Abstract
This is a short analysis of Deborah Boe’s, “Factory Worker” and description of women in the work-place.
Deborah Boe’s poem, Factory Worker is an enjoyable one that depicts the typecast of the eighties. In the poem it is clear that Deborah is working in a place that is usually a man’s domain. She is good at her job and she does so well; she hardly thinks about what she is doing while she is performing her duties. She does not particularly like her job, she just do it; “All day I stand here, like this,/over the hot-glue machine,” These lines suggest that she tolerates her job. She has no friends and there is no social interaction either and she likes that, she can daydream without interruption. The manliness of the job develops her muscles and she is proud of her strength and muscles. The reader can conclude that Deborah is a black woman due to her belief of the supernatural, her grandfather’s ghost. “I was remembering last night,/ when I really thought my grandpa's soul/ had moved into the apartment,/ the way the eggs fell, and the lamp/broke, like someone was trying/to communicate to me,” Deborah’s religion seems to be one of those coming out of Africa.
I have worked with someone who was just like Deborah. I was working in a assemble line situation, and I never forget her she walked like a man and she looked like a man, she had muscles like a man and anything the men did she could do it too. Her name was Sue and we dubbed her a boy name Sue from the Johnny Cash Song, “A boy Name Sue.” Sue did her job well and you never find her idle, she was pleasant but she was not one for conversation. She kept her station clean and she never asked the men for help. Whether or not she was showing off, no one could tell, she had the same look on her face if she were lifting ten pounds or if she were lifting fifty pounds. She did not ask for help and no one offered her help. Sue came to work on time and she did a full day’s job. Apparently not only Sue and Deborah feel that women are just as good as men in performing in the work-place. Natalia Sinitsa.says on Pravda.Ru, “Business women suffer mainly from two social prejudices. First, they are considered less qualified, and secondly, if a woman takes "male" traits, she is viewed as an arrogant upstart” (2011). Investopedia an online magazine says that: “It is almost 50 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, but there is still a real discrepancy in pay between men and women” (2012)- The time has come for men to acknowledge that women are just as good as men in the workforce.
Bibliography
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Natalia Sinitsa {17.08 2011). “Man's world refuses to take women seriously even in 21st century.” http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/17-08-2011/118771-women_society- 0/
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