Nannies Maids And Sex Workers In The New Economy Summary

Even though it was easy for women to obtain jobs in the field of domestic work or laundresses, they faced heavier exploitation; considering, that with these jobs women often had no time to care for their families. Leading a life in extreme poverty, these women had no choice, but to search for other opportunities to keep their families, and themselves, alive. At some point African American women even had to sacrifice their prides, in order to earn breadline wages to survive.

In regards to employment, women today can do paid work, but their work is usually menial, badly paid and lacking in status (Krieken et al, 2000). Kate Millet (1970) saw women as a reserve labour force who are made use of when they are needed (for example in war time) but are discarded when not required (Krieken et al,

Brennan explored the women's economic survival strategies in the face of extreme poverty, and for most, single motherhood. In What's Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic the sex workers, and this sex tourism are more than a means of survival they are an advancement strategy that hinges on participants successful performance. This type of performance is a relationship of convenience and not love. However, what is new for sex workers is how they turned a commercialized sexual transaction into a marriage as transaction operation in a globalized world where legal crossing of national borders requires passports and visas.

However, “all work makes an economic contribution, but the unpaid work activities related to the home have been marginalized in economic rendering of production” According to Riane Eisler (2007:16 as cited in Lindsey, 2011, pg. 277). Meaning that for human survival, and human development to be successful women’s work needs to be valued, while women are taking on the responsibilities of caregivers to others; as well as their own. In addition to the many task these women provide such as their contribution to their household chores, managing the household income, childbearing; and caring for the elderly; these jobs are all considered unpaid work to which these women will never receive any form of income for the work they provided. In the United States alone more than 40, 000 dollars annually would be paid out yearly, if these women were being paid for services rendered in those areas; such as cooking, cleaning, ironing, care givers; and financial advisor. Meaning, “at the global level, if the unpaid work of women were added to the world’s economy, it would expand by one-third, but on the positive side, the economic reality of women’s unpaid productive work is gaining public and government attention (Lindsey, 200. Pg.

Because immigrant parents could not afford to keep their babies, they were abandoned to the street where there was “not one instance of even a well-dressed infant having been picked up…” (Riis, 68). With majority of the abandoned infants coming from such poor conditions and left in even worse, those in the upper and middle class became horrified with the circumstances immigrants were living in when they came to America. Because very few men could not find jobs and women were culturally forbidden (with their native culture) to work, many women worked as “nurses” for abandoned babies, possibly even ones they may have left themselves (Riis,

In the novel “looking for Alibrandi, written by Melina Marchetta,” there are many different situations and feelings that Josephine Alibrandi goes through, in order to figure out who she really is as a person. Josie also has to deal with the normal up and down roller coaster ride of being a teenage girl. At the end of her journey she has very different views on certain topics to the original thoughts that she had at the beginning. Josephine has to cope with different aspects of peer pressure, religion, sexuality, illegitimacy but also family relationships and secrets and death. She finds out a lot more about herself and her family and friends than she

The book “Global Woman” edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild focuses on the lives of women that leave their third world country to work in homes as nannies or servants and others even sex work. These women take on that labor without knowing what results will come from their desperate action. The authors explain and recount the stories of many of the women whom have had to sacrifice their lives. These women sacrifice it all to provide for themselves and their families and give them a better life, this is told through different chapters.

Every minute, 310 girls have been married against their will. Most for the reason because the parents needed money for whatever reason or they were trying to resolve conflicts with other families. 25% of these girls have stopped going to school because of their period. Having periods in these undeveloped countries makes these girls officially a women meaning that most of them will be taken out of school to help out at home. In Ethiopia there are 9 millions girls and if all these girls finish school and go into the working force then it would add $4 billion USD to the economy; more than what the country makes in a year. The author of Sold, Patricia McCormick, was successful in her purpose of explaining to American teenagers how and why the cycle of human slavery present in the brothels exist.

One of the first things I noticed was how many children the Siegal family had. They have seven of their own kids and one that Jackie took in from her sister. With so many children they needed over 3 nannies. All the nannies were from Spanish countries and they all worked in order to send money back to their families at home. Barbera Ehrenreich describes the process of coming to America and working as a house maid or nanny. Since the Siegal's have a huge house, they needed women to clean and take care of the house itself. This can also relate to the womanization articles as it is clear that these women from outside countries are doing things that is expected of women such as cooking, cleaning and taking care of children. It is clear that the kids have respect for the nannies since they spend more time with the nanny than with their parents. This can also relate to Wallerstein's "Soft Multilateralism" article in

The main idea of Josephine Alibrandi’s mental development was shown after John Barton's death. Josephine discovers to value her identity, and change her approach towards life. John Barton was a close friend of Josie, with whom she had a potentially competitive and romantic relationship with. Throughout the book, John Barton is extremely unhappy and feels pressured by his family to be what he is not, as a result he ends his life. John’s death was a huge loss to Josie yet it was an opportunity for her to develop mentally at the same time. In the book, Josephine reflects on 17 years of her life where she has cursed her Italian heritage as that's what made it different from the people around her. We see this when she says “If there's anything I would have to escape in

As industrialization spread in Western Europe, the production of products and goods moved from the household to factories which drastically changed family life. Married women were unable to work unless they left their children and home in someone else’s care. Moreover, middle-class women generally did not leave their homes in order to work. In contrast, the women of Eastern Asia rapidly joined the work force after the introduction of industrialization and made up a gigantic portion of the labor force. This difference is probably due to the fact that the rural women of Eastern Asia were always laborers, and they make up the majority of the female population. Additionally, European women generally preferred domestic labor to laborious tasks. Rural women were offered independence by leaving their homes in order to perform domestic work; they generally sent their earnings to their families or saved it for themselves. Moreover, the European women that participated in the work force were forced to travel long distances and were separated from their families from long hours. Additionally, their wages were significantly lower than that of their male counterparts. Furthermore, women worked under poor conditions and were constantly susceptible to disease. Similarly, the poor women of Eastern Asia sought employment in the cotton and silk industry.

I have to agree with Maricar's comment. What other jobs are these women supposed to do? Many developing countries don't have the vast social programs we enjoy in America that allow us to pick and choose our jobs. I believe these are the best jobs these women can find, or else they wouldn't be doing them. This problem goes way deeper than just patriarchal societies and the misogyny that goes along with them. Men in these developing countries don't fare much better when it comes to job prospects either. The essay specifically states men are not hired for these jobs because they aren’t docile enough. As much as we Americans have benefited from free trade, you’d think we’d see the irony in this discussion as we type from our Macs that where designed

Girls ages 14-17 were forced into work as domestic servants but it wasn’t uncommon to find many girls as young as 8 or 9 years of age (“Incidence and Nature of Child Labor” 2). Many of these children typically worked a 12-16 hour day and seven days a week (“Incidence and Nature of Child Trafficking” 2). This evidence shows this crisis is on the rise and as the years go by the children are getting younger and younger.

Women made vulnerable by poverty are most susceptible to the sex industry because they lack the resources, the education, and the economic alternatives to pursue other work possibilities. The lack of education diminishes women’s potential to gain paid employment, and desperately consent to prostitution as their survival strategy.

A 1992 UN report discovered “the number of rural women living in poverty in the developing countries has increased by almost 50% over the past 20 years to an awesome 565 million.” (IPeterson)This quote exemplifies the deterioration of rural women 's identity that is imposed due to impact of colonial powers. However, it’s ironic how these countries are “developing” but still undergo a mass incline in the poverty rate amongst women, leads to question what their development plans to digress. With the establishment of agreements of international free trade policies, corporations used this motive as a way to generate profit from cheap labor in underdeveloped countries.