Dr Frost said that ‘incarcerating women has a profound effect on the families and communities left behind’ it automatically made me think of how our economy slipped after we started cracking down on illegal immigration. Society is a delicate balance and I believe so much has been thrown off that society is crumpling under its own weight; female incarceration which is rapidly increasing is just one of the many factors.
Separating workers lives into private and work increases the female gender role of care taker. Women and men are expected to go into very different realms of work, so the private life of child care which is usually left up to women is pushed even farther away from males and the workplace. Gendered concepts are more set in stone, than actual gender roles (families are all different) which can be increasingly frustrating in the workplace, if women in more male dominated work places cannot get child care they have less of a chance making a case. A female working in child care or another female dominated profession would have an easier time getting child care and not having to fully separate private and working life.
Structures in prisons are very gender based, most guards are males or they are white (male and female). Society places female guards in a category playing down their feminity/ nurturing. The prisons don’t have childcare which also harms the female inmates children place them in foster homes. Men do not have to worry as much as their female co workers about domestic responsibilities because they are less likely to be a sole care giver, or they have a wife. Men also in general make more keeping females from dominating the work place and helping their status in society. Women suffer in organization that are gendered simply because they are newer to the work place and they are required to keep private life private they do not have the ability to be a mother/wife in the work place.
Separating workers lives into private and work increases the female gender role of care taker. Women and men are expected to go into very different realms of work, so the private life of child care which is usually left up to women is pushed even farther away from males and the workplace. Gendered concepts are more set in stone, than actual gender roles (families are all different) which can be increasingly frustrating in the workplace, if women in more male dominated work places cannot get child care they have less of a chance making a case. A female working in child care or another female dominated profession would have an easier time getting child care and not having to fully separate private and working life.
Structures in prisons are very gender based, most guards are males or they are white (male and female). Society places female guards in a category playing down their feminity/ nurturing. The prisons don’t have childcare which also harms the female inmates children place them in foster homes. Men do not have to worry as much as their female co workers about domestic responsibilities because they are less likely to be a sole care giver, or they have a wife. Men also in general make more keeping females from dominating the work place and helping their status in society. Women suffer in organization that are gendered simply because they are newer to the work place and they are required to keep private life private they do not have the ability to be a mother/wife in the work place.
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