The setting of Carlos Fuentos story Malintzin of the Maquilas is important for the readers understanding bad conditions Mexican Women went through in a normal day. Mexican Women are the sole providers for their family, with most men not able to find work. This leads to most women not wanting to get married even if the women have a child. Women know that they would have to support not only a child but also a husband which leaves a lot of moms not having anyone to watch their child while at work. At work you see the women get sexual harassed by both male and female supervisors. Then when women think they found a good man they lie and go behind the women’s back. The four main characters in Malintzin of the Maquilas demonstrate the conditions
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For example when Dinorah (Single Mother) says “What for? Around Here men don’t work. You want me to support two instead of one?” (Fuentes 2). This is her point of view on the role of men in their lives. Dinorah makes this statement as saying having a man in your life is a worse than not having one. Later in the story Rose Lupe meets Marina and Dinorah on the bus she tells them “been working in the plants four years but her husband- Her family- still hadn’t found work. Who would take care of the children” (Fuentes 3). Dinorah view of marriage was right and that she is taking care of more than just her child. Thus it is clear that women are better off without men in their …show more content…
This can include disparate treatment such as low pay, no upward mobility, and poor representation in higher ranking jobs. This is portrayed throughout the story while the women are at they workplace. Fuentes gets in depth with showing each way by talking how pay comes nowhere close to the US. Also in his story he talks about how there is no upward mobility so the women move sideways to different plants. Lastly poor representation in higher ranking jobs is shown by the women supervisor (Valentine and Rafik 2000). Sexual harassment is hard to view through a different genders or races way of seeing it. This is from the different way society views norms. Men never will know what women had to go thought but they can understand what they went through. Everyone has different viewpoints of what sexual harassment is. People perceive the outcomes of sexual harassment differently (Richardson & Taylor
For example when Dinorah (Single Mother) says “What for? Around Here men don’t work. You want me to support two instead of one?” (Fuentes 2). This is her point of view on the role of men in their lives. Dinorah makes this statement as saying having a man in your life is a worse than not having one. Later in the story Rose Lupe meets Marina and Dinorah on the bus she tells them “been working in the plants four years but her husband- Her family- still hadn’t found work. Who would take care of the children” (Fuentes 3). Dinorah view of marriage was right and that she is taking care of more than just her child. Thus it is clear that women are better off without men in their …show more content…
This can include disparate treatment such as low pay, no upward mobility, and poor representation in higher ranking jobs. This is portrayed throughout the story while the women are at they workplace. Fuentes gets in depth with showing each way by talking how pay comes nowhere close to the US. Also in his story he talks about how there is no upward mobility so the women move sideways to different plants. Lastly poor representation in higher ranking jobs is shown by the women supervisor (Valentine and Rafik 2000). Sexual harassment is hard to view through a different genders or races way of seeing it. This is from the different way society views norms. Men never will know what women had to go thought but they can understand what they went through. Everyone has different viewpoints of what sexual harassment is. People perceive the outcomes of sexual harassment differently (Richardson & Taylor