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.
This was excellent!! I am so proud of all of your accomplishments in this class!!!
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