Interview and Learning Resources Summary

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Interview Summary.

The subject of the interview was Mrs. Jack Peralta a war veteran. Mrs. Jack served in the army for 17 years. The interview was conducted through two face to face sessions. I then sent follow up questions to the respondent via email. We covered a range of topics from the perception held by women on housework, women in the military, and oppression against women from developing nations.

Learning resources summary.

Mainardi, P. (1970). The politics of housework (pp. 1945-2000). New England Free Press. Reterieved from: https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/pat-mainardi-the-politics-of-housework/

Mainardi explores the various arguments and justifications that are given by men to justify not equally contributing to the work load at home. Among the reasons and justifications that are presented are the belief that housework is beneath them, the reasoning that even the leaders of animals are male, and the belief that male are superior (Mainardi, 1970). If equality is ever to be achieved in the workplace, then participation needs to start from home. Men oppress women but they never realize it or better still they close a blind eye to it because they are the beneficiaries. The shift in this is however hard to achieve because of the tendency of people to glorify the oppressor. Men are glorified for not equally sharing work at home; how then can equality in the workplace be achieved?

Abbe A. (2020). The Balancing Act for Female Officers War Room – U.S. Army War College, powered by WordPress. Retrieved from: https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/balancing-act/

Abbe (2020) discusses the informal barriers that face women in the military. The major barrier against women is the perception that warriors are supposed to be masculine which presents both an overt and a subtle obstacle. The culture has charted a path and set expectation that force men and women to be limited in terms of how they work but the challenges that are presented against women are by far stiffer. The high expectations act as a factor that limit the number of women that are retained by the service. According to Abbe, meaningful progress can only be obtained if male leaders were to be engaged in a deliberate effort to change the culture at the workplace.

Kang, M., Lessard, D., Heston, L., & Nordmarken, S. (2017). Introduction to women, gender, sexuality studies. Independent. Retrieved from: http://openbooks.library.umass.edu/introwgss/chapter/introduction/

Kang et al., discusses the complexities that surround the context within which work is defined and compensated (2017). Work is described as an arena that intersects with multiple social inequalities and which result in it influencing how people enjoy their jobs, and whether the jobs offer them the fulfillment that is supposed to be derived from working. The article raises the question of who is expected to care for children when the mothers decide that they want to work full time careers. Is that not a definition of inequality on a global scale to the women from the low income countries?