wk 8= F-word, chap. 6 and chapter 9 in FIFE

This chapter is a look at where the feminism movement is today. Telling where they were in the early to middle second wave and where the movement is today. Discussing the achievements of women over the last 40 years or so. There are more professional women in the work force than ever before and they are achieving land mark advances in the top level jobs in this country, yet there is much left for the movement to accomplish, such as; equality in pay and benefits to men at the same job, equal opportunities for advancement, greater flexibility in the time schedules and work days for women with children. This chapter give great hope that the ideal working situations for both men and women is possible and will over the years will become a necessity for workplaces to bend to the needs of employees, men and women, both with and without children. The jobs will have to be filled and to get the better employees they will have to become very flexible.
Bell Hooks in FIFE, chapter 9, wrote about the women who have no choice. The women in the workforce that has to work to support herself and her family. These are both married and single women, but Hooks refered mostly to the women who were single and usually poor class or working class, caught in a trap of economic necessity where they have to work. They have not the privilege of choice. These women have not received the benefits of the feminist movement that the upper to middle classes of women. They are still in an economic stranglehold that keeps them from achieving any degree of advancement from the necessity of work. They are working in low paying, male dominated jobs, that keep them from the better jobs. Jobs where men are shown preference in advancements as well as pay and benefits.