Personal Narrative: Why Women Doesn T Work

In the time that the relationship between Tea Cake and Janie took place, it was normal for the woman to stay home and complete the chores for the household while the man worked. This conventional Relationship does work for these two lovers. Tea Cake asks Janie to work along side him in the fields, and the people ”generally assumed that she thought herself too good to work like the rest of the women and that Tea Cake ‘pomped her up tuh dat.’”(133) While everyone else thinks that Janie is too pampered to work the fields, Tea Cake believes that she, because she is not his subordinate or superior, is capable of labor. This does not mean that Janie has to take up more responsibilities because Tea Cake starts to help with the chores and making supper. Janie is not a piece of Tea Cake’s property which he can boss around. They both share work and responsibilities creating an equal relationship. Tea Cake does not ask for Janie to take on more work than him , nor does he expect to be the only worker in their bond. Equality is Tea Cake’s utmost concern in he and Janie’s

In “Professions for Women” by Virginia Wolfe uses an exuberant amount of not only ethos, but pathos as well. These rhetorical appeals are used in an excellent way, making the audience understand that Wolfe has a personal connection with her writing over the difficulties for working women, along with making the audience feel the emotions for themselves first-hand. The literature has a strong effect on the audience as there is no void of emotion throughout the paragraphs, dragging the reader into the struggles that women had to battle and still do to this day. The intended audience is not only women, though they are the subject, but also those who are blind to the battle that many don’t seem to understand.

Men only expected them to do work within the house and mainly in the kitchen. Throughout the short story, the mother had taught her daughter how to do take care of her responsibilities, as she becomes an independently strong woman or one who is married. The mother teacher her daughter how to do laundry, iron, sew, sweep, wash, and set a table. She is also informed that she had to learn how to make herbal medicines, catch fish, and instruct how to live a fulfilling life. These two women live in a rural and poor setting where passing on such advice is crucial for daily living, especially when women do not have equal rights, or are being mistreated.. The mother was also informing about the relationships her daughter will have with men in the future, warning that men and women at times “bully” one another. “This is how to bully a man; this is how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man, and if this doesn’t work there are other ways, and if they don’t work don’t feel to bad about giving up” (Kincaid, 320). Men would not really take good care of their beloved ones, except for a handful of people in the past. It still continues today, but not as

“Women’s Regional Excel Centre partnered with Canada Soccer to build the highest level of performance in Western Canada.”

The Redwood shelter is proposing a “The WOTM Women’s Work” conference for women, about women in trades and technology.

In Virginia Woolf’s speech “Professions for Women” she uses rhetorical appeal towards women’s abilities to do anything a man can do, she uses an overall good amount of rhetorical devices that help the reader to picture & experience what she’s feeling and wanting us to see.

“It’s not easy for a woman to get out and about. She has to look after her husband, make sure the servant girl does her work, tuck the baby up in bed, wash it, feed it…”

Nancy had the courage to address my malaise the other night and here is what I think I heard. I use the term, think I heard, because I feel a wave of paralyzing, feverish, sound muffling cortisol washing over me, submerging me under water, when I hear criticism from Nancy. Symptoms are similar when I'm criticized by others but they register a geometric order of magnitude lower.

Where do you see beauty? Is it a baby’s first breath? Is it a song heard in the distance, so faint you cannot make out the words? Maybe it is a single drop of paint on a canvas or hands broken, from punching the wall out of primal frustration to be immediately regretted. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To me, as a beholder, beauty is everything. It is in everything. Every single thing I have ever seen is beautiful. All I have ever wanted to do was create more beauty. I have painted, sculpted, carved, sketched, drawn, scribbled and sewed. I have made one million and one masterworks and none have ever really made a difference to anyone but me. That is why I feel I should be considered as a recipient of a Woman’s Club Scholarship.

Something about me that might surprise in is that I love to take things apart. I’m curious about how things work, what makes them trick. As a child it was my toys or old junk that weren’t working and sometimes I fixed them. The question that comes to mind was “Why wasn’t it working”? What was preventing it from working? Now as an adult the question is “Is it a good design”. What details allow it to work the way it does? How can it be better? What materials is it made of? And could it have being done differently? Because of my curiosity I have a fondness for production. I love putting all the working parts of a project together. Going over the prototype, ensuing that as the components come together it’s a smooth transition, on time and within

vulgar suggestions about each other. The resolution was going nowhere, but the insults were relentlessly rising. I just hung up the phone.

My mother never told me the complications of becoming a woman in this world. Maybe she thought I was strong enough to figure them out on my own. Or quite possibly, she couldn't tell me, because she never really knew how to face the complications herself.

Lost, bewildered, I looked up to my teachers for an explanation, “We’re sorry you didn’t qualify”. It was the time three years back when these words made me question my own abilities. I didn’t qualify? Why? Was there something wrong with me? Or was it just because I was a female?

Many believe that nursing has always been a female profession, but contrary to belief, it was not uncommon to find a male nurse taking care of the sick and the dying, even though, they did not receive as much as attention by scholars and historians as did women throughout nursing history. For instance, during the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire, monks would take care of the sick and the old, which continued throughout the Middle Ages, especially when the Plague was rampant throughout Europe. The Alexian brothers are a prime example of a male organization, during the Middle Ages whose duty it was to take care of the ailing (Rangel, Kleiner, & Kleiner, 2012). Even before the Roman Empire, both men and women would have basic knowledge of plants and herbs that would be use to take care of the ailing. For men in nursing they have always been connected to an religious organization such as monasteries, priest or spiritual leaders, or brotherhoods. By being connected to a spiritual organization there was no discrimination between men and women because they were doing their spiritual job. But once religion started to disappear from nursing and it became more systematic such as the reforms that Florence Nightingale helped to enacted (McMurry, 2011, p. 23) which slowly pushed men out of this profession while women remain and became the majority.

In another study, “The Working Wife: Differences in Perception among Negro and White Males” the results showed that “the white male less inclined to believe a wife should work outside the home, he was more likely than the Negro male (w = 66.5 percent; N = 53.7 percent) to define the wife's employment as having a potentially detrimental effect on school-age children.” (Axelson 458) Therefore, the outcomes of this study have shown that it is possible for there to be differences in opinion based on race on the working mother. In addition, since the respondents are from the United States each country has their own laws about paid leaves for new mothers. The United States does not have paid leaves for new mothers unlike other industrialized countries. For example, “Sweden offers nearly a year and a half of 80% paid leave for mothers and fathers while breastfeeding rates there far exceed those in the United States (In the United Kingdom, many women are eligible for up to 52 weeks leave at 90% pay.” (Turner 398) Therefore, paid