compartive analysis

Fretchen Webber, Christine Williams, Ann Duffy and Nancy Mandell are feminist writer. These feminist writers display the ideology of women in their writing. Fretchen Webber and Christine Williams looks at women’s lifestyle between work and domestic work. They look specifically at women who work part time and do unemployed domestic work. The point of this study is to analyze a mother’s lifestyle as they change their position as a full time employee to a part time employee and how this affect “gender division of labour” within their family. Fretchen Webber and Christine Williams interviewed 54 mothers that have “voluntary part time job” and collected their perspective on their lives dealing with work and domestic work. In Webber and William’s article “Part-Time Work and Gender Division of Labour”, analyzing the interviewed mothers’ perspective, they concluded that gender division of labour did affect these women’s lives. Many women felt pity for making their spouse do some of the domestic work and felt that it was their responsibility to do these domestic works. Through this example of how a mother feels pity when the spouse does domestic work. One realizes how this ideology of gender is entrenched within us. Ann Duffy and Nancy Mandell focuses on “Feminization of Poverty”. They analyze the cause of “Feminization of Poverty” and the progress to this solution that might help certain women be out of the poverty line or be right above the poverty line. In Ann Duffy and Nancy Mandell’s article, “The Growth of Poverty and Social Inequality: Losing Faith in Social Justice”, they argue that the cause of “Feminization of Poverty” deals with the ideology of gender and discrimination based on race. In the article, there are many statistic b...

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.... This shows that I am pessimistic. For instance, reading an article before the lecture or tutorial, I only focus on the amount of page left to read and focus on finishing the article would be the first thing in my head. I do not attentively focus on the author’s argument and what he/she wants to tell us. We do not focus until we have an assignment based on the reading. This is when we focus attentively in order to achieve good grades. As I read these two feminist articles, I realized how important these issues are. I realize how procrastination is part of student’s daily lives. It is up to us to recognize these social issues and think about how this will affect us in the future and the upcoming generations. This make me critically think about the ideology of gender and discrimination based on race and makes me wonder if it will change or be the same as it is today.