Reflection / Comments on feminist
Reflection / Comments on feminist
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ASSESSMENT: WRITE YOUR COMMENTS/ REFLECTIONS
Click on this link below. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-us-economy-does-not-value-caregivers/282887/
You are required to read it careful and then write a critical reflection/ COMMENT about this ARTICLE. You have to think about women and feminism. Here you could explore, how this directly relates to you. This exploration will take different directions depending on your personal situation, such as being a young woman yourself or you might be a mother and are looking at it through this lens or you might be looking back at your own youth or you might be a boyfriend to a young woman and looking at the topic through those lenses and what it means to you directly. As you can see, the possible scenarios are endless, but all of them have in common that you can explore them through a feminist reflection and then draw your own conclusions.
N.B: YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR OWN WORDS AT LEAST 85%. No references required
These are some questions you have to think about:
An aspect I would like to add to the presented literature here is my questions about how much do we (as a society) value care giving? If we are looking at it from an economic perspective, it appears as if it’s not very high up the value list, but pretty much down at the bottom of priorities. Why do I think this way? Well, caring professions are not very well paid compared to others. I would argue that it takes more or at least a different kind of skill to care for an elderly person or a young child than driving a dump truck on a mine site…so, why do we value both skill sets so differently? (not mentioning here all the unpaid care work done by, mostly, women for family members). Even though its addressed to an American audience, I think we can draw plenty of parallels to Australian society.
