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Breadwinner Moms Response
Breadwinner Moms Response
(a)
The “Breadwinner Moms” include two distinct groups made up of about 5 million married mothers who have higher incomes compared to their husbands and about 8 million single mothers. The former category makes up for about 37% while the latter is about 63% of all mothers as the primary or sole provider. In the two categories, the income gap is significantly large. The median total family income for married mothers earning more than their spouses was more than $80000 in 2011 compared to a national median of about $57100 for families with children. Families led by a single mother averaged $23000. For married mothers making more than the husbands, the statistics reveal that they are likely to be older, white, and college educated. By contrast, single mothers are younger, likely from the Hispanic and Black ethnic groups, and less likely to be college educated.
(b)
In my opinion, the growth of Breadwinner Moms as group since the 1960s represents economic progress for all women. From 1960 to 2011, the percentage based on households with children under age 18 has changed from 10.8% to 40.4% for married mothers as the primary provider while the figures for single mothers have risen from 7.3% to 25.3%. this is an indication that women have steadily been on a curve of earning more. The same figures also point out to the factors relating to stratification, institutional sexism, and racism. Young black women are more likely to be single mothers, significantly earning less compared to white, college educated, married mothers. Institutional racism and sexism emerge as the public is less concerned by the emerging trend of single mothers, who primarily include young black and Hispanic women, who are less likely to have college education.
Does the increase in “breadwinner moms” point to a trend in the society where women have more family responsibility?
A Visit to Charity by Eudora Welty
Nehemie KabeyaMr. John Prince
Writing About Literature
March 19, 2021
A Visit to Charity by Eudora Welty
This paper aims to analyze how Eudora Welty establishes the mood or atmosphere in her Story, ‘A Visit to Charity.’ The story’s theme is that people’s selfishness might blind them to the needs of other individuals. In the Story, Marian, who was a young girl, decides to go and visit an elderly home. Marian is self-conscious, submissive, and harsh. In the Story, the author uses symbolism and vivid imagery to convey the cynical opinions upon a residential home for the elderly. All over the vivid imagery and diction, together with remarkable details within the passage, Welty provides insights to the reader on how they might feel towards the household of the elderly. The Story follows a campfire girl who becomes accustomed to a dweller of old folk to earn a badge. Upon getting to the room of the actualized women, Marian feels an enormous sense of dampness, which sets the mood for the rest of the Story. The elderly women suffered from persistent infighting, which causes both the main protagonist, Marian reader, and the reader uncomfortable.
The setting of the short also enables Welty to tell this Story in a perfect good. The Story’s action is taking place in a hospital setting, and it is in a hospital setting that Marian finds these ladies. They are in hospital supports their manner of behavior and taking since they may be under medication for some disease or just a condition they have, which makes them behave in such away. Therefore, the playset can be said to be congruent with the message of the Short Story. In Eudora Welty’s writing, several elements emphasize her characteristics of writing. The first thing is that she uses symbolism to bring the reader’s attention to how scared Marian is to be with the Old women. She asserts to one of the numerous aging women as a subject to be used and thrown away when the girl proclaims her visit’s objectives. “I’m a Campfire Girl…I have to pay a visit to several old lady”.
Welty uses a descriptive option that allows an individual who reads her work to be pulled into the Story and get a sense of how the setting can interpret the mood. She uses symbolism throughout this writing to aid the reader recognize how afraid Marian is to be in the nursing home. All over the tale, the author compares the elderly woman to a sheep. As the woman speaks, the author likens her voice to “a sheep bleating,” (Welty 221). She then tells the readers that “sheep’s bleating almost made her turn around and run back,” (222). This instance certainly demonstrates how afraid Marian was to be in the elderly women’s place. An additional instance is represented as a bird. When the woman wants to take Marian’s hat off, the author compares the woman’s hands to a bird’s claw. This comparison illustrates that Marian is not thinking concerning enjoyable things; as an alternative, she is concerned as she “held onto the back of the chair” and has thoughts about matters that intimidate her as the elderly woman does (222). By using descriptive setting, symbolism, and imagery, the reader is permitted into the Story and can comprehend how Marian feels, can feel the mood of the tale which is caused by the environment, and ultimately the reader is enabled to make their images of many different things throughout the Story.
Welty also uses imagery that allows the reader to use their imaginations and create pictures of the scenery and characters. In “A Visit of Charity,” Welty uses imagery and characterization made within the narrative to create a mood that creates a certain picture in an individual. One instance would be the portrayal of the hallway on lines 36-39, “There was loose, bulging linoleum on the floor. Mariam felt as if she was walking on the waves.” The imagery makes a level of decrepitude that disturbs the reader’s capability to empathize with any personality looking at women as nothing more than objects used by Mariam to earn only three points to her score.
Paradox signifies the use of phrases to tell something various from and frequently opposite to their actual meaning. Welty successfully uses this literature method to elucidate the styles of the Story. The title “A Visit sit of Charity” is rather ironic. There is no charity from Marian’s, the nurse’s, the two old girls, and the whole society’s perspective. The title contradicts the story’s denotation, charity signifies kindness towards others, and no one in this Story carries that out. Apart from symbolizing confinement and a compromised existence, the potted flowers add to the Story’s cynical tone because Marian will receive extra points in the Story’s cynical tone if she brought them as a gift. “A Visit to the Charity is typically Welty’s early fiction, both in the use of a tight, metaphor structure and in its focus on the problem and separateness, which Welty, has which Welty has made her most predominant fictional theme.
Works Cited
Welty, Eudora. The collected stories of Eudora Welty. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1982
Breadwinner Moms Peer Response
Breadwinner Moms Peer Response
Peer 1: Yanira
Your question on how gender roles have changed sets the tone for a future consideration of how Breadwinner Moms has influenced gender roles and changes therein. I believe that gender roles have evolved to include more participation from women in terms of family responsibilities. The report shows a steady increase of the income of women (in both categories: single mothers and married women) over five decades. The role of women, especially, has changed due to a growth of their income, more work opportunities, progress in trying to achieve equality, and empowerment. Today, there are many married women making significantly more than their husbands, changing their role from contributors to primary breadwinners. Although institutional sexism still makes it hard for women to fully take up leadership positions in the workplace, their roles in the home settings have shifted to equal those of men in the conventional world. Although some women in the minority ethnic groups are still lagging behind as the role of other women evolve, I would say that as equality is gradually attained, more women will take on the responsibilities of primary providers.
Peer 2: Timmy
The element of race plays a significant role in the conversation about Breadwinner Moms and the challenges that ethnicity introduces. I believe that different races have different experiences and the problems or issues increase for the minority groups such as Hispanic and Black moms, compared to Asians and Whites. Traditionally, white women have earned significantly more than any other racial group. While this may be seen as irrelevant, it is important in showing that empowered women have a higher chance of being primary providers compared to those still dependent on their spouses or family for individual and household responsibilities. The concepts of stratification and institutional racism are of significance in understanding how different categories of Breadwinner Moms experience life. For example, black women are more likely to be single mothers without college education and at a very young age. Such categorization means that the chances of being primary providers is reduced, even where no spouses are available.