Hi Oge Analysis

Workforce Issues: Traditionally, men will usually work and provide the financial support and the women provide domestic care. In the recent years, as people are becoming more educated and urbanized there has been a decline in this trend.

In Aoi no Ue, Rokujo appears to the priest because Teruhi recited a chant specifically in order to call an evil spirit to him. This is seen near the beginning of the play when it says “Teruhi faces the kosode kimono and, to azusa music, chants an incantation for calling forth an evil spirit” (Muromachi period 927). In Nonomiya, Rokujo and the priest seem to happen upon each other by chance rather than purposefully looking for the other. This is seen when the monk says “As in the shadow of the grove I call the past to mind and feel my heart settling into peace, suddenly a very beautiful lady stands before me. But who are you?” (Nonomiya 209).

     In many ways today's society, even though women have come a long way, we still live in a patriarchal world. There are many examples of this in everyday life, whether it be that there aren't very many women CEO's or the mere fact that we've yet to have a woman president. No matter where you live, there is the presence of a male dominated world. It especially extends into the working fields. There are professions that are categorically 'women's' jobs like nursing, school teacher, or secretarial jobs. The rest of the professional world is mainly male dominated, i.e. engineering, CEO's of major companies, and Law Firms. Which brings us to the movie I picked to watch, Legally Blonde.

It seems that women workers have reached a plateau in society. In order for women to be respected (as men are) in the workplace there needs to be a redistribution of domestic and family work. It’s acceptable now for women to work; but this acceptance into the workforce has not drastically changed what they, women, are expected to perform at home. There is no way for women to move forward to equality in pay if they are not recognized as contributers to their job (i.e. women are still expected to perform outside of work in the family setting as well in a way that men are only expected to perform at work and not at home).

Being a country who is ran by men, it is still hard for a woman to compete with men. A woman could have a 4 year degree at Harvard and a man with a two year degree will still get the job. Even if a woman is hired, her male counterpart will still make more money than she will. Sad, but true. When it comes to gender roles, although now days women work out side of the home, women are still the ones who come home to work their second jobs. Pick up the kids from school, clean, cook dinner and get the kids ready for bed. Some men may help out with the second shift job, but not often. Our textbook refers to Susan Moller Okin who talks about making family roles fair and just by reconstructing family and gender roles in her book entitled “justice, Gender, and the Family”. I agree with this, women and men will not be able to share house hold work until men and women or forced to rethink family responsibilities.

Liliana while I did not live in the exact same situation as yours, I can definitely relate due to coming from a Mexican household as well. Many of the females in my family, from both my mother's and father's side, do not work outside the house as well back in Mexico, including my mother who lives here in Arizona because that was what they were taught and used to seeing in households. In my youth, I was often told from family members that I should strive for better than just relying on a husband for support because of how society is changing now and how unfair it is with only depending on them. I was raised in the U.S, but my parents immigrated here and adopted many of the values held here compared to the ones they had prior in Mexico such as

I’m a former student of O’Connell High School, going there for almost all my years in high school. Recently I had graduated and attended Stephen F. Austin State University. Coming from a college preparatory school, I felt that I would be antiquity ready for college. But I was severely wrong about this. Leaving the school and attending my first college classes, I barely knew how to write a proper essay. I had no clue what APA or MLA format even was when asked to use it. My knowledge of things like Algebra, History and Politics and Government were vastly below what those of my peers were. In my economics, we watched American Sniper. If baffles me how the school could let teachers show movies like this, just because they chose to that day. My

While I do agree that my family is filled with women who seek careers, I do believe that women in my family still held a stronger role in taking care of the children and home than the men. For example, my mom and aunts often talk about how they were the ones to take off work when a child was sick as opposed to the child’s father. Lisa did mention how my female cousins and I all talk about how we want our significant others to play a stronger family role.

You don’t have to be on top of the latest current trends to know that both men and women have been in the workforce for several decades now. Yes, since the end of world war 2 both men and women have contributed to the working load when women stomped their feet on the ground and demanded their rights to labour. Yet, it seems as though we are still stuck in the 40’s folks and quite frankly, it seems that it just was not enough. Moreover, the lingering issue of inequality between the salaries of men and women continues.

Mohanty also stated how, in India, women’s “definition as housewives make possible the definition of men as 'breadwinners'” (13). We see that in Nasarpur, India the woman’s role in society is somewhat restricted. Her restricted role of being a housewife increased the man’s status in that society as the sole provider and the hardest worker. Although this concept of men’s and women’s roles in society is not totally true in America, I still think it occurs in our society. I feel that most men accept women working outside the home in America because it has become a norm over the years, but I do not think all men are comfortable with the idea of women working outside the home. The fact that women are no longer just simply housewives makes some men feel as if they are being robbed of part of their masculinity, which is tied to being a sole provider for a family. Women have proven during the past few decades that they can be housewives and manage to handle an outside job as well. I think this proves that women are strong dependable laborers. A good worker is one who can handle multiple tasks such as managing a household and having an outside job.

As longs as humans have existed, women have been oppressed. Men were generally seen as the breadwinner, the man in the relationship, the man of the house. This theory, or belief further lead to what was known as the retro-era. The retro-era, around the 1950’s, was the epitome of gender-based stereotypes, where women were only valuable to household skills such as cooking, cleaning and housework. In more modern times, women gradually received more rights to pursue careers men would stereotypically take over. Pursuing “manly” careers, which include lawyers, actors, politicians and anything that requires exceeding cognitive function, as a woman elicits criticism. It’s clear to see women have much more limitations, restrictions and expectations than

The topc from all of the four articles talked about work-life balance between men and women. The article from Robert Dorment and his article called Why Men Still Can’t Have It All and his points talked about hard to get women to understand that men have struggles with work-life balance too. Second article called Why Women Still Can’t Have It All that Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote about women can successfully balance professional advancement with women and work-life balance. Third article called Women, work and work/life balance: Research roundup by Margaret Weigel and she wrote about work-life how to face this situation between men and women. For example, work-life balance and wage inequality

I agree that this novel about Ray’s journey of finding his way to overcome his fear and to understand the true meaning of life. He started to see the world in different aspect. He learned how to embrace the world and feel the confidence of facing new challenges in life. He has lost his egotism and learn how to considerate others.

     In the family life, men and women have role specialization just like in the US. Men are told to go out and make the money and the women are told to stay at home with the children and support their man. Women take on all of the domestic responsibilities and marriage is a high priority, especially for rural women. The dramatically decreasing birthrate has prompted authorities to actually promote the “woman as homemaker”. While they do admit that women are needed in the workforce, labor officials state openly that they believe that the women should stay at home and take care of the children. It is amazing to me that these officials publicly state this. No women or men have a “place” in this world; we all make our own way. However, after looking at this country, it is clear that we do have our “place”.

The generation now has made it easier to equalize men and women but there is still a substantial amount of places where gender inequality is still happening in the workplace and where females still face discrimination. Women are often discriminated in the workplace and are usually not promoted as quickly as men are and they also receive less pay. History shows that women have not always been defined as property and thought of as second class citizens. But in the 21st century many have seen a drastic change in the so called “traditional” family ways where women are suppose to stay home and take care of the household chores, food, and children and men are suppose to work to support their family and provide financial stability. Many assume that in the workplace women are more vulnerable and less competent than men because women 's instincts are to put their family before work or anything else. Whereas men are the ones who will usually stay the late hours to work. People on both sides of the political spectrum and everywhere in between seem to be fearful of what is to come and more fearful of others than they are often willing to admit.