 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).
Thus, families that had to turn over much of their produce to landlords relied on these girls to send money home. This document comes from an outside source, a Buddhist priest, though, which could affect its truthfulness. In Document nine, Indian workers are described as peasants and farmers who earned low wages and lived in small huts. The speaker of this document was from the British Commission of Labor in India, so it was probably very accurate, coming from a government source. In document five, it is explained that wages are low from the factories because the factory workers are unattached parts of their family and only need to earn enough money to support a single person, not a whole family.
Depending on the lower or upper level of the middle class, women were able to be work as school mistresses, or not work at all and only take care of the house. As upper class and middle class women had little advantages to their life, lower class women often had none. They were married to poor farmers, with no education and often had to work just as hard as their husbands, maybe even harder as they had a responsibility of taking care of the house and children. In some parts of the Western Europe, lower class women had to work in textile mills or various workhouses parted away from their families, working many, many hours. Double burden was also common at the beginning of 1900’s as women worked to earn money but also had the responsibility for unpaid, domestic labor.
In spite of many recent economical, political, and social achievements, Afghanistan is still ranked as the fourth poorest country in the world, according to the Afghanistan 2007 Human Development Report. One of two Afghans is classified as poor, with more than 20 percent of the rural population consuming less than the average daily calories. Historically, the drought of the nineties, the destruction of basic infrastructure, the damage to institutional organizations, and the scarcity of skilled professionals has been among the primary causes of poverty. Decades of war and foreign invasion has greatly impacted its political and social stance and essentially has destroyed its economy. Economic frailty and government dependence
The war gave them the chance to work in a greater variety of jobs but most of these new jobs were lost at the end of the war. Fewer married women of all classes worked. In some cases, like teaching, they had to give up their jobs once they got married. But more working-class married women worked than women from other classes. In some parts of the country and in some occupations, such as the Lancashire textile mills, they were expected to carry on working after they married.
Esther Oh Mr young US history / p2 10 april 2012 ch 47 the NFWA merged with another group to become the United farm workers author Betty Friedan exposed the unhappiness of many middle-class women in her bookThe Feminine Mystique. In 1965, they made only about 60 cents for every dollar men earned. Even women in higher positions were paid less than male colleagues The invisible barrier to women’s professional advancement has been called the glass ceiling. This term has also been applied to minorities. The first, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, outlawed “wage differentials based on sex” in industries that produced goods for commerce.
For example, in the south, African Americans had little chance of being employed against white people, due to the discrimination of employers. This trapped blacks in a cycle of poverty; if they couldn’t get jobs, they couldn’t afford to pay poll tax so they could vote for someone who would improve their employment rights. Also, southern African Americans had few employment opportunities. For example, sharecropping and other agricultural jobs were the main opportunities. African American women were treated even worse than men.
However, after four decades of aid receiving, poverty is still the biggest challenge in Africa. Data show that overall foreign aid has failed not only to promote economic growth but also to improve the lives of the people on the continent. As such, poverty has even worsened around the African continent. The World Bank (2008) reports that the number of poor in Africa has nearly doubled, increasing from 200 million in 1981 to 390 in 2005 despite massive foreign fund inflows. Furthermore, Dambisa Moyo (2009) in her much acclaimed book Dead Aid goes further by highlighting the failure of aid in Africa.
Absolut poverty is mostly prevalent in developing countries like India or Haiti, but the United States is not immune from it. People whole live on the streets in urban and suburban areas are living in absolute poverty. The other way to measure poverty is by relative poverty. Relative poverty measures the extent to which a household's financial resources falls below an average income threshold for the economy. This measurement is a more individualized for each country all the way down do individual communities.
Sondra Douglas English Honors Gifted- 4th Mrs. Hotlets March 4, 2014 Gender Inequality in the Workplace Gender inequality is the unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on gender. Over the last 50 years, the involvement of women and fairness has been a problem. Economically, women, particularly poor women and African American women did not fare well during this time period. Inequality grew as wages remained depressed and tax cuts to the wealthy failed to “trickle down” to the bottom of the economic ladder where nearly half of the female labor force was concentrated (Justin Karr pg. 41).