 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).
Norse women were allowed to divorce her husband if he mistreated her and her children, he was not an ample provider, or he offered insult to her family. Critical Thinking Questions 1. Early in the unit, you learned that women warriors are always on the side of good. Do you believe that a woman warrior could be on the side of evil? Justify your answer.
350,000 women were in unions in 1914, but 600,000 by 1918. Although many women found themselves earning good wages for the first time during the war, women were always paid less than men, and were not promoted as often as their male colleagues. The war did lead to real changes in social attitudes. Women had more freedom after the war. Their clothing became much simpler, with shorter skirts and sleeves.
Ann Crittenden’s “The Mommy Tax” claims the ideal worker is one who is free to focus solely on his job. This is a problem for women, who ponder the idea of having children and for those who already have children. Because a woman has the capability of having a child, she already poses a threat to an ideal worker. Crittenden also presents a study that focuses on the gender difference in time taken off from work. Former women University of Michigan Law students were found to have taken an average of 3.3 months of leave plus 10.1 months of part-time work during their first 15 years.
Based on research from About Families, single mothers of ethnic minority are least likely to gain financial assistance, and don’t receive much social support (About 15). The mother has problems of her own that are hard to shield from affecting her
Hypertension Obumneke Nwada Hypertension The purpose of the essay is to read the case study titled “Gladys, an African-American Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) with Hypertension in Chapter 10 on page 133 then Answer and discuss the questions (1 - 4) in essay format. What information have you gathered about Gladys? The information I gathered about Gladys is that she is a hard working low income nurse and suffers from hypertension which measures 140/90 despite all medication, under her support are 5 grown children all of whom is living with her. Her financial status is very poor because of all the expenses she incurs, which includes a house she pays mortgage on. At the age 20 of Miss Gladys started suffering from uncontrolled hypertension which runs in her family and contributed to her parents’ death, Miss Gladys is short in height and overweight.
Now she feels vulnerable and like she can’t enjoy life as she can’t take part. So this woman has a negative attitude towards elderly life. Programmed Theories of Aging. There are three different systems that are involved with aging and these are endocrine (hormal) system, the immune system and genes. These systems change as time goes on and cause symptoms and signs of aging.
Brandi Cory IDS 101 Masculinity and Femininity Final Essay Question #1 I chose the article by Ann Crittenden titled, “Sixty Cents to a Man’s Dollar,” because I can relate to this article on a personal level. As a woman that grew up in a two parent household and now as a single mother, I witnessed the injustice to women in the workplace. As a small child I watched as my mother and father worked at the same place, doing the same job, yet my mother made less money than my father did. At that time no one really talked about it, it was just “normal” and not many people thought twice about it. Was it because she was a woman or because she was a mother, I am not quite sure, or if it was the combination of the two.
Another aspect of the Depression affecting life of women was the moral argument against working-women. There was the social movement toward the defeminizing of public and private jobs for married or unmarried women in these days, because such social current brought by
Several factors have contributed to this increase. It is a sad reality that many women are forced into welfare because of divorce. Demographics show that “43% of mother-headed families live in poverty” (Amber). After a divorce, many women who have been housewives or homemakers are suddenly forced to join the workforce. Many of these women are not only forced to support themselves, but they are also now forced to be the sole caretakers of the children from the marriage.