The Feminization Of Gender Inequality

The long shadow is essentially the life trajectory of a person as predicted by their background and resources. It is used to describe inequality by taking their race, neighborhood, level of education, and socioeconomic status as determined by their parents and making it the grounds on which their chances of success is nurtured or limited. Regardless of the reason why or how they got are there, it becomes the margin for their life. On page 125, it states that “42% of children born into families at the bottom rung of the income ladder remain there as adults and mobility across the extremes for family status is rare”. The mobility or immobility of a generation is solely based on the resources they inherit from their parents. A person’s “destination” …show more content…
In class, we discussed the chapters on transitioning to adulthood and socioeconomic destinations. The feminization of poverty is a real factor that casts a lot of women into this shadow. The glass ceiling for women doesn’t just include unequal pay for equal work, but it is the flexibility issue with having multiple roles. Women are expected to care for their children no matter what it means sacrificing, whereas men aren’t held to as high of a standard as long as they are working. Men are financial security and stability while women take on being housekeepers, mothers, and employees all at the same time and their jobs never end. This is not to say that men don’t contribute other things to the family, but women are expected to do it all in the eyes of society which is why women and children end up being the most impoverished population and mass incarceration of black men makes this even worse for black women. Race is an additional burden to the differences that men and women have. Table 4.1 shows that black males have the highest unemployment rates, blacks live in the most concentrated communities, and blacks make about $2,000 below the average median income in Baltimore. It also shows that whites make more no matter what their SES is and regardless of their schooling. This is something that has become imbedded into people’s way of life and it too is a cycle that will be continuously inherited across generations. People believe that “it is what it is” and perhaps that’s how it should be. Race and gender factors are the slowest changes to come about and even if gender and racial inequality is publicly dissolved, they will always be an issue that have endless loopholes in private