The women were frustrated and furious because of the salary drop. While these women were working, they earned about $16.50 a month which was a lot back then considering bread was only 5 for a dollar. When the women returned home and back to their regular jobs they were paid from $0 - $10 dollars a month, which was obviously a step back. Before the war, many people thought the women weren’t prepared or ready to take on these jobs; they were wrong. These women were what they
"This is a chronic condition that we know is related to poverty and the availability of nutritious food and the opportunity to exercise." Personal responsibility among black women is an issue, but so is the government's responsibility to "make sure that people understand the importance of exercising and doing exercise and also to make sure that neighborhoods are safe to walk," James said. A quarter of black women in the District live below the poverty line, defined as an income of $19,000 a year for a family of four at the time of the study. About 14 percent of black women in the city had no high school diploma, one of the lowest percentages in the Washington
The book had an immediate response from women and was extremely popular among American housewives. During her book, she conducted a survey regarding the graduating class of 1942 and Smith’s College. The survey revealed that that 89% of women regretted rushing into marriage and not putting their education to good use. By making these types of survey’s public for women across American to see, she made them think about the importance of being a woman and achieving their goals. It has been said that Friedan was the first person to allow women to talk about a problem that had been taking place for so many years.
 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).
Nick 8/03/2008 Sociology Social Differentiation: Gender Social Differentiation is a normal occurrence for every man, woman, and child on the earth. It is almost impossible to socially differentiate someone without gender being a factor. Gender defines a huge part of the human perception and someone’s possible role in society. Over the years it’s progressively becoming more acceptable for women and men to “interchange roles”; but social differentiation is not necessarily all sexist or demeaning there is some undisputable facts. Such as women can not perform manual work as well as men, on the other hand, a man’s entire chemistry is different allowing him to be less emotional than a woman.
They now share equal responsibilities in homecare and rasing the family. Slowly the gender roles that were previously set are melting away. Since the dawn of the feminist movement women have been able to accomplish what many thought impossible. But in our modern era woman now face other challenges, such as negative sexual attention. When a man is referred to as a ‘slut” it doesn’t associate to the actual definition used by society.
About 1.7 billion people live in absolute poverty. Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country, or compared to worldwide averages. Dictionary.com has described poverty as the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence. About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. As a group we have concluded that a person is consider in poverty when they cannot afford the basic necessities of life including: food, shelter, drinking water, and clothes.
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. As divorce rates continue to rise, combined with today’s economy, many of these women are forced to take care of these children on their own as their ex-husbands are not able to, or do not want to pay child support. “The United States has one of the highest percentages of children living in poverty among, because the majority of them are living in mother-headed households” (DiNitto and McNeece). Although the children are both the mother’s and father’s responsibility, many times the mothers are left alone as the fathers figure out ways to avoid their financial responsibilities. As such, many of these formerly unskilled women are now forced to learn a trade and join the workforce.
In most cultures, men are encouraged to be stoic and to prove their masculinity; on the other hand, women need to be passive, helpless and dependent. Form the moment of birth, males and females are treated differently. Gradually, they acquire the traits, behaviors, and attitudes that the culture defines as “masculine” or “feminine.” We are not necessarily born different, we become different through the process of
It is clear that there is and never has been true equality between men and women. Today the modern woman has much more freedom and liberation then she did in the past in most places around the globe. It is important for us to understand our roots and history. We can take many ideas from people who have lived before us and even incorporate or adapt some ideologies to better our modern world. Many times social class also out weighed the fact that they were female.