Essays on Housework

Performing household chores and taking care of children were traditionally the roles of women in the family because men were involved in jobs outside of the household so that they can earn money for the whole family. The distribution of roles between men and women was effective and reasonable in early America because women who became pregnant and gave birth to children were responsible for providing nurture and were unable to leave their children unattended to perform work outside of their homes. Although women are still more involved in performing family work such as household tasks or caretaking for ...

Italian Women Writers

An Antique’s Period Bias Amongst Women The Medieval Period dating 476 AD until 1000 AD was one of the most degrading times for women in any class. Men had it simpler than they did because they ended up dominating all of society and they looked down upon women, for example they were able to get jobs unlike women. Men and their accomplishments were noticed and women were not recognized for their hard work, whether it be taking care of the children or being a housewife. Their hard work wasn’t sophisticated like men being painters or architects, but ...

Earnings Differentials : Understanding the Gender Wage GapTerm Paper Workshop

In a May 2014 document released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics it was reported that although almost as many women as men are in the workforce (52% and 70.2%, respectively), males earn a higher median salary than females regardless of job type or race. Additionally, the most current census data show that women’s average earnings in the United States are only 71.3% of men’s (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014). This difference in earnings between men and women is not exclusive to the United States; however, it has been noted to be one of the largest ...

Macro-level theories approach the study of social life as it present in relationships among different systems in society, social systems, and institutional structures in society. It is the population in a social context that is that is at the center of importance. Macro-sociology theories analyze the pattern of different status within a population and their limitations on social relationships. Macro-level processes, therefore, concentrate on the impact of the social environment on individual' relations, and essential concepts are inequality, differentiation, and inequality. For this reason, particular macro theories have been applied to the population to intervene in societal issues. These ...

Project Questions:

Question 1 (750 words) The selected oral history transcripts indicate a great deal of continuity over this period in women's work patterns and experiences. While some may have held jobs at some point, it seems that there was a trend in giving up those positions in order to support their husbands in their careers and in family life once they got married. These roles were constantly changing throughout the years, as World War I and II came and went women seem to have taken on a bigger responsibility in the workplace, though after they ended their roles largely remained ...

Wuthering Heights, the story of Emily Brontë, is one of the most mysterious phenomena in world literature. Mostly overlooked by Brontë's contemporaries, the novel greatly amazed the opponents of academism in literature, and later became one of the best novels in the world. Furthermore, Wuthering Heights reflects the complicated philosophical beliefs of Emily Brontë. The story is peculiar for its image of creation which is a common characteristic of the author's art. What is more, the story is free from orthodox religious orientation. The main characters, Heathcliff and Earnshaw, deny the power of church and the common concepts ...

Usually family traditions and rules are passed from generation to generation. However, now young families have the opportunity to separate from their parents. At first glance, it seems right. However, life apart from older generations deprives young families from the benefits of the knowledge and wisdom in matters of child rearing. This way the influence of the older generation on children decreases with the strictness of the rules. Personally, I was raised in tough boundaries, I was taught to behave in a certain way and even now I can not cross some of behavior laws that were declared by my ...

Aubrey, J.S., & Frisby, C.M. (2011). Sexual objectification in music videos: a content analysis comparing gender and genre. Mass Communication and Society 14: 475-501.

In this article, Aubrey and Frisby (2011) create a coding system which measures the correlations between representations of women and sexual objectification. According to their findings, female artists provide a greater amount of sexual objectification in their videos, and are placed under greater pressure to appear more attractive and glamorous. They are also more likely to showcase sexually suggestive behavior and attitudes. This evidences adds to the argument that women are problematically presented in popular culture and media, as they are placed under a male gaze to be as attractive as possible; a woman’s sexuality is shown to be her primary feature, ...

How people perceive someone's sex or gender is definitely personified in many aspects of culture, from the media to subcultural traditions and rituals. Never is this a clearer case than in the Disney films, which feature heavily-marketed ‘princesses’ (e.g. Belle, Jasmine, Snow White) who are meant to personify the media messages aimed at girls. However, in 1998 the Disney animated film Mulan presented one of these ‘princesses’ in a different light; the titular character is a strong-willed, independent girl who wishes to stand up for herself and forge her own path. In this way, the portrayal of Mulan in ...

1. Introduction

In her book, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, Arlie Hochschild sheds light on the various strategies used by men and women in two-career marriages to manage the pressure of work and the needs of their family all at the same time. Hochschild, who is a professor at the University of California in Berkeley, documents how household work is divided by husbands and wives who both have full-time careers after they are done with their official jobs. Her book basically revolves around the story of eleven couples out of the fifty she had her research associates ...

1. Summary of the Paper The paper Expanding the Subject: Violence, Care, and (In)Active Male Citizenship by Sylvia Fuller, Paul Kershaw, and Jane Pulkingham discusses the proposed policy reorientation of active citizenship. The authors argued that the current social policy orientation is too focused on employment and dismisses violence against women as well as disregards men’s neglect of child-caring responsibilities. Their paper calls for the re-conceptualization of active citizenship to address and take into account these male dysfunctions (183-185). Using qualitative data from semi-annual open-ended interviews of seventeen mothers receiving income assistance in Vancouver, Canada, ...

Amongst mentally ill patients at high risk for early readmission, does the utilization of a multi-component transition care plan as compared to usual care help to improve early readmission rates?

Abstract

The early hospital readmission rate in a 30-bed psychiatric unit in California is 25%. This figure is higher than the 13% reported in the literature for high-income countries like the US (Vigod et al., 2013). Early readmissions are problematic as they are costly and disruptive to the personal and professional lives of patients and their family members. In addition, they are construed to be negative patient outcomes and negative indicators of ...

The issue of gender equality stands is a major concern on the global agenda although there has been a significant progress towards gender equality in most parts of the world. Women in many societies have limited access to healthcare and suffer pervasive threats from domestic violence. There is a substantial gender gap in the division of responsibilities, access to education and employment due to legal and political barriers . Effective strategies in achieving development and improvement of the status and living conditions of women lack due to injustice and ignorance towards women. The most important concern of achieving gender equality is through the ...

Even in our quickly advancing, modern world where it appears that men and women are on an ever-evening playing field, there are some parts of the world where women are still hidden in complete obscurity. Sometimes women are so undervalued in a family they are killed once they are born, or murdered because the dowry that came with them on their wedding night was not large enough. India is a place where to be a woman and to be afraid are sometimes synonymous. Forced into labor before their bones are even fully formed, and never allowed to make a real decision for themselves, ...

- Introduction Gender inequality in the US has gone through phases of change in the last five decades. The inequality in composition, type of work and wages between men and women is due to a number of factors. These varied explanations arise from varying situations existing at different periods. Researchers have viewed the problem from varied angles as well. There are a number of literature from the past to the present on this issue. A survey of the literatures allows us to divide the various explanations and analysis of gender inequalities in labor force into a few categories. We have viewed ...

Labor entails both the work done by an individual in their own households as well as that offered in the labor market for some kind of financial compensation. The participation in the labor market has been characterized by variations and skewed participation in terms of female labor market supply. However, it is essential to acknowledge the dramatic increase in the number of female participation in the past few decades, although the number of women falls behind that of men significantly. There are numerous benefits associated with the participation of women in the labor force such as the need to ...

Introduction

Cases of gender segregation are high in the labor market as it is fueled by discriminatory and gendered assumptions and practices. The market of labor does not match the “gender factory” for the purposes devaluing of work done by women and reproduction of institutionalized gender division of labor. This study will aim to explore the impact caused by the women workers entry into the paid job on the general gender segregation in the work place. This will ultimately indicate the dynamism and the changing characteristics of gender disparity. Gender inequality is majorly characterized by gender division in the ...

The fight for equality in the marriage institution dates back to the 1960s. Today, the world celebrates well over four decades of feminism. It is worth mentioning that the roles played by men and women, in building and managing a home have gradually changed over the years. When the search for equality began in the 1960s, researchers thought that the results would be instantaneous (Hill, 2011). They were wrong. The percentage of men that did not participate in the management of the home and performance of household chores was 85% in 1965. The percentage had dropped to 70% in the ...

Introduction

Simone de Beauvoir in her book 'The Second Sex' has explained how society constitutes a 'woman' by curtailing her freedom from childhood. Women are assumed by the global society "as an already constituted and coherent group with identical interests and desires, regardless of class, ethnic or racial location, implies a notion of gender or sexual difference or even patriarchy which can be applied universally or cross-culturally" (Mohanty 1988). Some stereotypical attributes attached with the essence of women by the society are to a great degree influenced by the contemporary media representation. According to Gerbner, viewers who spend a considerable amount of time watching ...

Since the beginning of time women have been placed on the lowest socio-economic strata. All societies have their preconceived ideas about the status of women. Women are now extremely qualified and are successfully taking care of their families. Attaining higher education does not prevent these women from having a spouse. They have decided to delay the process until they are qualified and have viable incomes. Of course some men who are intimidated by women’s achievements will shy away. That does not mean an educated woman is unable to find a spouse. Women then, in the quest to find desirable ...

After birth, most children are raised by two parents, a father and a mother. Both the parents have certain duties to fulfill when raising a child and both of them are expected to uphold their duties. A majority of parents who are raising their children in this modern era face numerous challenges because they do not assume equal responsibility. When one of the parents begins assuming more responsibility than the other, the shifting dynamics of modern life can lead to problems in raising a child. What many parents fail to realize is that when it comes to raising children, they both need to ...

Within the last few weeks, much debate has arisen because of the announcement by the CEO of Yahoo that workers who have been telecommuting will soon have to begin working only from Yahoo physical offices instead. The debate focuses on the reasons for this change in policy, but much of the debate has raised questions about the benefits of telecommuting. One need only look at the comments section of several online articles about this change at Yahoo to see that many people who telecommute assert that they work much more productively at home, while others cling to their beliefs ...

Off to the Household He Should Go

In the olden times, it was customary that the women in the family would attend to all the household responsibilities that also included reproduction and raising the children. The men usually took to providing the economic support for the family and were termed the bread winners! Who made such rules and why? Obviously the men, this dictation was passed on into generations. Men considered the women to be inferior in ethics, intellect and physical strength and claimed that women could not take to support the family financially. The men followed patriarchy or the male domination and held authority over ...

The roles of Women in a Family as mans best Companion

Women have important roles to fulfill in their families. Their duties have been greatly influenced by culture, myth and society standards. Today, their roles have evolved into a range of responsibilities. From the past, women have been at the forefront working alongside their male counterparts as they perform the housework and take care of their children. In fact, women in the recent days have worked hard to not only do works previously defined for them but have gone further to perform duties that people believe is meant for men. The idea that women can only perform housework while men are ...

Role and labor of a woman in American Society

Sex is the difference between females and males resulting from physical, natural and genetic distinctions. Gender is constructed basically on social and cultural conventions (Goldin 1983). A woman in today’s American Society is fairly equivalent to a man. In the early America society, women were always subjected to running household chores like, cooking and cleaning. They were challenged with opposing messages about their role in society. In the early days, stringent gender role discrimination gave men more power in public and civil world while women were placed with responsibility of maintaining the home. A notable transition from traditional roles ...

Judith Butler, in her book Gender Trouble, presumes that gender is not predetermined by sex, but instead is dictated by the gendered acts of people themselves. No universal gender exists, according to Butler; there is always a way to reinterpret and reassign behaviors to the masculine or feminine, and both biological men and women can exhibit male and female traits and identities. The assumption that there is an inherent identity of women as "female," according to Butler, is erroneous, and it does not need to be represented at all. No one can "be" a specific gender; it all lies upon a certain ...

The basic unit in the society has undergone many transformations over the decades to be what we can see today. The societal way of doing things continually portrays these changes, which today have gained acceptance as the basic rules for the basic unit. The entertainment sector has become one of the leading channels for reflecting and communicating these changes. For this reason, in order to understand the family setup of the old days, a trip down the memory lane is important and in this case, the article pays attention to earlier TV shows and compares them with current shows to ...

Gender Roles

Undeniably, besides age, gender is one of the general aspects on which the differences in status are based. Gender is a social creation which details the culturally and socially laid down roles that are followed by women and men. Arguably, our thinking is marks the final product of socialization. From the time of birth, we are being moulded to fit to what the society expects us to be. Moreover, it is through the process of socialization that we come to discover what is appropriate as well as inappropriate for both genders. “Gender roles” is a term that is used in this ...