Elaine Hall’s essay
Part: A
In the Doing Gender by Giving “Good Service” essay Elaine Hall describes the differences between gender -in- organization perspective and the gendered organization approach and how they are both define in the work environment.
The author describes how gender in-organization is different for women and men and it implies that different gender has different approach to the same kind of work. The different genders also are view differently by costumers. (in p.454) This article describes how for example police women are trying to resolve the gender role between being women and a police officers. How the gender expectations and behavior when harassment is involved these behaviors are inappropriate.
In gendered organization approach (in p.454) it describes that the type of job a person chooses will imply the gender at work. This approach is different than gender in organization approach because it tells us that men and women bring different gender behaviors to work. But the gender organization approach implies that the type of job determines how men and women behave differently when it comes to the work environment.
When addressing the way, gender is constructed within and between restaurants. All this because restaurants makeup their own rules when it comes to hiring people to work for them. Some restaurants only hire young beautiful women in order to attract more customers into their establishment. This discriminates on other people trying for the same job. Some places discriminate depending on what type of restaurants they tend to hire older women, not young ladies because they tend be mothers and house wife and are able to take care of families. But if it’s a restaurant they tend to want young women with nice bodies in order to attract and flirt with male costumers. For example, I have a close friend that used to work in a fancy restaurant in Washington highs where I live, my friend felt so much pressure from her place of work and from other co-worker and waitress that she made the decision to go have plastic surgery in Dominican Republic. She felt other waitress were making more money because they had better bodies specifically bigger behinds than she did.
In this case, both the gender -in-organization and the gendered organization played a role in how my friend was able to get this job. Because in this job she walked in with gender neutral believes but quickly realized that wasn’t how she was supposed to act at work but Instead gendered organization determined how she was supposed to look and act around costumers at work, in order to make more money.
Part: B
In the article “The wage Penalty for motherhood” The authors Michelle Budig and Paula England write about how women in their childbearing years are being paid less than women that are not in their childbearing years. All this because when women have children they tend to spend more time at home and away from their jobs. They may get discriminated against because of having children and be seen as less reliable than women without children.
The first explanation (in p.205) is that when women are in childbearing years they spend more time away from work because they are taking care of children causing them to interrupt they carriers and therefore their job experience. For example, when my children where young I had to work and spend more time away from home than I wanted to. But that made me feel guilty about not being with them I was missing out on my children growth. At the same time, I had to work because of fear of losing my place at work, it was a lot of pressure from both sides.
The second explanation (in p.205) is that some mothers may want to change jobs to more mother friendly jobs even if those jobs offer less pay because to them it is more beneficial to be in a mother friendly job, like for example working in a school were later on mothers could bring their children to work with them which makes it essayer for them instead of having to pay for childcare and it saves time.
The third explanation (in p. 207) is that some mothers may earn less pay because having to take care of a young child and working is an exhausting job that can leave them feeling sleepy and can lead them to be unfocused on the job at hand. For some women, it takes about a year to get used to the routine of juggling a job will taking care of their children.
The fourth explanation (in p.208) is that some employers can discriminate against mothers because they feel mothers are less productive than women how don’t have children for the reasons I mention above. In this society, women that have career ambition are viewed as being less ambitious if they also have children. Because bosses tend to prefer women that are not attached to children in order to have their focus on the job at hand.
The last explanation is where the authors sort of retract what they said because they mention (in p.210) that maybe women of childbearing years are at a young age. They may have a lower academic status and that is way they tend to make less money than those women who don’t have any children.
