Melissa J. Doak Model Of Gender Inequality

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Gender inequality has been an abiding battle for centuries. Melissa J. Doak, author of Money, Income, and Poverty, states that “a wage survey taken in 1833 in Philadelphia found that most women workers in local textile factories received less for working seventy-eight hours per week than men were getting for one ten-hour day.” The question is why, after 180 years, this still continues to be an issue? Throughout history we see that men have become the breadwinners, while women were at home taking care of the children and carrying out household chores. This model created expectations of what both men and women were supposed to do in society. Therefore, this prototype or new stereotype of living didn’t provide many opportunities for women in the

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