Dear Members,
I welcome you to take look at this and then form your own hypothesis
to what you have seen a nd learn.
If any one does not expect to receive my junk mail, just kindly pass
me a notice.
This is a sociology homework that I did for my first semester @
college, hope you enjoy reading it and also compare this to Haiti`s
culture. This essay is true in a whole while looking at Haiti`s
culture. Have fun while reading it.
Thanks,
Gary







THEME III: Social inequality
> Presented, by Jean Gary Paraison
> TO
Instructor:Dr Mary Young
>
> Looking at the household work, it values as a full time job. In a
house,
> there are many types of work to get done such as food process and
> preparation, care giving, do the laundry, wash the dishes and any
other
> household tasks to maintain the house neat.
> It is a lot more complicated in a rural community houses and
underdeveloped
> countries.
>
> Now, looking at women`s work in order to maintain a good living
standards in
> a family.
> Women spent the majority of their lives performing the grueling task
> required to maintain a household. They also concentrate on food
process and
> preparation, care giving, pick the laundry clothes, and any other
household
> tasks.
> In my own family, women`s work account as one of the best jobs that
requires
> times and skills as well as any full time jobs. We granted women` s
work in
> a household as well as the men`s work away from home. If you hire
someone
> in your home for these tasks, it takes almost the same amount of
money that
> you would have been paid for a full time office jobs.
> In examining how much work are to get done in a household, women
struggle a
> lot and their job is as a full time job than any other kind. Men
are doing
> at least as much household work as women.
> According to a new survey conducted by University of Michigan
institute for
> social research (ISR), the world largest academic survey and
research
> organization.
> The recently released the study shows that women do an average of
24 hours
> of housework, compared to 16 hours a week for men. Balanced
against this,
> however, it is the study less publicized finding that a man spends
14 hours
> a week more on the job than woman. Thus men`s overall contribution
to the
> household is actually slightly higher than women`s.
> As Farrell notes, negatives references to the men and housework
letter our
> popular culture." The myth of male housework; for women, toil looms
from sun
> to sun" wrote one of the major publication, over a carton depicting
a woman
> juggling and struggling with a baby, a roast turkey, and a house
pet while
> her husband watches TV and "juggle" his beer and his potato chips.
Other
> major publication have highlighted women`s burden under headlines
such as
> for "women, having it all may mean doing it all.
> Examining these articles, says women`s work is 24 hours a week,
plus the 16
> hours for the men should have done in the house, it gives a total
of 40
> hours or even more if it is a big family. Assuming the household
work is not
> shared so women do 70 percent and the men 30 percent, it would
have turned
> out that women`s responsibilities is over loaded in the family.
> Depends on the amount of people living in a family, household work
keeps
> increasing off and on, it would have almost cost me a fortune to
pay off for
> the work done by women in the family if I was going to pay someone
else
> $15-20 an hour.
>
>
>
> Recognizing women`s work is important because their work is
undervalued, it
> is also under reported and underestimated. Official figures state
that women
> account for 27 percent of GDP and from the 40 percent of the labor
work. But
> Nepalese women are responsible for 60 percent of additional non
market
> production, care giving, and other housework. Most female workers
cultivate
> corn, rice, and wheat on the family farm, where they spend hours on
> time-intensive tasks such as fetching water and feeding livestock.
At home
> women concentrate on the food process and preparation, care giving
and other
> household tasks. Child bearing and rearing and elder are particular
crucial
> activities.
> Melody Hessin in" More than clock work"; women`s time management in
their
> combined work loads,' Sociological perspectives 37(4) examines how
women
> organize their lives to accomplished their many tasks. Hessin notes
that,
> `the women with both paid and household responsibilities must
appear to be
> successful in accomplishing both, or the risk censure to describe or
> criticism as mothers and/an employee.
> Women usually busy with household work, weekends are spent catching
up on
> the household chores from the previous week and preparing for the
coming
> week. Many women prepare large quantities of food on weekends, then
freeze
> meals to be warmed up on busy days.
> These clear evidences show how importance women `s work is.
>
> The life of both and women would have been changed if true economic
value of
> women`s work were recognized.
> Women synchronize many chores, thereby accomplishing several tasks
in a
> short time period. Synchronization includes doing two chores at a
time, or
> arranging errands so that many can be completed simultaneously,
thereby
> eliminating extra trips. Doing the Laundry while fixing dinner, is
one of
> the example of syndronizing chores. Picking up dry cleaning and
doing the
> grocery shopping while a child takes a music lesson is one another.
> Data from the 1994 Canadian national population health survey
(NPHS) do
> confirm the widespread assumption that women experience
considerably more
> ill health than men.
> In addition, analysis reveals mostly minor differences by gender in
distress
> migraine and the arthritis, health problems usually more common
among women.
> The participation of women` s work in a household account as a full
time job
> ,it may increase double if women have additional responsibilities
away from
> home.
> There could have been a difference in the life both men and women
if the men
> could have taken apart of housework, the women would not have too
much to
> do, and would not feel to get divorced due to too many
responsibilities.
> References;
> Ohio State University Extension fact sheet.
> Double day work: how women cope with time demands
> http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fct/5000/5163.html
>
> House hold workers
> SSA Publication No 05_10021,march 2004
> http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10021.html
> Mensight Maganize; New survey confirms men do fair share work of
household
> work.
> http://mensightmagazine.com/articles/sacks/housework.html
>
> Richard T. Schaefer ;Sociology book
> Working women in Nepal.
> www.mhhe.com/schaefer5
>
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