blog 35

The article gave insight onto men’s work situations which are being hit economically in these times; women’s work outside of the home has become more needed to support the family. I would assume that with this added responsibility of supporting the family fiscally would make women more of a lynch pin in the working world. Yet, it seems that women in the work place deal with the same issues that they did when they weren’t ‘bread winners’. Are gender norms that engrained in all of our heads that we cannot bear to see a women make a decent paycheck while the man nurtures his family? Gender norms are the reason women aren’t making bigger strides in the work place and most companies stick to the bare minimum when securing care givers rights. The more flexible the work place is the more women who are most likely to benefit can give to their jobs on off hours and from home. The communal stand point of flexibility at work and care givers rights would suggest we all benefit by helping others but in the world we live in now that isn’t a popular theory. The more we work cohesively with care givers the better their work will be because stress will lessen and there will be more work and promotion opportunities for women and minorities. Men still make the ‘ideal worker’ because they need no time to raise children, so women are still being punished in the work place. Women are making up more of the student body in colleges across the United States so it is interesting how work places are going to adjust with this new influx of females in a few years. Will they still be reluctant to hire females even though there are more of them with more qualifications? Will they figure out that women will be just as productive since they will be more qualified or will history and sheer numbers of work days prevail?