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Essay on Women in Non-traditional Jobs and their Stereotypes
Black women in non-traditional jobs in the rural American south are full-time, low-wage workers, heading single-parenmt households and education is one of the major ways they seek to improve their economic position. They live in exceptionally high overall levels of poverty (more than 20 percent), accompanied by low average income, high rates of infant mortality, substandard housing, poor health and health care, and low levels of education.
Black women remain almost five times more likely to be unemployed than White women. While a small proportion of black women rely on welfare benefits alone, most combine some kind of work - seasonal, part-time, or intermittent - with welfare benefits and help from friends and kin in order to support their families. A number of women use education and training as a long-range strategy to improve their economic circumstances. Most of them have children before they are 20. Most of them are women with less than a high school diploma (Matlin, 2003) and consider furthering their education.......
