Global Women By Russel Hochschild: An Analysis

Globalization does not just affect global economics, it also improved women’s social status because women also have ability to work outside and earn enough money to support whole family. Before globalization, women’s only duty is to take care of family. Since women had no economic supports, they had to follower their husbands without doubts. Men believed that women should not work in outside, they would feel shame about it. All the people around them would judge the men, they would say that the men was poor, was useless that he had no ability to protect his whole family. Since men had to cover all economic pressure, he controlled the families’ future, men hold power and women had to rely on them. And this situation has been changed because …show more content…
Since WWII, women started to work outside to support whole family instead of staying at home. And during economic depression, men’s wages were totally not enough for them to support a whole family as before. And that is an important reason why most women could work outside freely without judgement and restriction. Economic can decide a group’s social class. However, “Global Women” by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russel Hochschild which is not a paper just talk about how women increase their social status through earing money for families, it focus on the issues that women faced while they had to work which is far away from home. At beginning, there is limit choices for women to work, and poor women usually decide to be a maid to serve a richer family. According to it, poor women can earn a lot of money than before, and on the other hands, they have to miss the time to take care of their own children. They usually ask their parents or sisters to take care of children, but none of them can take care of their mental issues. And this issue still apply to today’s society. If a women wants to apply a better future to her children, she has to work and would not able to take care of children. According to it, we can know that men dose none of contribution to their family expect of money. If a family without women, then the children would not grow up very