Gender Inequality in the Criminal Justice System Women have come a long way since the 50’s and 60’s. They have stepped outside of the kitchen and into the workforce. Even though it is very common to be operated on or pulled over for doing 60 in a 45 by a woman, it is not uncommon for women to be treated differently than men. I will be exploring how it was for women to dip their toes into the criminal justice pool, and also how things have not only grown for them, but for how they continue to stay the same in a way. In the article, “Women hit the glass ceiling in Criminal Justice System,” Rachel Rothwell says, “Today women make up almost 12 percent of all law enforcement positions.”(www.fawcettsociety.org) “Over half of that 12 percent are part of the top commanding positions; however, nearly 70 percent of all department agencies do not place women in their top positions.” Most departments feel that if a woman is in charge then drastic decisions will be made all of the time.
Katherine has used Rhyming couplets which makes her poem sound catchy, and iambic pentameter gives the poem a nursery rhyme feel. Philips believes that life of a married woman is even worse than that of a single woman. Married women have to worry about pleasing their husbands. They have to feed the crying children and maintain house and home, whereas Single woman never have to suffer the “pangs of childbirth” or listen to “children’s cries for to offend their ears”. Katherine first conveys her message by describing the state of marriage life in those days, this is evident when she says: “A married state affords but little ease/ the best of husbands are so hard to please.” This warns unmarried women that marriage can only afford some ‘ease’.
Moreover, on the job everyone is given the same opportunities to advance their career. One obstacle that women go through is making them an outcast and tends to find all the wrongs that are in the business verses looking at every job assignment a gateway to success. Taking on that extra job assignment that may seem overwhelming for a woman with all of her other responsibilities; her children, her family but, this could be that breaking point between herself and another co-worker. Sometimes doing things that we are unsure of in the work place such as taking on an extra task or taking a business trip could be very beneficial to building the career that they actually seek. Women take on a lot more responsibility than men.
With the thought of women climbing the corporate ladder, is eerily similar to the women of the 1950’s, just switch the apron to a briefcase. In the past and now, the need for a woman to have identity aside from children and home is the same. So much of who we are is interconnected to what we do; in essence it’s our identity. Just like the women that sparked the liberal feminist movement, today’s woman wants to contribute to the world. Recent research done by Hoffman et.
Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women’s Work Luis Erazo Laredo Community College The main focus for Barbara Ehrenreich was on building awareness about the problems associated with females working as maids. Ehrenreich reflects on the sixties and seventies to explain the roots of this issue; when housework was not seen as a job, even though it was supposed to be “the great equalizer of women”. Women were cooking meals, caring for children and doing all sorts of other tasks in order to allow men to focus on their job. Without a paycheck for their house duties, women were made to feel as though they had no real value for the family. Today’s problem stems from companies like Merry Maids that
Many women in the United States are viewed as strong and independent people. However, women are also shown to be not as powerful and equal to men, women’s voices are still not heard equally today. The blunt truth is that men still run the world. Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduated in the United States; men still hold more leadership positions in the industry and the government. It is a proven fact that “A man is selected for hire over a woman” (Yurkiewicz) while women should automatically be the ones to sit at home and be less help then a man.
The women now had the opportunity to be equal to men in work. Sue Bruley, an experience PhD supervisor, explains there were over one and a half million women working industrial jobs during World War two (60). Women have always been seen as the inferior, the lower standard. They are only wanted when they are desperately needed. This is seen in society today as well.
In Austen’s time, societal constraints left women with little choice but to marry for economic survival (Multiple, 1966). This is exemplified by the Bennet family, a well-to-do lower-middleclass land-owning family with no male heir. Because of this the Mr. Bennet’s property is entailed to pass ownership to a distant male relative (William Collins) (University of South Africa, Department of English, 2012). The purpose behind one of the Bennet girls marrying Collins is to create financial certainty for Mrs. Bennet and her other daughters. Mrs. Bennet, Elizabeth’s mother, is constantly agitated and obsessed with securing her future.
Women have always been held higher in expectations than men, when it comes to parenting. Men are often looked at as the provider, while women are the care-givers and the parent that exposes her child to different things. In 1963Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique, this book discussed the “silent problem about women questioning whether being a mother and housewife was all there was to life.” In this book she also discussed that women with “college education were not allowed to use their knowledge in the workplace, but that they were groomed to be assets too their husbands.” (Jones 2014 p.3) This created the society we live in now, women in generations ahead of us groomed us to be women to stay home and provide a stable home for our husbands. However, why are we judged for not wanting to work and be good mothers? In the United States when tragedies happen and a murderer is convicted the very first thing the media looks into is the child’s early life.
In “Little Women: Alcott’s Civil War” (1979), Judith Fetterly argues that the four sisters of Alcott’s Little Women (1868) are denied their dreams because “Little women marry, however, not only because they lack economic options, but because they lack emotional options as well. Old maidhood obliterates little womanhood and the fear of being an old maid is a motivating force in becoming a little woman” (377). I conclude that these strong women chose their life outcomes due to their own maturation. Maturation is realizing things we wanted before aren’t always what we will want in the end, a trait Meg exhibits when she comes to realization about loving Mr. Brooke. Meg’s dream was to be rich so that she would not have to work, with “a lovely house, full of all sorts of luxurious things; nice food, pretty clothes, handsome furniture, pleasant people, and heaps on money”(140).