Availa Mae Watson In The Intuitionist By Colson Whitehead

Due to the demand of labor occurring in America, industries were at a deficit in workers. This led for young women to be hired to fill the gaps of labor of the deficit. This change went against society’s perception of a woman’s role. Before industries allowed women

William Edward Burghardt Dubois is a man that has shaped and changed the world of Sociology. In 1903 He offers his own analysis of consciousness in his paper,Double consciousness and the Veil, he asks a question that could be said to be before it’s time. Simply, Can the self be more than one entity. Exploring the social world that is most accessible to to him, This is a world that is enveloped in oppression inequality many injustices. Being an educated man was not unheard of at the time but to be Black and educated man was not. Moreover, Living with this identity forces him to define his internal thoughts and feelings is such a

Beginning her speech, Kelley applies her credibility by placing statistics regarding the controversy of child labor laws, revealing that she is informed about this topic. Her credibility has a great connection to her purpose, she claims that the number of working girls doubled from census to census and girls from twelve to twenty years are working when they should not have to. Kelley then manifests her concern over these working girls by explaining that, “tonight,” while everybody else is snoozing away in bed, “these several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills,”(16-17). These words make her audience feel pity concerning those young girls and are a great reason to act against the unfair laws and regulations that violate both their human and women's rights, especially when they aren’t even getting paid fairly. By appealing to their emotion Florence Kelley wishes to push the women to act on her proposal of joining together and helping the poor young girls of their nation. Kelley continues to approach and influence the women’s sentiments and- hopefully- their actions by including her scandalized argument that in “Georgia there is no restriction whatever! A girl of six or seven years, just tall enough to reach the bobbins, may work eleven hours by day or by night,” (29-31). She decides to include the ‘bobbins’ of sewing machines in factories to illustrate how short and how young they are to be working in dangerous factories where their rights are ignored, girls at that age should worry more about going to school instead of sacrificing themselves to bring money for bread to their homes. One would understand that many families are living through poverty due to the economy being at a very depressing state and they need the most they can do to increase their financial position to survive in their society, then again, girls should be

Katherine, in spite of her academic depth and brilliance, was deliberately marginalized by her peers. As she was the only black person in the office, her peers made sure to provide her with a “colored” coffee pot which they did not fill with coffee. However, the most blatant injustice was the fact that she lost hours of work because she was forced to run back and forth to the only “colored” bathroom on the entire NASA complex. Nevertheless, her struggles remained an unseen issue to her colleagues because it was not their reality, and the lack of having a bathroom near their desk did not negatively impact them. It was not until she was questioned about her daily absence that she was able to raise the problem with her supervisors and confront her peers. It took her raising the issue, making this “hidden” issue visible, for quantifiable change to take place. Sometimes in order for change to take place, a marginalized group must be willing to make visible injustices they face and someone in a position of authority be prepared to articulate how that injustice is negatively impacting everybody.

However, not only did women work in the fields they also produce goods, and services; such as clothing, personal hygiene items, and food to be sold in order to build -up their coffer’s through that of their overabundance of supplies. This impact took place during the 1700’s and beyond, when women from all aspects of life filled these domestic jobs while working for very little pay; getting absolutely nothing at all for their work. During the 1800’s, however, this all changed for women and soon these women we’re categorized as being unskilled workers this causing tremendous consequences for these women; especially when the men return for war and once again took on the gender roles to which women were now a custom too.

Women’s history in the United States has always been represented as a struggle for rights. Wealth and status were tied to either their fathers or husbands. In the early 1900s, women were afforded the traditional roles of society. The majority of women worked in the home. If they were of the 18% young or poor women, they also worked in factories as laborers, manufacturing items for the booming industrial revolution (U.S. Department of Labor, 1980). During this time period the workplace was not in compliance with current safety standards. There was no minimum wage yet, work conditions were horrible and they worked long hours, “In 1900, the average workweek in manufacturing was 53 hours,” (Fisk, 2003). Women took “pink

Woman along with the children were affected while working during the industrial revolution. During 1834 and 1836 Harriet Martineau, a British feminist and abolitionist, visited America and enthusiastically embraced the social implications of the Industrial Revolution, (DTA, 223). Martineau compared the lifestyle of women to slaves and said the United States contradicted the principles of the Declaration of Independence. She did believe though with some progress that it could become New England’s new industrial order. One of the Mill factories Martineau visited, Waltham Mill, was a prime example of the scheduled lifestyle of women mill workers. Women Mill workers of all ages worked at Waltham Mill, which I compared to a boarding school because of their strict schedules. The ladies had a time to wake up, to be at work, to eat, and to go to school. A lot of women did not mind the harsh conditions they lived and worked in because they fought for their equality of rights for a long time now.

Women working men’s jobs were not as welcomed in society as they were in factories. People held on to the belief that women should be house wives and not have to do much in the way of work. The man should provide for the family, and the women should take care of the family. Many of the women who worked were lower class and had to help provide for their families, or were the only providers for their families. Women who worked men’s jobs were looked down upon and thought to be no better than dirt. Although women working in factories were still women, men did not show them the same respect as they did a woman working as a secretary or teacher.

The philosophies, although in this book mostly applied to methods of conducting elevator inspections, also pertain to modern society. The Intuitionists base everything on instinct, their doctrine asserting, "[you] don't need to see anything, you just feel it" (Whitehead). This is the more controversial of the two philosophies. Empiricism insists that everything is done by the books and is the more popular of the two among not only the citizens of Whitehead's metropolis, but the world in general. After the mysterious elevator accident, Lila Mae Watson, the main character, is faced with the query of how things should be done and whether she had been right all along by practicing the method of the Intuitionists. Every person faces that decision at some point in their lives. Nobody is born with the knowledge of how they should act, who they should trust, etc. However, in Lila Mae's case these questions have come to an extreme, where she has to choose between two ways of being. She has to decide whether it is one's instincts that will lead one to succeed or following a rigid set of rules. The battle between the two rivaling philosophies seems to have the same impact as the battle between good and evil does on the people in modern-day society.

In the article titled, “They call me Doctor Berry” written by Professor Carlotta Berry discusses authentic biographical dilemmas she faces which fortunately the majority in her profession do not. As a professor with a doctoral degree she “insist[s] on being [called] Dr. Berry”, yet does not always occur. As an African-American woman “there is already a presumption that [Dr. Berry] … is less qualified than [her] white male colleagues”. Considering “there were only 140 African – American women working as engineering professors — out of some 24,640 across the entire field” clear makes her a minority not to mention that Dr. Berry teaches “at a private school in a Midwestern town.” As a result, Dr. Berry is not regarded as highly of even though

Watson describes women as second-class citizens at the start of the story without directly saying so. Watson comments: “My own

Prior to World War II, employers and the government held that there were jobs appropriate for women and jobs which were inappropriate because women were not capable of fulfilling the tasks involved in such work. As we

In this society women's roles are secondary to men women are there to raise the kids, protect them and take care of the house. While talking to Holmes Watson states that “the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment” (219). Watson considers himself as a master of his establishment, by stating that he hints that his family is under him, not equals, and must obey his command. In another instance Holmes explains to Watson what woman's instinct in an emergency is by saying, "A married woman grabs at her baby, an unmarried one reaches for her jewelry box"(233). The married woman reaches for a baby and not a jewelry box. He did not say an unmarried woman reaches for her baby but she would reach for a jewelry box. Therefore, showing how generalized women’s roles are in this society.

At the start of the movie the three women are assigned to a large group of “human calculators” who work in a back room distant from the other scientists. The women were subjected to constant racial and gender discrimination because of the Jim Crow error. They were denied promotions, forced to use separate distant bathrooms and were expected to never complain. Throughout the film segregation played a huge role. This included protesters with banners, Johnson jogging 40 minutes every day in high heels and piles of papers in her hand to use the colored restroom. Johnson worked alongside with white men and drank coffee from their large coffee pot one day. The next day it was replaced with a small empty coffee pot labeled “colored coffee.” As a woman, she also faced issues of gender discrimination. She was not allowed to attend informational briefings that was crucial for her career

She's a really contemporary female, particularly for the 1950s. She brought her California design to the university and it is incredibly enthusiastic about each arts as well as the pupils of her. Watson thinks which the pupils of her are bright and young and may do a lot with the day of theirs. The cultural conformity they are supposed to be to focuses on after matrimony for females. Although an extremely good connect is produced in between the mentor as well as pupils, Watson's perceptions are actually. very contemporary as well as incompatible together with the primary society of this university.