The Woman Who Toils Analysis

In both sources of “The Woman Who Toils” and “Jacob Riis Photographs of Immigrant Girls and Women,” indicates different ways of how women's experiences poverty and underpaid labor in the late nineteenth century differ from men. Men was the authority holder while women were the follower. Without much rights and education, women was uneducated and was not as knowledgeable as of compared to men. Due to this, many women such as unmarried and widow faced unimaginably difficult situations. Different from men, women faced domestic services, critically low wages, struggles, discomfort, etc. In the nineteenth century, to earn a living, many of women works as a factory worker to support themselves. The life of working in factories was not so pleasant, but no women dare to rebel against under any circumstances of their boss. All complaints and resentment coming from women workers were always seems to disappear within the air as they have no courage whatsoever to stand up for themselves. Tasks in the factory just get more and more difficult as the work labor changes from one to …show more content…
Women living in poverty and those underpaid faced a more difficult situation. Like those in poverty, women may have to make a living going through dumpster and other rubbish cans to feed themselves while underpaid women struggles in fighting through their pain and hustle to earn wages. Men, however, are more likely to make a better living and does not have to struggle as much as women does.
To sum up, women could not do much about their choices of life mainly because they are not as knowledgeable and men holds authority. They are uneducated compared to men who gets educated, had better benefits, and are more powerful. Due to women’s lack of education and authority, it keeps them from earning a better paid and out of poverty; therefore, it kept them in such