Gluck completed her undergraduate work at Shimer College (the Great Books College of Chicago) in Illinois and completed advanced degree work at UCLA and University of California, Berkeley. Additional publications include ‘Women’s Words the Feminist Practice of Oral History (1991) and ‘An American Feminist in Palestine: The Intifada Years’ (1994). Gluck’s Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, The War, and Social Change is a collection of detailed oral histories that not only chronicle the lives of the ‘Rosie the Riveters’ (working-women during the WWII years), but encompasses the pre-war and post-war years of each interviewee. Gluck intertwines these interviews in such a way that she presents a somewhat comprehensive understanding of the daily routines of these ‘Rosie the Riveters.’ In addition to the personal experience aspect of her interviews, Gluck also directly busts the misrepresented mentality of women laying down tools and happily giving up their jobs to the returning military men. Gluck argues that the ‘Rosie’ era was bigger than the players involved and that it had direct effects on women’s accepted skill sets and ‘place’ within the working sector over the 3 decades following the end of WWII.
Commercials often portrayed a woman as helpless if her car broke down. Feminists went to the streets, marching, protesting, writing books and debating to change social and political views that limited women. One young lady named Betty Freidan made a list of questions while in college for women to answer and after seeing the results, she discovered that at least 200 women were unhappy with their lives. Betty Freidan tried to write an article based on her findings but was turned down, so she took it to a deeper level and took it into herself to try to change these lives to be better and change the way women were looked at. Yes, but you need a bit more specific overview.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an early feminist writer, in the plight of middle class, in which women experienced being trapped in their institutional marriages through a male dominated society. Russell tends to write about the plight of working class through social commentary that considers the struggle for working class females. In both texts there is a varied time scale; in The Yellow Wallpaper, the time scale consists of only a few weeks, “We have been here two weeks”, through this time scale it shows the narrators rapid descent into madness. Educating Rita takes place over a much longer time scale in the 1980’s, which took a course of 2 years, this was the length of an Open University course. Willy Russell uses this time scale for this text, to show Rita’s gradual and hard struggle for education and self development and her empowerment.
Civil Rights Movement In this essay I am going to analyse the main issues when studying the votes for women movement and analyse the reasons for the policies and strategies used by the government. I will then explain and evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies and tactics of the resistance groups against the government policies. Before 1860 and certainly during men and women had very different roles, men dealt with work, politics and war where as the women were to be domestic, raise children and give support and comfort to their husbands. It is important to say that women and men have been fighting for women’s and men’s right to vote for years; however the suffragette movement began in 1860. The suffragette movement gave rise in Britain in 1860 by mainly middleclass women and it was a political struggle for women to be given the right to vote.
Ginia Bellafante spoke in Time Magazine, “if the women’s movement were still useful, it would have something useful to say; it’s dead because it has won” (Bellafante) Progress since the 60’s and 70’s is visible, but statistics verify that women have a long way to go. Domestic violence is a persistent problem; women still fight to maintain reproductive rights, and earn only seventy-five percent of the salary that men receive to perform the same work. Many claim that there is no longer any reason for feminism, despite all this information. Is feminism dead in today’s society? One of the main reasons feminism has lost supporters is that business have worked to over-power the image that represents feminists.
In the mid 50’s Willmott & Young conducted a study entitles ‘Family and Kinship in East London’; it was conducted in Bethnal Green, a long settled traditional working-class area. They found there was a close tie between female relatives with two out of three married people having parents living within two or three miles of them. In comparison to the strong tie between mother and her married daughter the conjugal bond between husband and wife was found to be relatively weak, Women created an ‘informal trade union’ which largely excluded men. Different sociologists have had different views to whether conjugal roles have become equal. Researchers have measured different aspects of equality/inequality in conjugal roles.
They are stories about the expectations that society has bestowed upon women and how many times those roles are simply not in tandem with what women want or need. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”it is quite clear that Louise Mallard has felt trapped for many years in her marriage but was either unwilling or
Women in Law Enforcement Women began working in law enforcement in America as early as the 1840s. How long does it take to make significant progress in a career field to be given more responsibility, to be promoted for good performance, to be entrusted with the same duties as others in the same job? For female police officers, who had to battle their way toward some appearance of equality with their male counterparts in uniforms, it was a long wait well over a hundred years. As early as the 1840s, when six prison matrons were appointed in New York City to watch over women inmates at the city prison and on Blackwell’s Island (later known as Roosevelt Island), in the East River, women in law enforcement were only grudgingly allowed to serve in cities across the nation. They had to fight repeatedly for the right to patrol the streets.
Theory X and Theory Y In response to the two sides of the debate around employee motivation and the best ways to boost productivity, Douglas McGregor argued that managers would tend to pursue the approach which was most in line with their view of their employees. He claimed that managers who viewed their employees as lazy would be more likely to follow an approach based on control, whilst managers who believed the workers could be motivated and wanted to develop themselves would be more likely to attempt to create positive working environments and opportunities for advancement. McGregor referred to these theories as theory X and theory Y. It is important to note that, in contrast to popular opinion, McGregor did not state the theory Y was preferable to theory X, rather he held that both views had merit, and managers should not have too narrow a view of motivation. As such, he believed that scientific management approaches could benefit from focusing on the need to motivate workers, whilst motivational approaches could also benefit from greater managerial control.
Therefore people do change to not work for money but find work's meanings that may improve themselves. For Caproni, she shows a change from focusing on perfect work/life balance to focusing on living a self-satisfactory life. Her experience helps with illustrating the point that attempting to balance her life by working extremely efficiently, whereas later she felt a sense of being hurt because her "increased focus and