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Ashley Ocasio Katia Ferrer Artik Rodríguez Zuleika Torres English 125 Prof. Evelyn Lugo. Universidad del Este Recinto de Carolina. Oppression of Woman through Time. Introduction. How are women oppressed? What are the causes of women oppression? If culture justify oppression?
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Ashley Ocasio Katia FerrerArtik RodríguezZuleika TorresEnglish 125Prof. Evelyn Lugo Universidad del Este Recinto de Carolina Oppression of Woman through Time
Introduction • How are women oppressed? • What are the causes of women oppression? • If culture justify oppression? • Benefits for working class men • Consequences for working men • What can we do about it?
Examples of Oppression • Women are exploited and face oppression every day. In the workplace women are forced into low paying, insecure and unskilled jobs. • When they come home they have to face another shift of housework with little help from their husbands or boyfriends. • If this is not enough, women have to deal with violence. Thousands of women a year are raped, beaten or emotionally abused. • This are some of the things and situations many woman are going through.
Causes • Conservatives argue that women's oppression is natural. They say that women are biologically inferior to men. For example, they say that women are less intelligent than men or less capable of doing certain tasks. • The root of women's oppression lies in the division of society into classes. • Women's oppression is in the direct interest of capitalism and the State. By giving women the worst work, with no job security and low wages, the bosses create a super- cheap workforce, which they can hire and fire at will.
Cont. Causes • Bosses keep their labor costs low and their profits high by hiring women as casual or part- time workers and denying them rights and benefits- such as maternity rights.
Culture in Women's Oppression • Some people say that women must accept their inferior position in society because it is part of their culture. This is very problematic. • Women play an important part in their culture. Women have the right to strive for liberation within in their own cultures. Women have the right to shape and change the cultures to which they belong. • If something in a culture oppresses women, we oppose it- just like we oppose any other thing that oppresses women.
Example of Culture Oppression Islam, Arabia, Muslims, Africa, etc. are some of the cultures that women is oppress
Benefits for Men • Working class men do receive some short-term benefits from oppressing women. Working class men are frustrated and humiliated in their racist and authoritarian work environments. They may also feel inadequate if they are unemployed. • Many working class men feel better if they believe that they are superior to women. They feel that at least they can demand dignity and respect from women. Men may also benefit if their wives do all the housework. This ensures that men workers have more free time for themselves.
Consequences for Men • By threatening to replace better paid men workers with women workers wages are lower for all workers. • The bosses are able to use women's oppression to divide and rule over all workers. This makes it difficult for workers to unite and fight for better wages and conditions. • If women are paid less they are unable to contribute to the family income. Thus the whole family suffers. Conflict over money leads to misery for both men and women.
What can we do about it? All workers, men and women must unite fight for: • Equal pay for equal work • Women's access to jobs that are traditionally denied to them • Job security for women • Paid maternity and guaranteed re-employment • End to all violence against women
CONCLUSION In conclusion: • The attitudes of men may contribute to women's oppression, but working class men have a lot to loose through women's oppression. • Men should unite with their female comrades and fight women's oppression. • Men must do a fair share of the housework.
