Introduction
The occupational gender segregation is a strong feature of the labor market globally. This women segregation is a concern to the policy makers. This segregation has led to inefficiency in the economy and prevention of capable people to perform on their occupations better than others do. Women in particular have experienced the act of discrimination and have underestimated from some groups that joined the labor force. Not all women are equally to participate in the labor force. Their participation varies in marital status, social class, race and immigration background, the number and ages of children, education, region, and age. The feminists who used the term women expose the general conditions of women; however, the effect excluded the specific condition of the large and particular women population such as black women who work and struggle generally. To some extent, working-class women labeled through their own class position, experienced great burden to the assurance with implication for Black women. It is clear to middle-class White women that their discontent has linked to the position as women than their class. It only implies that working-class women suffered from their class condition. The root cause of women’s segregation in the labor market is discrimination in different aspects.
Women’s Work in the Labor Force
Historically, many single women participated in the labor force; almost all the women left their job when they married. There were also women even married worked intently in the labor market. Women worked in the labor force when the family cannot provide the basic needs and for other reason, a strong demand of women work force in the market. For example, during the World War 2, women replaced men who had joined the armed forces and filled the jobs created during the war. However, in the current time, women are less willing to participate in the labor force in response to the demand implemented in the market. The changed of labor force has led to large numbers of women who remain segregated to the lowest paid jobs or least attractive jobs.
Specifically, the segregation of women in industries and occupations has characterized by low requirements for recognized skills, low compensation, low prospects for advancements, and low productivity. In addition, some occupations switched to women-dominated from me-dominated level; however, most instance, women still found in the bottom heap in the labor market.
Black Women and Work
The myth of the Black inferiority associated with the myth of white femininity and feminine weaknesses has served to incomprehensible idea of what Black women think about it. In the political knowledge of devastation of the economic exploitation has rooted in Black women as often mistaken as lack of concern on feminists’ issues, the contradiction between Black Nationalism and Black women’s Liberation, and the assumption that Black women do not see the issues as separated from Black men. Madeline McDonald said that, the category of gender has constructed socially and class and gender relations conjoined in the development of capitalism. The male dominance over women strengthened the structure of class domination and as evident to the educational system. The private or public capital usefulness positioned in the source of unpaid labor or hidden labor that women represent. The unmediated claims of women within the construct of social relations did not belong to the other level, unseen in the political nor economic; the case is personal and domestic or even worse.
Conclusion
The work of women in the labor market have paralleled to their work at home. Their compensation from work in the industry has no difference in their domestic work. Most undervalued women have no power as men do, even women’s’ skills do not represent power. The work of women in the labor force is invisible in part because the hiring, promotion, and training in the labor force or the selection mostly based on appearance than skills. Most of the time in the place of domestic or institutional domestic work, Black women rejected disrespectful treatment or even asserted themselves, as employers would say that they are part of the family. This treatment viewed as unpaid labor that stands for familial duty or kindness. Even professional Black women like nurses usually assigned in heavy wards. According to a worker that says, “The light wards are for white and the heavy wards are for black” . This is a bad supremacy against the Black women. As suggested that Black and white women should examine and expose the specificity of the ideological form of Black femininity and White femininity to be able to build the global movement in a positive manner. Either women or men, Black or White women, every person is equal politically, economically, and racially.
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