ESSAY 2, DRAFT 1

Essay 2, draft 1

Dayana Astudillo

            In our field work, many employers treat people different according to their gender. Also many people think that men do the hard work and women do the easy work however, nobody thinks that women do double work than men because the woman also does work inside of their homes such as, cooking, take care of their children, and cleaning. Nowadays, woman and man work and both bring money to their homes unlike years ago that was a stereotype in which the man worked and the woman stayed in their homes taking care of their children and doing the housework or was a case in which the women was not treated equally or in many cases women did not achieve a recognition in their jobs.

In one of the articles named “The Politics of Housework” by Pat Mainardi of Redstocking talks about equality is a key term in actual relationships. According with Path Mainardi of Redstocking “We both had careers, both had to work a couple of days a week to earn enough to live on, so why shouldn’t we share the housework?” (Mainardi, 1). By that he is stating that in the actuality many couples have the same style of life like working the same hours, sharing the bills to pay and even and many cases the same income. But, the only difference that they have is they gender feminine and masculine and for that reason I think that even at home the household should be also share equally. But in many cases a stereotype still lives in our culture because women should do the housework and take care of kids. However, this happened many years ago with our grandparents. There are strange cases in which many families this matter still occurred with the differences that the woman also have a part time job besides the housework.

On the other one the article named “A Day Without Care” by Sarah Jaffe mentions that nowadays the majority of woman are discriminated. Although men and women have the same kind of job many companies tend to pay women less than man just because they think that always the man should support their family. According to the article, “in the 1900’s pushed poor women into low-wage part time jobs that neither paid them enough to support their families nor provided benefits” (Jaffe, 3). For this reason is clear to see that back then they did not have many opportunities to support their families by themselves nor the support of the man was need it. The situation was even worse when single mothers need it the full time jobs and also extra money for baby sister their kids as is stated in the following comment in the article, “Single mothers who work low-wage… and waste money on complicated child care arrangement – because they never know whether they’ll be schedule for five or twenty five hours… if they have to worry about child care” (Jaffe, 3).