The New Woman

Throughout the years the typical role of a woman has been to be a stay at home mother. However, more recently, this norm has been challenged and we’ve been seeing more and more women leaving the house to join the workforce. This is a great thing because it means more and more women are become independent and not having to rely on their husbands to support them. And while it’s a great thing that women are becoming this independent it can also be hard for them to learn how to balance work and family life. I searched online to see if there were any sites that offered any help to women who were having trouble balancing their job and family. Right away I found a very informative site.

Workingmother.com is a site especially designed for women who are working and have families. This site is meant to help women balance their family life and their work. If you know any working women with families I recommend you inform them about this site, it’s very helpful. Check it out for yourself here.

How Women are Portrayed

Something that has always bothered me is the way women in the music industry have to portray themselves in order to be successful. They basically have to wear diminutive outfits, showing large amounts of skin, and depicting themselves as pieces of meat in order to sell albums. This does not only lower the credibility of said artist but also degrades what it is to be a woman. By wearing this type of attire the artist is basically telling their public that their talent isn’t sufficient enough to be successful so that they must use the help of their body. Also, by using this dress, these artists are further objectifying women more that they usually are. And if that weren’t enough, artists that wear this attire are also influencing young girls into doing dressing this way. If you haven’t seen what I’m talking about here’s a Ninel Conde video, a latin artist that exemplifies the way women in the music industry portray themselves.

Discrimination Against Black Women

As I read Free Papers by Daniel J. Wideman I realized that the piece concentrated on the issue of young black men being discriminated against. Not once was discrimination against young black women mentioned. Discrimination against black women isn’t only disregarded only in this piece but in many other places in society. Since this issue is so ignored I decided to do a bit of research and find out in what ways black women were most discriminated against and how they dealt with it. I was also curious to learn if they were more heavily discriminated against than black men because of their gender.

The most useful and informational article that I found was Black Women: The Unfinished Agenda by Cecilia A. Conrad in The American Prospect. This article explained how black women are discriminated against both because of their race and gender. Hence, even though black women have advanced so much in the fields of education they still earn less than black men, white women, and white men. The unemployment rates are also a lot higher for black women than all the previous categories mentioned. The article goes on to explain the detrimental effects of discrimination against black women. It’s a very interesting and enlightening article, I recommend everyone to read it.