anything a man could do, and deserved to be paid the same for the same work. But of course with a high school diploma I would never get far enough to make my dreams come true. I found a job as housekeeping for the Army Lodging on post make me reflected that an education was the most important thing I have to poses in order to become a successful woman and a very good example for my kids. So since my English was not very good I took a lot of English course. Then when my girls finally came to United States (nine month after me) my English has to become more intense so I can help them with homework and school assignments. Then I started working in other places my fellow employees were all men, and I was placed in the uncomfortable position of having to prove that I not only could do the job, but was also one of the guys. Gender differences are more readily apparent in some workplaces than others. While there are the obvious physical differences and capabilities, there are also the differences in how each gender deals with perceived problems, whether it is pertaining to the job at hand, or the interaction with fellow employees. By being the only female in a male dominated workplace, I had numerous problems to overcome. The most prevalent one was sexual harassment. I felt that I was treated as an “object”, one that had been hired simply to provide enjoyment for the men.