Reflection Paper On The 's ' The Day I Would Stay A Little Bit '

To begin with, Sacrificing Families by Leisy J. Abrego, draws on the narratives of many Salvadorian families to tell the stories on how illegality and gender shape their lives. In Chapter five, Abrego accurately captures the gender roles of immigrant parents in transnational families. Abrego makes it clear that there are inequalities between genders, men have always been privileged individuals, and regardless of the work, they make more money when compared to women. Through her interviews Abrego provides evidence for the structural reality of gender-stratified opportunities and the gender roles that benefit men and constrain women. According to Abrego, “For women, the three most common occupational sectors were domestic, garment and hotel house-keeping work (102). With this we can see that how the occupations of women are tied to their gender roles. Women are supposed to stay at home, clean the house, and nurture.

For my Interview I interviewed Anne Paine. She is a County Court Judge for the 11th Judicial district. The counties that she mostly covers are Red willow, Furnas, Hitchcock, Hays county. She travels anywhere they need her too. Her main office is located in McCook, Nebraska. Paine, didn’t really want to be a judge at first. She used to be a lawyer and had done that for 19 years. One day she got a call and it was someone telling her that a judge position had become open and they though she would be good at it so they wanted her to apply for the job. Anne said she had never really had any interest in being a judge but her husband had told her that her father who had passed away had always told him that he wanted Anne to be a judge. She then decided to sit down and write the pros and cons of the job and the finally applied for the job. One of the top reasons she decided to be a judge was because she wanted to be able to help kids get to better places. She has now been a judge for 10 years. Paine, had went to law school and explained that to be in law school you had to have an undergraduate degree in something. Hers was English, she had once wanted to be an English teacher. She attended law school for 3 years and had said that it just

“Branded with Infamy” draws one into the challenges that poor women and children face every day (Adair). Stricken with poverty leaves women and children that are already suffering, forced to suffer more, which Adair brings up in this article when she’s talking about her mother having to work twice as hard to be discipline for her husband walking out on her (Adair, 236). The article “Enforcing the Work Ethic” has more of a focus on the welfare system for poor women and children (Hays). This article addresses the issues of how mothers are forced to find a job right away and when they are unable to meet all the requirements the welfare system is requesting then they end up losing their welfare forcing them and their children to live without

She talked about her experiences at the 6 jobs she held, for instance, The Maids she was an overachiever completed her tasks faster than other employees. However, she helped them to complete their cleaning duties. Second position at Wal-Mart, the critical aspect for anyone to be silent and not do more than required otherwise managers would expect more from that employee. It was better for an employee to work smarter and not harder. One of the jobs, she enjoyed was at Woodcrest nursing home, helping seniors with Alzheimer. Each of these jobs came with new policies, regulation, job descriptions, various cultures, dynamics, socioeconomic status and human micro level interactions (Ehrenreich, 2001, p. 194 to 195)

I am interviewing Dakota Tolbert. He was born at DeKalb Regional Hospital in Fort Payne Al on September 1, 1995. Dakota went to Ider High School, team Hornets. His most favorite class in school was History. At Ider he was a team player in baseball, basketball, and football. Enjoys working at Maples Rugs which is located in Scottsboro Al, what he loves the most about his job is that he works with the craziest but funniest people he has ever met. Dakota considers them his best friends. What he dislikes about this job is because they get stuck with all the tough and frustrating work the other shift doesn’t do, which makes his job twice as hard to accomplish to make the production. Dakota is majoring in welding, it will take up to two years of

Helena Maria Viramontes explores the cultural barriers and poor working conditions that Mexican migrant farm workers experience. The novel gives the reader a vivid look into the rural San Joaquin Valley through the eyes of Estrella in a further depiction of the lives and conditions of her family and migrant workers around her. Viramontes examines the daily struggle of migrant workers who have no other choice but to live in the labor camps under oppressive and sometimes life threatening conditions just to be afforded basic sustenance. It is seen where on more than one occasion the main character, Estrella, must confront the reality that many living things are suffering around her due to indigence, paired with other sources of distress that are ubiquitous in the impoverished environment.

For the next part of the interview I asked what education and experiances have proven helpful for her current job. My mother replied to me with telling me, that her masters degree in educational administration helped. As well as her privious job of being a parent educater which helped to provide her with necessery skills. I then asked her how she well she

She was recruiting for Bright Horizons Family Solutions. This job would be on the very bottom of my list of options for a job. I don’t feel completely comfortable with teaching and I much rather work with adolescents and adults. I went to this booth anyways in an attempt to make myself more well-rounded. In my Life-Span Development Psychology class, our text talks about the Big Five Factors of Personality. The first factor is your level of “openness to experience” (Santrock, 357). Having an openness to new experiences will strengthen my personality and make me a better psychologist in the long run. Even though my major doesn’t directly focus on children, I should not limit my ability to gain experience. Bandura believes, “the most effective way to of developing a strong sense of efficacy is through mastery experiences” (Cherry). I could use a job like this to strengthen my self-efficacy even further, which in turn will give me an advantage. Experiences, such as these make me appear more valuable. Therefore, increasing my chances my chances of successfully obtaining a career in

ANNE: Do you want me to go?.  Do you think I am qualified for this job?.

Anna, all of your sentences were spot on. I can agree with you on not wanting to travel any more than 30 minutes to get to my future job. I also mentioned how it is important to pay close attention to all details. I think it is important to know pay because it is important that you are being paid fairly and as promised. Lastly, it is imperative to read all words in a job description to ensure you know exactly what you are applying for.

Women have been oppressed in many places and in many different ways over the years, but in Jamaica this continuing trend is finally to be broken. "Sexual or gender inequality represents as essential and integral feature of social relations and culture construction in Jamaica, where for the past four hundred years colonial and imperialist exploitation has governed the development of economic, political, and sociocultural patterns and structures."(Harrison: Women in Jamaica's Urban Informal Economy pg. 12)

Time has shown that the concept of labour has considerably evolved from what it previously was. Husbands are no longer the sole providers for their families (Sassen, 2003) and there has been an increase in the demand for what is known as “intimate “labour” (Boris & Parreñas, 2010, para. 1). This kind of labour is centred on the physical interaction between human beings, or being in situations whereby one has first hand access to lives of others (Boris & Parreñas, 2010). Types of intimate labour include domestic labour, whereby one has to clean the household, take care of children and tend to their needs in the form of bathing and feeding (Boris & Parreñas, 2010). Prostitution can also be considered as a form of intimate labour, as prostitutes have to physically engage in sexual activities with their clients (Boris & Parreñas, 2010). Other examples of intimate labour include surrogacy, whereby women carry the babies of other women who are either unable or unwilling to carry the baby to term themselves, whilst being paid to do so (Boris & Parreñas, 2010). Nurses and healthcare workers provide intimate labour when tending to patients who are unable to do certain daily tasks on their own, for example dressing (Sassen, 2003) and intimate labourers also include those who work in salons, providing facials or pedicures (Boris & Parreñas, 2010). Intimate labour does not always involve a long-term investment in one client or employer like in terms of domestic work, but can involve

According to Dr. Ray Jureidini, an Australian Sociologist who has been researching and publishing in the field of migration, xenophobia, and migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, Egypt and the Middle East, there are two sides of this story that are essential in analyzing the reasons behind these actions. One side brings light unto the problem of a degrading form of slavery. The other brings light unto the benefits that individuals, families, and the country can receive through the financial support afforded by the incomes remitted from these workers (Jureidini 582). Throughout this paper, we will take a more serious view on this issue by looking at how female Sri Lankan domestic workers in Lebanon are often mistreated, exploited, and receive unfair treatment by their employers through restriction and denial of their basic human rights. At this point, they can only be seen as "contract slaves" (Jureidini

Women in particular are the much affected in the informal labour market, women generally find employment in peripheral jobs of the large units as temporary , contract or part-time workers. there are many women working as a domestic servants, hawkers,construction workers and petty traders and women in search of livelihood who are self-employed selling petty commodities such as fruit,vegetables, beedis or even their own labour and bodies as domestic workers or as prostitutes. Most of them are either illiterate or having lower education. They have to work in low paid and low skilled jobs the irony is that through women bear double burden patriarchal perception consider them as secondary labour forced and supplementary earners. The number of women in the

This study explores the different dimensions of the lives of part time domestic workers – life in slums, working conditions and their attitude towards work. This study focused on two distinct categories of domestic workers