What is your solution to eliminating the sexual division of labor in the US?
How long have you had an opinion on this sexual division of labor? And was there a specific event in your life that made you want to express your opinions to readers?
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Kessler-Harris questions
Your essay is pretty limited to sexual division of labor. What are your thoughts on racial division of labor and international division of labor.
Kessler-Harris Questions
1. What do you think of the economic forecast for America that women may surpass men in payroll this year? (This is from a New York Times article.) Would this change be a temporary thing due to America's dire economic outlook, and could it lead the way to women gaining equal status with men in the labor force? How long do you think it will be before this happens?
2. Do you think your theory of sexual stratification in the labor market applies to the black labor market? Is it even possible to draw any conclusions about the racial or sexual stratification of the black labor market?
3.In your opinion, how well off do you consider women in today's society? Do you feel that they are still being visibly discriminated against as often compared to a decade or two ago? Do you think the incorporation of the ERA into the Constitution would change anything for "disadvantaged" groups?
2. Do you think your theory of sexual stratification in the labor market applies to the black labor market? Is it even possible to draw any conclusions about the racial or sexual stratification of the black labor market?
3.In your opinion, how well off do you consider women in today's society? Do you feel that they are still being visibly discriminated against as often compared to a decade or two ago? Do you think the incorporation of the ERA into the Constitution would change anything for "disadvantaged" groups?
Questions
1. Where do you see fathers roles in the family today? With more mothers entering the work force there have been more fathers staying home with the children. Are fathers still seen primarily as the provider or are the gender roles blurring enough to allow there to be the possibility of a switch or a combination?
2. A lot of your essay focuses on the development of women in the work place and how things gradually started to change. Where to do you see women at now in the working world? Do you think it is possible for women to have both a successful career and a well run family? Or is it even all still put on their shoulders to make sure the home is in order?
3. Do you think there is a significant change in family dynamics with a lot of families now having both parents working? If there is a change is it bad enough to make you think that the family structure would be better off with the mother staying home and taking care of everything? Or if someone has to stay home could it be the father? -- What is your ideal situation between the parents, home life and working?
Questions for Kessler-Harris
1) How do you think matriarchies affect the dynamics of the family and of the community? If the social roles that you mention are reversed and men were to become the primary caretakers of the family and the household, (while women assumed political and economic authority), would they feel as exploited by an unbalanced distribution of domestic labor as women generally do? And with women occupying the seats of power as legislators and employers, would you predict that there would be the same degree of labor segmentation? In other words, is this stratification a product of a purely male or purely female social dominance, or can it be attributed to human nature in general? Do you think it is a natural instinct for the stronger gender (whichever that may be at any particular point in time)to allocate the most unfavorable conditions and most undesirable jobs to the weaker gender? Or are there certain qualities in males and females that make one gender more prone than the other to enforce the division of labor when it is in control?
2) You mention the protective legislation that reduced “the economic desirability of female employees” (Kessler-Harris, 111) by placing restrictions on the conditions within which women were allowed to work. Although you state that it first appeared in the US at the start of 1900s, do you feel as if there are forms of protective legislation (not necessarily for factory workers but for more white-collar jobs) that are a hindrance for either male or female laborers today?
3) Which do you think is currently the most significant and prominent factor in the segmentation of labor - gender, class, or race?
2) You mention the protective legislation that reduced “the economic desirability of female employees” (Kessler-Harris, 111) by placing restrictions on the conditions within which women were allowed to work. Although you state that it first appeared in the US at the start of 1900s, do you feel as if there are forms of protective legislation (not necessarily for factory workers but for more white-collar jobs) that are a hindrance for either male or female laborers today?
3) Which do you think is currently the most significant and prominent factor in the segmentation of labor - gender, class, or race?
Questions for Kessler-Harris
1. You mention that the middle-class women working at the Lowell factories were replaced by Irish immigrant workers. These Irish were clearly later replaced by other immigrants. What do you have to say about this "replacement process" and what happens to the first group of immigrants that has been "replaced"?
2. In an age when it is now not that unusual to see the woman in the family making more money than the man, how would you say this has affected gender relations and the structure of the family in those particular families?
3. What would you say the effect of more women working full-time jobs has had on the domestic sphere? Has that impact been positive or negative?
2. In an age when it is now not that unusual to see the woman in the family making more money than the man, how would you say this has affected gender relations and the structure of the family in those particular families?
3. What would you say the effect of more women working full-time jobs has had on the domestic sphere? Has that impact been positive or negative?
questions
In all the essays we have read in class there was a pattern of not acknowledging subgroups affected by domestic workers. One group is children; What is your take on the children who do not have their own mother at home? Why are not they acknowledged as an important group effected by domestic workers?
Relating to the children again, as you were writing your essay and collecting data did any of the mothers mention the difficulty of leaving their own households to serve another? and how did the family deal with it?
Watching and observing different studies and other methods to compose this essay, did you see or were you told how the family dealt with the mother leaving home? Can you give a specific example?
Relating to the children again, as you were writing your essay and collecting data did any of the mothers mention the difficulty of leaving their own households to serve another? and how did the family deal with it?
Watching and observing different studies and other methods to compose this essay, did you see or were you told how the family dealt with the mother leaving home? Can you give a specific example?
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