American Gender Roles
Introduction For decades the female gender has been considered to be the lesser. In this paper, which has been compiled after going through many scholarly articles, it is factual that the female gender could easily pass as the most powerful influence on earth and the greatest contributor to the world economies. From the villages of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the woman has been used as the "beast of burden." Tilling the family land to put food on the table, bringing forth life and nurturing children, fetching water, carrying firewood, caring for the sick family members and the list goes on. This would definitely pass for a fulltime job. If the women were not present to take care of the social needs of society including raising children,
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How much a country produces in terms of goods and services within a specified period. Both goods and services are a product of effort or work. It is therefore right to justify that work will not only amount to that which is for commercial production but also for personal consumption. If this theory is sustained, then surveys may reveal that women 's time contribution in domestic activities and caring for their households far exceeds that of men. When further observed, "women’s working day exceeds that of men by 3/4 of an hour in France, one hour in Madagascar and South Africa and by more than two hours in Benin." (Scientific news sheet # 236, …show more content…
China or India, may seem as the giants in the rising but with women 's global earning power expected to hit $18trillion dollars by 2014; that is more than the combined GDP of both these countries. In China, albeit the economic crisis, domestic spending rose by 15% within the first 9 months of 2012. A larger percentage driving this was women under 35years of age. Today in the US, the number of working women are equal to that of men and is growing. Yet despite the earning gender disparities in the US where the women to men earnings ratio is 77 cents to a dollar, women have still been the larger contributors to the domestic spending. According to a world bank report, US immigrant workers wired $300 billion to their native countries; the larger percentage coming from women. (Voigt
How much a country produces in terms of goods and services within a specified period. Both goods and services are a product of effort or work. It is therefore right to justify that work will not only amount to that which is for commercial production but also for personal consumption. If this theory is sustained, then surveys may reveal that women 's time contribution in domestic activities and caring for their households far exceeds that of men. When further observed, "women’s working day exceeds that of men by 3/4 of an hour in France, one hour in Madagascar and South Africa and by more than two hours in Benin." (Scientific news sheet # 236, …show more content…
China or India, may seem as the giants in the rising but with women 's global earning power expected to hit $18trillion dollars by 2014; that is more than the combined GDP of both these countries. In China, albeit the economic crisis, domestic spending rose by 15% within the first 9 months of 2012. A larger percentage driving this was women under 35years of age. Today in the US, the number of working women are equal to that of men and is growing. Yet despite the earning gender disparities in the US where the women to men earnings ratio is 77 cents to a dollar, women have still been the larger contributors to the domestic spending. According to a world bank report, US immigrant workers wired $300 billion to their native countries; the larger percentage coming from women. (Voigt