Kittay, Parrenas, And Boris

The problem is accentuated by the widening of the gap between rich and poor, that can be translated in this matter as an increase of difficulty for low-income families to have access to the much more expensive high quality day care options. There are several aspects that built such a controversial situation and the most important are certainly the cultural and economical ones. The huge growth in women’s independence and professional ambition, in addition to importance, of the last decades, caused the fall of the cultural basis that have always taken for granted the responsibility of the mother as the full-time caregiver (Chisholm 38). Now women are more willing to gain a successful and respectable place in society, and this can be achieved almost exclusively through hard work and full immersion in their jobs. Simultaneously, the economical situation of our society caused many families to depend on two incomes to satisfy the basic needs. In fact, the increase in the cost of living not sufficiently balanced by a relatively smaller rise in wages, and a greater attitude toward materialism and conspicuous consumption, have given women the same financial responsibility as men (Chilman 451). This aspect can be fully applied only on families with an average income or better, because professional daycare programs are pretty expensive and in some cases can reach prices higher than the minimum wage. Those factors

In the national General Social Survey (GSS), more than one-third of the public agree with this statement: “It is much better for everyone involved if the man is the achiever outside the home and the woman takes care of the home and family.” Thus, the cultural belief of Woman’s Rights is (and is still) being used today. Though with it’s positive actions also comes with its strained bias and social issues. Women are often treated by men as “pure” and should be “protected”

Whether it is the past or the present, there have always been gender roles in society. In most homes, it is the woman’s responsibility to take care of the house. This includes cleaning, meal preparations, raising and taking care of the children as well as the husband. Compared to the men who take care of the more physical activities, such as yard work. It was known throughout many years that it was a woman’s responsibility to stay in the house while the man would go out and look for work to provide money for his family. Although the intensity of gender roles has changed, it still exists.

The resilience of women and the hardship of men were prominent during this time. However, women were still deeply grounded in their home life (Bolin, 74). Particularly women from middle-income families were left with job of being able to balance work and home life (Bolin, 74). Being a caregiver and taking care of the domestic needs of the home was very important. During this time tradition values were deeply routed in the home. Women made sure not let their home life consume them because their may focus was being a good wife and mother. This is a trend that has made its way even in today’s society. “Even now lack of adequate day-care (necessitating private baby-sitting service), low paying jobs for women, and the growth of technologies that open the door to and “electronic cottage industry”, indicate that women’s home production is a mutable but perhaps permanent response to women’s economic and social inequality under capitalism” (Hollingsworth, & Tyyska). The oppression in the past is shown to have made and imprint on society even to this day. Even though

The textbook, Feminist Issues: Race, Class, and sexuality, addresses the observable changes in the Since the mid-20 century, there have been Women have entered the labour market and family care relations of Canadian families work with raising and caring for force in ever-increasing numbers and are combining paid racial children, either with a partner or alone. I focus n the chapter, I take these changes in Canadian families as our through mothers' how families- in whatever shape or form they are maintained I use the term engagement in and managing of market and family care relations Whereas paid work relations" to refer to the structure of the labour market, and "family care relations" encompasses the caregiving relationships outline have with

In Virginia Held’s Ethics of Care, she makes six distinct statements on care ethics through a feminist point of view.

There are a few different reasons for this phenomenon as illustrated by Gray and Heinsch (2009): “women feel that retirement planning is a male role, and that they will be taken care of; women find existing preretirement planning programs are generic, male or couple oriented, and do not address women’s specific needs and situations; women are traditionally ‘otherfocused’ and place their wellbeing behind nurturing others; and women may not feel they have a locus of control.” It is fascinating that these differences are illustrated, and they really make a lot of sense. The point about how women place their wellbeing behind nurturing others is really key; it is discussed so much in class about how women are often placed with the pressures of caring for their elderly parents or family. It is really interesting that this theme of caring for others seems to follow women up until and through their own retirement, when self-care is truly essential. It is really important as a social worker working with this population that women are reached out to and informed about the

There are political policies currently at work that is trying to keep the elderly women safe. Although these policies are to safeguard elderly women, they have some unintended consequences. For instance, the Medicaid Cash and Counseling Program. The Cash & Counseling Program began as a pilot Medicaid program in fifteen states with the objective of increasing applicants’ control over their care services and providers (Receive Payment, n.d.) Before, Medicaid would contract with home care agencies to provide personal assistance services. Now, under the Cash & Counseling, care recipients are given the flexibility to choose their own home care agencies. Family members can act as a home care agency (Receive Payment, n.d). This mean that relatives,

Even wives, the most important woman in a man’s life get treated like slaves and less than human. Author Judy Brady talks heavily on this subject on the presumed duties of the wife of a man. Brady sarcastically tells the reader, “I want a wife to take care of my children”(Brady 1) and, “I want a wife who will take care of my physical needs”(Brady 1). Brady takes on the role as a man with these awful beliefs of a woman when writing this piece. To signify all the statements that are made for wives that are assumed to be caregivers.

The initial answer is that women today can not simply give up their roles of motherhood and wife because they have gained ground outside the home. Household and child care responsibilities still apply to women even if she wakes early to start her 9am job and doesn't return home until 5pm. Yet, this answer is inherently problematic. The responsibilities discussed above should not mean an inequitable amount of time spent on her children and family as compared to her husband. House-hold responsibilities should not result in less sleep than her husband and having less time

Women and men have had certain roles in society that were understood amongst them to be specified for their particular gender. Males were known to have the leading role as head of the house hold and the bread winner while the woman’s duty was to stay at home and take care of the house and children. While many people years ago deemed this way of life and practice to be the right and ethical thing to do, times have changed and so this kind of treatment towards a woman’s equality must be questioned. Even though times have changed, this mindset of a woman’s ability to be as good as a man has not completely gone away. In today’s society a woman contributes to the economy and her family as equally as that of a man. Therefore, women should share equal rights and opportunities as their gender counterparts.

The theory that I have chosen is Ethics of Care. Ethics of care was development by feminists in the second half of the twentieth century. According to Carol Gilligan, men and women look at ethical situations differently, which is why they handle situations very differently. For men this led to a morality based on each rights and devotion to abstract principles even at the sacrifice of people’s well-being. Men will handle a situation that benefits himself or his family even if it is hurting or harming others. For women, it had led to a morality based caring in which increasing maturity broadened the scope of the person’s sense of responsibility and compassion. For mature women it became more about equity and not about equality, when it came

Woman are often stereotyped as weak, dependant, or petit. While men are seen as strong, brave, and are often if not always the hero. In this quote, Bartky takes these stereotypes and explains how they’re fostered. Through this quote I believe that Bartky is trying to raise “Feminist Awareness.” She wants women to comprehend the seriousness of the situation at hand. The first word in the quote is: Disempowerment. This word certainly summarizes and sets the tone for the rest of the quote. Bartky explains that women become disempowered when their caregiving is unreciprocated. The word unreciprocated is crucial here. Due to woman putting in all the time, and care into how men feel they are left at a loss. They are left feeling vulnerable and needy, therefore feeding into the insecure, and emotional stereotypes placed on woman.

How often have you felt guilty when you have prioritised your needs? Women can experience this more than men given the caregiver role attached to them in society. Given the skewed and ‘wishy-washy’ ideas that exist when it comes to self-care it’s no wonder that many of us stumble around feeling exhausted and drained.

One of the most momentous and controversial contributions to political thought made by feminism in recent decades involves the work of Carol Gilligan, who developed the claim that there exists an approach to morality and social relations that contrasts sharply with that which is based on justice and individual rights of the sort characteristic of mainstream (liberal) theory. The ‘care’ perspective – a moral orientation that focuses on the value of maintaining relations, acting on interpersonal responsibilities, expressing appropriate emotion and affect, and so on – has been put forward as a moral orientation uniquely connected with the experience and psychology of women, but which has been relegated to secondary status in traditional theories of moral development. Gilligan’s work famously suggested that women tend to think more in terms of care and responsibility when considering a moral problem than in terms of impersonal rights and justice, and that moral and political principles which were expressed in the latter terms have essentially silenced women’s voices (Gilligan 1982, Gilligan et al. 1988, Brown and Gilligan 1992).