An Unmarried Woman

Introduction Employees in today’s workplace deal with long hours, demanding employers, high stress jobs, and low pay. Women deal with the stress of balancing the demand of work while trying to have a family, they receive less promotions, and few women hold senior level positions. The demand from employers and the lack of work-life balance programs have caused women to abandon opportunities in corporations, but rather pursue family goals, and others their own business. American corporations are…

After years of fighting for equality in America, inequality is still the norm. Inequality still exists in the workplace because of sex, race, and education. The question to be answered is why does inequality still such a problem in a country that was built off the premise of equality. One of the largest inequalities that face the workplace is pay gaps between genders. Women and men are still paid differing salaries for the same professions. One of the beliefs that continue to…

being saved by a man and getting help by a man. Women want to feel independent and do things on their own and that’s why Berry feels that men are useless in the kitchen, he doesn’t understand why women turn down men when they ask for help. When a woman is good at something they don’t want or need the help, Berry thinks its offensive when women reject men when it comes to cooking, but women also think it is offensive because they are always being asked if they need help, and what they really want…

females. In these types of advertisements, men are normally on top of a woman or above her in some way, while the woman is usually underneath him. If both the woman and the man are advertising standing up, the man generally has his arm around her neck or waist or the female is hiding behind the male, proving his power and dominance. One may argue that these types of observations are simply modeling, but if that is so, why is the woman never dominating the…

to make valid points on how women are under men in the workforce. While interviewing a friend that has been in a higher position than men, she showed me the inside story on how woman are treated. The study tested that women are still arguing and fighting for equality in society, but especially in the workforce. As a woman myself, I find it very important that women have equality, but that others are educated on the subject as well. I feel as if the gender of your body should not put a hold on…

stories. Authors such as Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid are both from the Caribbean and has evoked similar experiences being a woman in their writing. Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Like many families of the Caribbean, her mother and father moved to the U.S. and left her to stay with her aunt and uncle. Edwidge had many obstacles of being a woman such as growing up without having her mother in her life.…

his time running linguistic circles around everyone, Audrey has a very hard time with basic vocabulary. However, it is not with words that Audrey conveys her part in criticism on feminism, but rather through how she is treated. As a poor uneducated woman she is taken advantage of frequently (quote). By doing this Shakespeare is able to show how women were regarded as inferior to men and were often…

rights. Some people were for empowering women and some were for keeping women in the home looking beautiful and waiting for their knight in shining armor. In an Artist’s Studio you can see where the artist stands and what he thinks is best for a woman. The woman in the painting isn’t even given a name as if that wasn’t dehumanizing. It shows you that her only job was to please and nothing else. Her sole purpose was to be his muse “smiling at him with kind eyes every day”. Could you imagine what…

After a woman gives birth it should be the most joyous stage in her life. Entering motherhood is the most beautiful gift a woman can possess. Unfortunately, for the woman in the short story The Yellow Wallpaper it doesn’t happen for her. The woman in this story has a baby, and suffers from postpartum depress. Her husband and brother are physicians, their health advice for her leads to her being locked in a room. Dealing with isolation from her baby, family, and friends causes her to lose her…

for nearly all people, but women are still not paid as they should be. In the work force, it also seems as if women are not given the same opportunities as their male coworkers. More often than not, a man will be given the job of higher power over a woman. Many would believe that women are not capable of holding a higher position because it is believed that their judgement might be clouded by “hormones”. Women are more than capable of being a higher…