Why We Work and Changing the Approach to Work

In society in the 1950’s the average woman played an inferior role to men. Men considered themselves superior to women and often expected women to cater to their wishes. Females were expected to adjust their feelings , thoughts and actions to accommodate men's beliefs. The “do not speak unless spoken to” rule was common for women. They were expected to obey their husbands and fathers without hesitation. In order to be judged as respectable, they would have to remain sexually pure until marriage. After a minimum amount of schooling, women had to find a suitable young man to marry. In some instances a woman’s parents would orchestrate an arranged marriage to benefit their social status or income. Being put in such a position deteriorated a woman’s power. Today, women have fewer guidelines to abide by. First, women

The psychology concept relating to women was that they were not allowed to vote or have rights because they were not as smart as men. Additionally, since a woman’s body is biologically different than a man, women was treated differently. For this reason, society was organized to not let woman vote, hold political offices, or to receive the same treatment as men. As a result of how the society was structured, women had to change the institution they were placed in. Women had to prove to men that they are as smart and that even though they are biologically different, that women are just as capable. I believe social facts are still prevalent today, people continue to use biology and psychology to create institutions which separates people because of the way they look, religion, and

In this paper I will compare two work environments from different times and prove how work today can be described as being precarious and unsuitable for our citizens in this rapid world today. I will be talking about my father’s experience working in the late 90’s to the early 2000’s as a legal assistant and as a lawyer in Toronto. I will be comparing his working environment to my accountant mother’s current experience working in Walmart as a part-time cashier. And I will be further discussing some of the ways in which work atmospheres today have changed for all position workers regardless of their career fields.

In the 1950’s, the inequality of gender conflicted women in the United States. A woman’s goal in life was to get married, have children, and to primarily take care of the house. An article by Christina Catalano called Shaping the American Woman: Feminism and Advertising in the 1950’s states that women were known for being, “...Stupid, submissive, purely domestic creatures.”(Catalano 45). Men on the other hand are viewed as the more superior gender. The life of a man consist of getting married and working. Although this may seem very little, men are free to do whatever they desire and are more free spirited during the 50’s whereas women are more cautious in what they do. A woman’s main goal is to attract a husband because if they

In traditional society, woman’s role is to take care of kids, do laundries, etc. While men are supposed to go to work and feed the family. It shows that women are treated unequally. Also, throughout history women are also treated unequally. Such as men can have multiple wives and women are treated like slaves. Men can do whatever they want to their wife, including

In order to move with the times, the organisation may introduce new equipment or software. Some staff may see this as a positive step that moves the business forward, but some employees may feel anxious about the change, how much it is costing the business and whether it is actually going to improve their role or create more problems.

In the article by Anderson and Zinsser, they emphasize the specific approved roles women are assigned and expected to follow. Back then, girls were trained to become sweet, chaste and obedient wives and mothers and weren’t expected to become anything else out of the ordinary, meaning they didn’t have the same opportunities boys did. They were brought up to become submissive, supportive, innocent and sexually available spouses. Women were seen for their bodies with their biggest goal being giving their husbands a legitimate child, which was the most valuable thing they could do. If the woman happened to be infertile, they were considered weak for not being able to control that aspect and were blamed for causing a childless marriage. On the other

Women have always had a history with oppression and gender role. Traditionally, the female stereotype was to marry young to bear children of the next generation. She was to be completely submissive to her husband; she had to maintain a welcoming home, she had to completely care for their children. Children of which she didn’t even have rights to if her husband died. Domestic duties were her entire world and her sole purpose was to make her husband’s life as

In past years, women were viewed as property. Women weren’t meant to make their own decisions including those of dating and marriage. In fact, families would arrange marriages for their daughters

The world around us is evolving into a technologically reliant environment. Workforces can be affected in both a positive and negative way. For instance the self-service tills used at Tesco

I decided I wanted to work with children early on in my life, since I wanted to help young people improve their lives. I believe I can help children who have been told, “They can’t,” succeed and live life to their fullest potential. Regardless of the struggles any child may be facing, they are capable of multiple tasks. It is part of the OT’s job to capitalize on their strengths, to allow them to be the absolute best child (and eventually person) that they can be. I cannot imagine a more efficient way to preserve a better world than to nourish each child into an older, wonderful adult who can help maintain the beauty of the world.

Some of the ways the workplace can be changed to better meet the modern worker were discovered in a survey by Richard Freeman and Joel Rodgers. In their survey they found that what workers want is more influence at work. They said, that American workers believe that if they had more say in how production was carried out, that not only would they enjoy work more but they would also their firms would be more competitive and problems would be solved more effectively. Also, influence is associated with a wide range of attitudes about work, and that workers satisfied with their degree of influence report that they enjoy work, have excellent employee-management relations, and trust their employer. In contrast workers who lack good employee-management

I am so sorry that your depression issues have come back. I am sorry to know that you have been struggling to put yourself together and working on your assignments.

The nature of the workplace is evolving faster today than at any time in the past. Historically, employees were located in one business location and worked in defined work groups with the same individuals on a daily

In early times, women were considered “a major source of temptation and evil” (Women’s History.) After all, “Greek mythology, for example, it was a woman, Pandora, who opened the forbidden box and brought plagues and unhappiness to mankind” (Women’s History.) Also in the viking age to the colonial age and on for much of history, the only jobs that were thought suitable for females were cleaning, cooking, taking care of the children, making clothes, and serving their husbands. While, the men went out to hunt, work, or provide for their families, the females were stuck home doing chores. For instance, “In caveman days they gathered firewood, invented tools, killed wild animals” (Bardy) and “In the 1800s men left their families for months and drove cattle across long dangerous trails”(Bardy), while women did domestic work.