 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).
1) How have women right changed since 1945 from house wife mother to career women from having unequal pay to equal pay from having limited education to getting increased access as well as being a follower to becoming a leader. 2) This all started to occur when women demonstrated that they were capable of filling the jobs left by men who were apart of the 2nd world war. But following the arrivals of the soldiers women were expected to return to their traditional rule as house 3) Wife but after the experience of fulfilling a mans occupation they all objected the so called obligation. To prove this many feminist begun the establishment of committees to lobby government in order to gain the privilege of taking up 4) Any occupation
Steven Buechler presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of organizations in advancing the cause of the woman suffrage movement (1866 - 1920) and the modern women’s movement. While the early movement was primarily a struggle to gain the right to vote, the contemporary movement has focused on equal rights in every sphere of life. Although large and prominent women’s national organizations such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in the suffrage movement and the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the contemporary women’s movement possessed the resources and the organization skills to lobby the government, they were often estranged from the daily needs of women from minority races and working class. In both
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.
Great depression- the 1930’s dealt a devastating blow to all Americans but its cumulative and cataclysmic effects on the African American population was most devastating, particularly to a people struggling against the exclusionary and racist public policies framed within a segregated polity. Ella Baker- was an agitator for racial justice, became one of the most important women in the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s, published an expose of the exploitation of women laborers in The Crisis of 1935. Daisy Adams Lampkin-a native of Washington D.C, in 1915 became the president of the Negro Women’s franchise league, a group dedicated to fighting for the vote; in World War I she directed liberty bond sales in the black community of
He is accusing not just the Great Depression, but the entirety of American government for the overwhelming population of impecunious people in the 1900’s. In both Steinbeck’s novel and Lange’s photograph, the way of life for the thousands of destitute Americans is portrayed in the lives of one or two. The woman in Lange’s photograph, Florence Owens Thompson, depicts a deeper demon of a halved family in search for better lives during a time that would later be looked upon as one of the longest and hardest recessions of all time. She is the face of the million migration workers in search for their own American Dream. They all traveled to California in search of a better life, and instead they got hunger, extreme poverty, and an insane amount of discrimination.
While this is a median, meaning there are figures above and below $5, the pay and wealth gap is a tragic reality for women of color (The pay gap, 2013). From the same study, researchers determine the wages of the different social classes. “Recent census data shows that while white women earn 77 cents on the dollar compared to men, black women earn 64 cents and Latinas earn 55 cents compared to the earnings of white men” (The pay gap, 2013). Another instance is from the debate over African American importance to history. A quote from Franklin Roosevelt said, “If we do not learn from past mistakes, history is doomed to repeat itself” (History Importance, 2011).
Years into the Intervention; Concerns of welfare cuts that have affected women and children in the process,the stoppage of the CDEP plan that created more the 7,500 jobs before the Intervention, the poor number of sexual offenders prosecuted, and a number of limitation communal rights. The Northern Territory Intervention measures sparked many criticism both domestically and internationally saying that the Aboriginal people a being discriminated by there Government due to the 1995 Racial Discrimination Act. The Australian Government was called upon the United Nations Treaty to redesign their measures in direct of the
Classim comes into play when we are talking about the “class” being affect by the poisoning. As stated previously, lead poisoning is more prevalent in lower income communities. Therefore the class that is being affected is that of the lower, which is seen as our modern day peasants. Nearly 39%of all black families in the United States are living under they poverty line (U.S. Census Bureau, 2007). This all comes back to racism in the United States and the continued oppression of minority
Fighting for a cause The women’s suffrage movement, symbol of nineteenth and early twentieth century feminism, is the one most visible manifestation of women’s emancipation. From the birth of the nation to a Constitutional Amendment passed in 1920, suffrage for women had been batted aside, ignored, criticized, and denied. Those who attacked women’s suffrage were attacking much more than the idea that women as well as men should enter the polling booth. Across America women living in the 1900’s were angry and tired of feeling betrayed and treated as an unequal second class citizen. However these brave remarkable women decided to take action that helped forever changed American history, the right to vote.