In addition Black women no longer defined the nature of their work. This shift in work would later stereotype Black women and contribute to the economic oppression of Black females. In the period following the Civil War, the economic prospects for Black women did not change. While paid, the work was of a domestic nature or agricultural. The collective nature of Black communities still predominated as opposed to the white "capitalist market economies of competitive, individual, industrial and monopoly capitalism."
Within my own workplace I have noticed that the some residents intolerant of people who suffer from Dementia. This is based on a stereotype that Dementia is a stigma. Structural discrimination reflects the way in which society allows some groups to retain more power than others. As such, some groups do not have the power to change the stereotypes that exist about themselves. For example, members of black and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately represented in low wage or unemployment statistics, reflecting their low status and position in society.
Overall it could therefore be argued that rather than partners becoming more equal, women now have to carry a ‘dual burden’, whereby she is responsible for two jobs of unpaid or paid labour. Factors such as patriarchy and conforming to a gender script will lead to these divisions. Secondly, it could be argued that the money management within a family has an effect on the power relations between couples. Edgell argues that the reason why men are likely to take the decisions is because they earn more; women usually earn less than their husbands, and as a result of being dependant on them, have less say in the decision making. Similarly, Michelle Barrett and Mary McIntosh additionally argue that men usually make the decisions about spending on important items.
Marxist theories state that inequality is not a female issue, but a class one, for they note that middle class women are often better off than working class men. This point seems futile; can inequality not be a problem of the female and the working class male? Class aside, it is an indisputable fact that by and large, women are affected more harshly by poverty than men, in Pearce’s research into poverty in the United States, she found that two thirds of the poor who were over 16 were women. Poverty is rapidly becoming a female problem. Marxists however claim that we should focus on the eradication of capitalism, because then gender disparities will swiftly follow.
Still other theorists have characterized the poor as fatalists, resigning themselves to a culture of poverty in which nothing can be done to change their economic outcomes. In this culture of poverty—which passes from generation to generation—the poor feel negative, inferior, passive, hopeless, and powerless. Feminist theories of poverty are naturally concerned with women’s poverty. They are new and old. Mostly they concentrate on who gets what and why through the lens of why women get what and who sets the agenda.
She may have seen the social programs which exist to catch those falling through the cracks, perhaps temporarily on hard times. Conflict theory and structural functionalism are two different paradigms used to view society. Both have their place. Perhaps the view one adopts depends on their agenda and whether they inherently choose to preserve the status quo, or to change it. My own experience as a single mother earning minimum wage was not nearly as frightening or trying as Ms. Ehrenreich’s; I tend to have more of a structural funtionalist’s view; my glass is at least half full at all times.
Role of Women in Flatland Society Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott depicts a fictional two-dimensional world that “A Square” lives in. This two-dimensional world is used to satirize Victorian society and the strict social hierarchy. The role of women in Flatland’s society appears to be especially reflective of Victorian society at the time. As typical of Victorian patriarchal society, women have very few rights and are considered to be at the bottom of society. However, based on the breadth of women and other shapes in Flatland, it appears that certain shapes in Flatland have the same appearance as women from a distance making it an interesting contrast of women’s traditional role in society.
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. Being that our society is a patriarchy (male dominated) and has been for so long, (women started to get the right to vote in the US in the year of 1920) it may seem odd or even hard when people have to answer up to a woman in charge; because we are just simply not use to it. In Patricia Hill Collins’s article she makes it seem that poverty and low economic opportunities seem inevitable towards black women: “Black men’s lower income meant that the majority of Black women could not marry wealth nor could their mixed-race children inherit it”. It truly seem like an ongoing process since, even their children have to start from
Explain the Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist view of gender. 124. Define the following: gender stratification, patriarchy, matriarchy, gender egalitarianism and sexism. 125. Define the following: division of labor by gender, gender occupational segregation, labor force participation rate, human capital theory, dual labor market theory, overt discrimination, sexual harassment, internal gender segregation, and glass ceiling.
Experiencing a double outsider status--unlike white women or African American men--African American women report exclusion from informal networks and conflicted relationships with white women among the challenges they face. Barriers facing African-American women in business include negative, race-based stereotypes; more frequent questioning of their credibility and authority; and a lack of institutional support. Experiencing a “double outsider” status—unlike white women or African-American men, who share gender or race in common with most colleagues or managers—African-American women report exclusion from informal networks, and conflicted relationships with white women, among the challenges they face. The historical legacy of slavery, legally enforced racial segregation, and discrimination based on skin color make race a particularly difficult topic for discussion in the workplace. Many women in the study report making discussions of race off limits.