Liudys Muniz Blog #2

 

Doing this project was the most unforgettable experience I have ever had for different reasons. When I started this class, I realized that all the students were people born here in the United States, so their first language is English. On the other hand, I was born in Cuba, and I arrived in this country as an adult to study English and continue with my education. Secondly, you can tell how united this group is, I picked group # 3, where we discuss everything related to Gender Inequality. I did the part of gender inequality that applies in family and business, which was easy for me, just summarizing the content, adapting it to the power point that the group leader had prepared and adding a video. I put a video about what Orpha Winfred thought about gender inequality.

     Gender inequality has been decreasing in the United States throughout its history, with major progress toward equality beginning in the early 1900s. Despite this progress, gender inequality persists in the United States in a variety of ways, including differences in women's political representation and involvement, occupational segregation, and unequal housework distribution. Women in the United States spend more than twice as much time on household chores as males, averaging 65 minutes per day (7.6 hours per week). Women do not do less housework if they are working or well-paid. Women do more housework when they work or earn more than their husbands. This has been explained as a means for them to reestablish traditional sexuality while also making their professional achievement less frightening. Women are afraid to delegate housework to men, partially because they feel it will not be done correctly. Women, on average, are more concerned about unfinished chores than males, an attitude difference related to socialization and societies that hold women responsible for the results.

           Furthermore, Gender inequalities in business paid and unpaid labor hours are a major source of gender inequality. Men spend more time in paid job and women spend more time on unpaid household and family care work. Women's progress at work is delayed by this unequal distribution of time, which endanger their economic security. Many tasks and vocations are anticipated to be automated because of technological advancement such as machine learning, robotics, and artificial intelligence, which will increase productivity, free up time, and allow fewer workers to do more. Technological innovations provide such an opportunity to reevaluate the distribution of time spent on paid and unpaid work, as well as to address inequality in the division of labor. This report's first section examines why work hours matter for gender equality and what role time-related policies may play in reducing gender inequality, as well as social and economic inequality more generally. The data demonstrate women's growing contribution to paid labor and show that, while women's average work hours have grown, men's have not. The difference between paid and unpaid time has remained especially pronounced between mothers and fathers. The research then goes on to discuss the widening disparity between those who work a lot and those who work part-time, part-year, or occasionally. Furthermore, the research suggests that this polarization in paid time at work is increasing.