Gender Differences In Social Work

In, “Halving the Double Day” by Dorothy Sue Cobble, she realizes that women get the bitter end of having a poor socio-economic status. Women are more burdened than men with balancing activities. Cobble states, “But none feel the pressure more than those juggling full-time employment with what can seem like a second shift at home” (Cobble, 1). Cobble believes that women, especially in lower income households face more stress and have less time to do things they want in life because they are burdened with finding and working in jobs as well as balancing house hold duties. Unlike men, who’s primary role in the household is to go out and work, women now who are in lower income families have to take on both roles assisting in income and doing house work. Furthermore, Cobble emphasizes that only those who are rich can benefit from the vast benefits that outsiders see in living in America. Cobble states, “Similarly the highly touted family-friendly workplace-the coveted market nook with flexible work schedules, job sharing, child care assistance, and comprehensive health and welfare coverage-is not yet a reality for the majority of salaried workers, let alone hourly workers”

Women have been a vital key to the shaping and progression of our society. Throughout time, women’s roles and opportunities in the family, workplace, and society have greatly evolved. They started from being housewives that don’t have many rights, even in the household, to being valued citizens in our

During the 1600s England was sending many adventurers and colonists to the new world to settle it. One famous colonist was John Smith. Smith was a leader in the Jamestown settlement in 1606, where he encountered natives, and survived being captured and imprisoned by them. Also notable among the famous colonists was William Bradford. Bradford led the Plymouth colony, which was founded in 1620. The colony survived major sickness and lack of food, but the natives were sympathetic with the Plymouth colonist, and taught them how to live off the land. Both Smith and Bradford wrote of their adventures in the new world, but they both had very different reasons for being there, which is evident in their writings

Women too today take up more employment opportunities than any time before and this has changed the dynamic of the household, often with the child left in the care of strangers while their parents are working a scenario that would have been unthinkable before the Industrial Revolution and something that has negatively impacted on society and the quality of family life.

Women are using their salary for their family's food, health care and education, these are their necessities. When they invest their money on these things they are helping lift entire communities out of poverty. This improves the lives of everyone in the community in many ways, making their day-to-day life much more worthwhile. Without backing women do not obtain sufficient income and their families don't receive their mere necessities.

It seems that women workers have reached a plateau in society. In order for women to be respected (as men are) in the workplace there needs to be a redistribution of domestic and family work. It’s acceptable now for women to work; but this acceptance into the workforce has not drastically changed what they, women, are expected to perform at home. There is no way for women to move forward to equality in pay if they are not recognized as contributers to their job (i.e. women are still expected to perform outside of work in the family setting as well in a way that men are only expected to perform at work and not at home).

At the end of the century, women represent nearly half the work force in the United States (47%), but 57% of those living in poverty ("No Easy Path" 1997; Sheng et al. 1996). Only about 10% of women work in NTOs, despite the fact that they can earn 25-30% more than those in traditional occupations (WOW 1993). Welfare reform makes this a serious concern, because the "types of jobs that welfare recipients can get without higher education or nontraditional job training do not pay adequate wages to lift women and their families out of poverty" (Bloomer, Finney, and Gault 1997, p. 2).

It is often expected of women to be the primary caretakers for their families’, a notion which is reinforced through public policy in the United States. The United States is one of the only developed countries which does not

Feminist theory has developed through education of higher learning to advocate for social justice and gender inequality amongst race, class, and sexual identity. As gender and sex are the two-important stereotypes that determine the masculine and feminine responsibility in the workplace and relationship, dominant men utilize power women to devalue their ability and make them feel powerless. Feminist theory is a concern in the social work practice to women and all persons, as social workers help the necessities through assessments and interventions. Social workers incorporate theories of empowerment and feminist theory in a combination to help individuals, families, and people to gain control and improve their situation.

The differences of communication between male and female gender affect social work education when the 3 areas are concerned: training students for social work, interaction between staff members and interaction between students and faculty members. Communication is one very significant tool in the social work where teaching and developing of relations is concerned. This article explains gender difference from perspective of cross-culture. Men listen to act accordingly and women listen so that they could complete some missing scenario and ask more questions than men. Conversation topics are started by women though concluded finally by men. According to research, women interrupt more and generally males talk more. There are many biological

The rise of the service economy has increased tendency for service workers to engage in emotional labour meanwhile increase the employment opportunities for women (Nixon, 2009). However, women remains concentrated in low paid and low status occupations in the contemporary economy as opposed to men. The workplace culture is gendered due to the social expectation towards the occupations that reinforce existing stereotypes and cultural expectation about the gender in the workplace (Nixon, 2009; Kerfoot and Marek Korczynski, 2015; Hanser, 2012). Hochschild (1983) suggested that a job requires emotional labour when its performance involves direct interaction with customers or colleagues (Nixon, 2009). For instance, service workers are required to

Placing myself as the school social worker would be difficult undertaking for me, due to my value system. Although, I may have different values than this young teen, a social worker must "met their clients where they are at". "Starting where the client is" encompasses discovering and aligning a client's motivational driver in which the social worker works alongside the client to empower and advocate for their values (Hepworth, D. H., Rooney, R. H., Rooney, G. D., & Strom-Gottfried, K.,2017). If my young client feels that inside he is a young woman, then I should start where she is and advocate for her wishes.

In the quite hours of early morning my mother rises out of bed, as she has done every morning for the past twenty-two years. She quietly begins her long day by making tea and cooking breakfast. Before the day ends, my mother would have cooked several meals, cleaned several times and worked a full time job. My mother’s daily routine is not unique and has historically been done by women for centuries. Even today, women are supposed to do it all, have a family, and take care of the house/children and work full-time. Women who are in the workforce are unpaid and the work they do at home is viewed as inferior. They often deal with sexism and racism in the workplace. Changes in law and our thought process need to occur to create and an equitable system of work for all women.

I came to Davidson Library on Wednesday at 12:30. When I walk in, I saw 6 workers at the front desk, 5 of which are female. 1 Female worker has a darker skin color, the rests are White. The tuck shop is open, I saw 3 workers in it without customers. The amount of people on first floor is obviously more than last week. With easily more than 30 students, most were studying individually. I saw 4 groups of 2 students studying together. 3 groups are Asian males, only 1 group is of different gender and race (estimate to be Latino). There are more students studying with their laptop and text book than those who uses the desktop provided here. I saw more Asians on first floor than other race, and I saw more males than females. Most are studying without

One of the key notions of women working that we talked about in class is the belief that women who work are “just helping out”, or creating “fun money”. Since this observation focusses on my family, I will talk about my experience with my Mom working. Even though what she brings home pales in comparison to what my Dad makes, she is the primary reason why I am fortunate enough to be able to graduate with no debt. She has literally saved a potential 10 years of paying debt from my life, that is not “just helping out”, that is making a vast measurable difference in the quality of an individual’s life. The system of shared spheres that my parents set up has worked very well for us, challenging the gender norms of our native Pakistani culture and giving my sister and I a different gendering process, compared to