 LECTURE NOTES  35% of single mother households are living in poverty.  WOC, once convicted, cannot obtain future welfare benefits, including food stamps or housing assistance.  Poor women are increasingly criminalized due to welfare policies.  Women (all) earn 77 cents for every $1 men make. Black women earn 63 cents and Latinas 57 cents (also quoted as 72 and 60 cents).
Many negatives still rise from Title IX, such as who coaches the teams. Since women are allowed to play in sports, should women be allowed to coach sports? This interesting question has brought conclusions that still show the inequality of women being “doubted” of coaching a specific sport team. According to _Sport in Society: Issues and _Controversies, it states, “From 2000 and 2002, 326 out of 361 new jobs for head coaches of women’s teams went to men” (Coaxley, Chapter 8). This is definitely a downgrade of women coaches for organizing and directing a sports team.
Let’s first start of by saying that America has yet to have a female president, and let’s also state the fact that as I studied in class, women make up only 17% of national legislatures worldwide. Now why is this? The only explanation I can come up with is the world isn’t ready yet for us. But besides from my own personal opinion, Patricia Hill Collins focuses in her article, “Gender, Black Feminism, and Black Political Economy” how the experiences of Black women help people to understand the high rates of poverty and inequality. She also talks about how categories such as gender, race and class are not “free standing distinct systems” but instead “mutually constructing” intersecting systems, which doesn’t play much to her favor since she is a black female.
Sondra Douglas English Honors Gifted- 4th Mrs. Hotlets March 4, 2014 Gender Inequality in the Workplace Gender inequality is the unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on gender. Over the last 50 years, the involvement of women and fairness has been a problem. Economically, women, particularly poor women and African American women did not fare well during this time period. Inequality grew as wages remained depressed and tax cuts to the wealthy failed to “trickle down” to the bottom of the economic ladder where nearly half of the female labor force was concentrated (Justin Karr pg. 41).
Most people don’t like the idea of that, because when someone has their mindset on something they don’t change their mind and are stubborn about it, and that is when dissent comes in and changes the other persons mind. This reveals the good side of dissent, which shows that dissent is better then disagreement. Women eventually got their way with the law, and were able to vote. If they had not dissented against it, it probably would of taken a lot longer then it did for the 19th amendment to be written. Rose Parks and the African Americans she was with also changed the way that they were treated, and they are now just as equal as any other white person living
Current Issues in Cultural Diversity and Hispanic Nursing Description of Issue Hispanics are the fastest-growing demographic population in the United States and yet they only make up only 5% of the nursing workforce. Hispanic nurses are often overlooked due to prejudice and are usually not appointed to positions of leadership in nursing. Many of these nurses are not returning to school to further their education beyond an Associated of Science in Nursing because they feel that regardless of their education they will remain unappointed to supervisory positions. Furthermore, there is a lack of Hispanic mentors in higher education and in nursing leadership positions consequently creating a vicious cycle. To help eliminate health care disparities, recruiting and retaining Hispanic nursing students is a necessary step.
Also, some adults do not end up getting married, almost 19 million Americans (Benokraitis, n.d., 3). Furthermore, children under the age of 18 living with two married parents went from 77 percent to 67 percent (Benokraitis, n.d, 3). That finding shows the increase of divorce among Americans. The article, “The Changing Landscape of Family”, states that women are spending less time with their children than before and there is a decrease in the number of children per family. This is partially because women have started to go back to work and the economy in the present day is not very stable so supporting a bigger family is not easily done.
Also around half of these people have disabilities that prevent them from working. It surprises me to find out almost 100% of welfare recipients are women versus the rest of the poverty society including some old aged veterans who aren’t receiving support. A person who sacrificed their life for their country should be getting aid by all circumstances. Another disappointing statistic I found interesting was that if you “qualify” for benefits, the low average pay per month was $350 from the government. Few recipients manage to obtain a bigger amount to support their families which I believe is totally unfair and immoral.
A woman working in the same job as a man will usually earn less, despite the fact that she may have the same or better training, education, and skills required for the job ("Study Shows Female Managers in Britain Earn Less than Men, and Equality Could Be 57 Years Away." 2010). Women are consistently discriminated against in the workplace. Women only make 60 percent or less than their male counterparts in the same job position (Louis, 2010). Throughout history men are seen as the “strong/tough ones”; the belief is that they should be paid more than women in order to support their families (Loney, 2005).
They point out that: empowering women is also an indispensable tool for advancing development and reducing poverty. Equal pay for equal work is one of the areas where gender equality is rarely seen; all too often women are paid less than men for doing the same work. This is one of the reasons that the majority of the world’s poor are women: around 70 per cent of the people who live in extreme poverty, on less than one dollar a day, are girls and women. Suffrage, the right to vote, is another area of gender equality that still does not extend to all the women in the world. Saudi Arabia does not give women the right to vote; in the USA right wing commentators say that women should never have been given the right to vote.