Analysis Of Evelyn Nakano Glenn's From Servitude To Service Work

Although white women have had more success in achieving equality, non-Anglo women have experienced discrimination and prejudice based on gender and ethnicity, thereby impeding their advancement towards equality within patriarchal societies. Feminism, therefore, differs among women of other ethnic groups. Because cultural identity and values also deviate from those of white women, the concept of feminism is also differs. Equality of education and employment, egalitarianism, and ethical treatment tend to become key aspects of feminism among Arab and Latina women. In her article, “From Servitude to Service Work,” Evelyn Nakano Glenn addresses the aspect the oppression of women among Latinas and other non-Caucasians. Glenn argues “race and gender emerge as socially constructed, interlocking systems that shape the material conditions, identities, and consciousness of all women.” Women of color, however, are subjected to oppression twofold: gender and race. The impact of the social construct has inhibited women in education and employment, thereby reinforcing the subordinate status of women of non-Caucasian origin and decent. In an attempt to acculturate into American society, Latina girls attended schools, which suppressed their native language, offering only English …show more content…
Because of their status within the hierarchy of race and gender, Latina women were offered little, if any, ability to achieve higher wage employment. Citlalli Citlamina Anahuac states, “We do not share the white woman’s experience,” therefore, “their solution is not our solution.” Because Latina women have not been offered the same privileges as white women, their ideals of feminism differ from those of higher racial status. This, in turn, has provided an alternate aspect of feminism: recognition as human beings rather than a subordinate species and