Life On The Global Assembly Line Summary

In Girl Rising (2013), reveals how gender discrimination negatively affects the future of many women and continues to be prominent in society through forced marriages, extreme poverty, and/or labor obstacle. Girl Rising (2013) reveals heartrending stories of nine girls from different countries to show how these girls overcome great obstacles to obtain an education and change their fate. Each of these girls was paired with a writer from their own country to help tell Soka story. Young girls that were faced extreme poverty, forced marriage, and forced labor (Robbin, 2013). Each story is written by a writer from the girl’s native country and is narrated by renowned actresses such as Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Salma Hayek, and Meryl Streep

Vicki Schultz uses the case of EEOC v. Sears Roebuck & Co. as an example of sex segregation of women in the workplace. In this court case it was found that the employer had not discriminated against women in commission jobs because the EEOC claims “were based on the faulty assumption that female sales applicants were as ‘interested’ as male applicants in commissions sales jobs. ”(174) Therefor Schultz suggests “lack of interest” in those commission sales jobs “rests on conventional images of women as ‘feminine’ and nurturing, unsuited for the vicious competition in the male dominated world of.”(174). She then goes on to describe that the “lack of interest” claim can be use in two ways; Conservative and liberal.

It went into detail, explaining the female factory working population and the hardships that

In the article "Some Lessons from the Assembly Line", by Andrew Braaksma, the key points are how the working conditions in the factory play into how the author viewed his college experience. Also, how the uncertainty of the jobs lifespan pushes him to work hard in his classes. Lastly, how many of his classmates are taking their college experience for granted and not making the most of their education keep him in line at college.

Due to this type of employment being viewed as a women 's job, the assumptions that domestic labor is a part of women 's nature leads to the belief that they should be paid low wages due to the job not being demanding. As a direct result this type of employment encourages oppression and transforms domestic labor into “servitude.” Therefore, women are constantly bombarded with extra duties that they are obligated to put up

In addition, document 3 also expresses that factory conditions in Japan were harsher than in India. Document 3, from the viewpoint of two Japanese women, describes their experiences in textile factories. The first woman recalls the lack of heat and food present in the factory compared to the large amount of labor executed by the women. The second woman discusses the illnesses people contracted which led to the death of her thirteen-year-old sister. This reveals the harsh conditions experienced in Japanese factories and that women mainly worked in these factories.

According to the article “Hotline Statistics,” in 2016 alone, there were 1,057 reported cases of human trafficking related to labor work with a total of 7,572 cases of trafficking. Regardless of the 1,057 individuals that were trafficked for labor, there isn’t a lot of awareness in regards to this problem. However, Noy Thrupkaew, the speaker of Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works, talks about the reality of slaves in our lives; whether they are sold into labor or used for sex, and the eye opening statistics that are related to the labor trade. In addition, the excerpt “‘Guests’ in the fields,” is written about migrants, who are working towards a better life, and get caught in the snare that is human trafficking.

Gender inequality has always been an issue in our country; And many kinds of literatures were written in regard to that issue. Two of those were: “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” by Anne-Marie Slaughter and “Why Men Can’t Have It All’ by Richard Dorment. While both Anne-Marie Slaughter and Richard Dorment focused on discussing different problems, both essays have a similar theme; Which is the issue that women are always being dominated by men in most workplaces. Anne Marie Slaughter focused her essay on discussing how women will be successful in workplace. Slaughter uses some of her experience to describe her point.

Reading Chitra Divakaruni’s essay, Live Free and Starve, it is clear that she opposes the law(s) stopping child labor in Third World Countries. With that being said, she uses a significant amount of anecdotes proving her point as to why child labor should be prohibited. The personal anecdotes enables the readers to relate emotionally. It serves to fortify her claim, and by providing specific examples of how this bill would adversely affect these children, which supports her argument. Divakaruni is extremely passionate about what she believes.

In the article it says that women entered jobs like engineering, other professions, and manufacturing jobs that many people believed that those jobs were too dangerous for women and women were too weak. In their jobs, women made airplanes, warships, munitions, and tanks working in technical and scientific fields. Also, after the war, women were still employed as secretaries, waitresses, or in other clerical jobs. This was often called the “pink collar” force. This article shows how sometimes women are given clerical jobs that show people underestimate the abilities of women.

This goes along with the gender inequality within the household. They brought that attitude into the workforce which helped transition the gender hierarchy that existed in the household, into the factories and other production facilities. Ideas of women’s placement in society were underpinned by legal, political, and social practices which subordinated women. They were seen as less important. One circumstance that made women seem less powerful was how poorly they were paid compared to men.

A study concluded that 90% of women who left their jobs left due to workplace problems of frustration. Most of them quit due to the long hours and the fact that they were mistreated by

Women. Women’s involvement in the working world have contributed to many items that would be missing from the world today; if they had not been allowed to work.. Women have struggled with sexism in the workplace since before they were even given the chance to try to work. They were taught from a young age that their job was to provide children, cook, and clean for their husbands, while the husband worked and provided the money. What men did not know however was that women were capable of so much more(Jewell, Hannah).

Since the establishment of the roles of society, women have been entitled to feminine roles that focus on family and nurturing. This roles allows for the subordination of women in the workplace since it makes distinctions between ideological constraints between genders. This opens up for the construction of gendered processes, that focus on the placement of roles that only “women” are allowed to acquire because of their practices. The author makes the example of how the managers contribute to gender gap and placement of roles that do not allow for the advancement of women in an organization. Acker argued, “…the production of gender divisions.

The fact that some women have a job to earn a salary is a dreadful abuse we must put an end to by all possible means.”