How women’s lives were affected by World War one? Introduction Women before the World War one did not have the same opportunities and rights as men; women were counted as the weaker sex. Middle and upper class women didn’t have to work, because husband’s brought the money home because women were counted as being the house wife and house keeper. However women who were in working class had to do domestic jobs such as house servants, and work for the upper and middle class. Job opportunities were extremely limited.
If women did have jobs, it would be limited to a maid, a nurse or a teacher. Most of these women working before World War Two were mostly not married. In this time, they didn’t have a husband or children so they needed to support themselves by going to work. Women took these jobs because men said it was easier and they have experience with cleaning and cooking. They were maids because like in their homes, they either cleaned up for themselves or for their children.
Miss Hilly organized the Home sanitation initiative where the blacks have to have there own bathroom outside because they carry different diseases. After Miss Hilly talks about that in front of the help that causes Miss Skeeter to go write a book and to get the helps point of view of white women. If Miss Skeeter can get enough black people to write their stories down and send off to New York for a publishing company than miss Skeeter will have a job working for Howard Stein. Miss Skeeter has to get enough people to write about before Martin Luther King speaks. Then that night a black person gets shot by the KKK and then 30 maids want to tell their stories because a famous black guy from Jackson Mississippi got shot.
Also, the essay analyzes how Jackson portrays the grandmother, her actions, and the character flaws that she represents throughout the story. Furthermore, it details Brandon and Sloan‘s depictions of the verbal, situational and religious irony and how it relates to the character flaws within the story. “The grandmother's attitude reflects that of white American Southerners during the time in which the story was written” (Jackson). The story takes place during the time frame where African-Americans were no longer enslaved and were now fighting for equality. It is quite obvious that the grandmother lived most of her days with no respect for the black community and only viewed them as slaves.
Most women were stay at home moms or “housewives” while very few were able to work. If a woman had a job she was most likely working a low pay factory job. “The low wages, long hours, and poor working conditions women workers had faced in the 19th century intensified in the early 20th century, provoking a much more widespread women’s labor reform movement than ever before—one which involved both working-class women and middle-class women concerned with their social welfare (NWHM).” Women were being paid about 60% less than the man’s average wage. This was not ok to the women. They had believed that they were working just as hard as the men were and that the deserved the same pay.
These black women were made to be caring of white children and the white households, doing all of the domestic work in the house such as laundry, cooking, and cleaning. The mammy was said to have no interest in sex and was driven by her overly dominating motherly desires. After slavery was abolished these brazenly racist views started to diminish. These stereotypical views of black women have never fully disappeared but they changed shape and found a place in today’s society. In today’s society other cultures view black women as over bearing, loud mouthed, ignorant, drug addicted, thieving, and STI infested prostitutes, strippers, or just all around promiscuous
. Women achieved their rights through a movement started at the Seneca Falls convention which was led by Lucretia Mott and also through various other movements like the suffrage which was successful in 1920. Illiteracy declined due to compulsory education laws and as a result of a number as schools which were opened up (AP&P, pg 259-260). Racism was terrible in the 19th century compared to the 21st century where everyone was more accepted racially. Due to too much tension among the colored people, the NAACP was formed in an effort to fight racism.
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, classification is one of the main themes, and classification is represented in the women, the wealthier white families, and the entire african-american race. In the 1930s, women were treated very poorly by most men. The women, especially housewives, were treated as if they were worthless. However, they were the ones doing the most work! These women would spend all hours of the day cleaning the house, washing the dishes, caring for the children, gardening, and many other things.
Calpurnia wasn’t like most of the blacks, she was educated and the Finch’s looked her as just another family member. That Calpurnia led almost a double life; she got to work with a white family that didn’t treat her like a black person. They treated her just like one of them also since she was also black; therefore she got to experience the life of a black person and how cruelly the rest of the town treated blacks. “…Calpurnia rarely commented on the ways of white people.” (chapter: 1 page: 15) Calpurnia was aware of the way white people are but chooses to ignore them most of the time. Calpurnia also taught Scout how to write before she started school (chapter: 2 pages: 21-23) Calpurnia was educated enough to be able to teach Scout to write; that being said also means she could read, and most black people back then didn’t get the chance to go to school and get
Many women complaint about these workshops due to the unsafe condition, verbal abuse, sexual harassment that happen to the female workers. There have been efforts to change the conditions that Maquila workers began organized unions in Guatemala. The only problem is that the laws in the Guatemalan Constitution and Labor Code are not enforced. One organization, ‘Camisas Modernas’, actually won a bargaining agreement in Guatemala’s Maquila sector giving workers a decent wage, legal benefits and a normal work week 44 hours; however, Phillips Van Heusen closed the factory and split it up in five areas. Even though all these conditions are around the women workers, these Maquila sweatshops are the only close enough paying jobs that are in the city meaning that many people leave their countryside