Introduction Part VIII women workers' situation around the world varies by?

Women compared to men

Who's in power

Mothers- government protects them

Family Leave

Industrialization

Company leaves- become part of the entertainment industry

Technology hierarchy- women segregated at the bottom

Women are pressured not to use the "family friendly" policies and to work more in the US

Globaization impacts the workers worldwide- few rights and enslaved by their employers

What is Workfare and what does it ensure?

Welfare was brought about mid 1990s

Able bodied people are expected to get a job

Replaces welfare and provides jobs

Welfare clients who cannot find a ob were given a choice of losing all of their benefits or working in the public sector in exchange for a mothly welfare stipend.

Participants were not protected under minimum wage provisions or national fair labor standards.

Used welfare recipients to replace unionized workers

Unfair treatment to illegal immigrant mothers and their legal children

Insures American employers of demanding wage increase, organizing unions and protesting inhumane working conditions are cut off

Personal Responsibility & Work Opprotunity Reconciliation Act of 1996- what are the provisions and Assumptions?

Workfare is laid out

No protection that is normally associated with Civil Rights

Minimum wage or less garanteed

Established a maximum five-year lifetime limit on cash benefits and stipulated that at least 80% of each state's welfare recipients must be working a minimum number of hours within 2 years

Attack on worker's rights

Served to covert means for immigration reform, new lines of stratification between citizens and noncitizens making citizenship a requirement for most social entitlements in the US

Ann Crittenden writes of strategies used by mothers in the workforce, what are they?

Nannies

Extended families

Are their laws that protect parents against employment discrimination?

Nope

Ehrenreich & Hochschild write about imigrant nanies, who benefits?

Protection

Business that employes nannies

Parents

Fathers- extra income and cheap labor

The sex industry

Zarembka writes about domestic workers and the special visas issued by US State Department.

Will issue visas for certain people like European nnaies, but no protection is offered

Employees of international agencies

Diplomats

Are there shelters currently existing in the US for trafficked women?

No

How much does it cost to manufacture a pair of sneakers?

Materials: $9.18

Labor: $1.66 per worker

Subcontractor's Profit: $1.19

Administration and Overhead: $2.82

Nike Markup: $22.95

Retail Markup: $32.20

Total: about $70

What happens to Korean unemployed woem when when the factory leaves?

Become part of the entertainment (sex) industry

Bars and massage parlors offering sexual services that had mushroomed around US military bases during the Cold War

Anderson writes about the 'cult of athleticism'; what is it? what about violence?

Encourages homophobia

Might male rights

Must be tough and masculine with little emotions

Express uniformity in thought and action- benevolent to the ideology of orthodox masculinity

Sacrifice for those who are homosexual

Intentionally hurt teammates

What is the precent of childhood and/or adult abuse among poor and work-clas white women as reported?

Enviroment itself is violent and advantage neighborhoods

Wealhty- keep it quiet vs. cant hold it in

92% of white women reported being abused

Who is more likely to tell abut abuse they have suffered?

Women who can afford to support themselves

Are men inherently violent and women inherently nonviolent according to Kaye/Kantrowitz?

No; viewed differently to the public based off the victim.

Young men and fictionalized portrayals of men's violence against women in media, outcome?

Sexualized before brutalized

Jackson Katz' ideas about cultrual environment and violence?

Thrive in an environment where men's violence is not only tolerated but often encouraged.

Experience of young women from disadvantaged communities?

 They are brutalized, raped, battered, and murdered because it is accepted in the communities.

The violence inflicted on them is not rebellious of the norm.

Men would sexualized relatiohips with them;

more vulnerable to predation by neighborhood men hanging around on street corners, are less likely to be protected by the law, and enjoy less access to resources that would help them heal from the trauma that occurs in their young lives

Laurie Schaffner and violence in the media

Average child is exposed to 8,000 television murders and more than 100,000 other violent acts by the time they enter the seventh grade

Exposure to violence in the media may result in young people becoming less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others, being more fearful of the world around them, and possibly behaving in more aggressive or harmful ways toward others

Terry Kupers on male rape?

Homosexual rape is a cnastant threat for those who cannot prove they are "man enough"

Goodwin and sex tours from the US to Third World, how are they advertised?

Sex tours- women are more compliant, want to please men, traditional women to be the perfect house wife, explotation of foriegners

Advertise openly for other countries

Advertise that American women are golddiggers and oriental women will do anything for a man

What is Desiree Taylor's assessment of the US?

Disadvantage neighborhoods, women of color, never feeling safe in the US, disadvantage economically

It is a cruel place to live

cheap

Abu Ghraib and Bush Administration decription of prostitution

Organizational atmosphere

There are bad apples in the company

Clean it up and dscipline the apples

Make light of what is going on

Rules do not apply to the government, fear of underminding the unit and disgracing them

Military definition of sexual assault

unless you are raped, it is not considered sexual assault

Ignored by the military

"rape; nonconsensual sodom; unwanted inappropriate sexual contact of fondling; or attmepts to commit these acts"

Estaminet number of uninsured people antionwide in 2005

46.6 million people

Females live longer than males in the US; what proportion is due to gender-related behavior?

A lot due to female behavior

Risky behvior and occupations for men

Stress

 Men of color and health outcome are attibuted to.... According to Don Sabo

Suffer more than anglo men because they have more stress, work/home enviroment, advantages, and diet

disproportionately poor, more apt to work in low-paying and dangerous occupations

reside in polluted environments

exposed to toxic substances

experience the threat and reality of crime

worry about meeting basic needs

Number one killer of Native American men?

Alcoholism

Others include: diabetes, tobacco, stress due to unemployment

 Proportion of male college students who report binge drinking.

Well over 50% of students

 Incarceration rate in US compared to the world

One of the highest in jail and prison

1.3 million men

Healthcare: uninsured or under insured women vs. men

More women are uninsured than men

Teahcers use to be expected to find a husband to provide insurance

15% less likely to offer health care in certain jobs

20% more likely than uninsured men to have trouble obtaining health care

17 million uninsured women in America

 What do Asian American communities focus on? and what do they leave out?

Focuse on: education, housing, health care, child care

Leave out: women's health, birth control, delivery

 Steingraber and breast feeding, what is her concern and why?

The chemicals found in plastics are found in breastmilk which is more concnetrated for the baby.

Particularly PVC dioxins

 Leading cause of death for Latino men since 1991

Alcoholism

AIDs

 How do Lation men who have sex with men identify themselves?

never consider themselves 'ga' at all, a derogatory term that they would apply only to those howm they consider the their 'poassive' partners

They view themselves heterosexual

 Kai Wright and the primary needs of transgendr/transitioning individutals?

Need counceling and they are often ignored

 Transgendered are clincially identified as....

Gender disofria- denial of gender

gender-identity-disorder

 Charlotee Bunch on abuse typically perpetrated agains women and not men?

Sexually, verbally and job discrimination

abortion of femal fetuses

restricted nutrition

lack of control ver their bodies

overt violence against them

Aim of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS)

Presepctive that is pro-feminist, gay-affirmative, and committed to justice on a broad range of social issues including race, class, age, religion, and physical abilities

Oppose such insjutices to women as economic and legal discrimination, rape, domestic violence, sexual harrasment, and etc.

Marc Anthony Neal on the New Black Man

New Image

Conscious of possission of women in society and communities

To not be homophobic

Be loving fathers

Music (hip-hop) is a problem with black youth

To be strong men

Daisy Hernandez and the label of 'feminist'? What has feminism left out?

Ogranziation for anglo women

Intersection of gender, race and class

Largely focused on the concerns of the middle-class white woman

Precentage of Muslims in global communities

23%

it is a head covering; some think that urging complete unveiling is a key to unleashing an authentic liberation

She declares herself a womanist, a feminist rooted in the traditions of Sista Alice Walker

Modesty- keep it out of the thoughts of others, and it is their choice

and out of respect

 What is the "reframin security" campaign in Israel? What is the aim?

To broaden the understanding of security in Israel to include all aspects of "human security"- a society that cares for its poor, reduces violence, protects its natural resources, and co-exists in peace with its neighbors.

Reflects a shift of strategy for Islam, invest their best efforts in outreach to populations that do not share their views, engaging them in ways they hope will change their minds.

1979

rights of women were finally enshrined in the transnational human rights perspective

any law to say anything unhumane about women can be condemned

What did the CEDAW do?

descrimination against women as any distinction, exclustion, or restriction made on the basis of sex, which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil, or any other field.

Attempting to put a stop to abuse against women world wide

 Are women's right the same as 'human rights'?

No, not until resently

Enslaved women did not have freedoms

 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action states what?

Change laws that discriminate against women

The human rights of women and of the girl-child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of the universal human rights