Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism and Anti-Racism
Who knew it was going to be so hard………………..
Challenges of women coping with social inequality
Social inequality exists, within all cultures, Himani discusses the inequality that she has struggled with since arriving to Canada, I found myself comparing her struggles to all women who are not, white, privileged and middle class. Her essays , are a dedication to women who have to fight for their space, been beaten down with labels, and had to struggle with governed systems both socially and academically, at the workplace that have been dominated by white middle class norms. The enlightenment that Himani discusses in her essays on inequality and race/gender, by comparison these issues also exist in single parents, abused women a Inequality, the female, the struggle
The battered and abused single female parent, single non-white female, being female, What do all of these have in common?
Government and social programs have failed in meeting their needs to gain equality in the work place, communities, and status, and pay.
Single white/ non-white female parents, in Canada it is commonly known that over 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, which means that there are thousands of children who are being solely raised by their mothers. Why are Single females (both white and non-white women) raising their children at or below the poverty level? Systems that are in place are not enforced by any governing body, the family responsibility, social assistance, daycare needs, further education to produce productive wage earners are inaccessible, or so limited that inhibits single mothers from using the system to gain fair employment, status, or the court ordered child support that is needed to raise their children and build equity for their future.
Single mothers, they are responsible for the needs of the children and the bulk are struggling
Cited: Bannerji, Himani. Thinking through: Essays on Feminsin, Marxism and Anti-Racism. Toronto: 1995. Donnan, Linda and lenton, Sue. Helping Ourselves. Toronto: Womens Press, 1995.