Gender Discrimination During Hurricane Katrina

As a woman, I found the discussion about gender discrimination to most interesting. Gender discrimination is prejudice based on a person’s sex or gender and mainly affects women. In the late eighteen-hundreds women began entering the workforce and immediately were discriminated against. Minority women entered the workforce because they needed to earn money for survival. Where they once were enslaved and living on plantations they were freed blacks and had to provide a living for them and their children. However, the jobs given to most minority women were cleaning, cooking, and managing the house. They often found themselves working the same types of jobs but now receiving payment.
Moving onward to the nineteenth century we see white females entering the workforce in abundance for the very same reason as minority women, to care for the families financially. However, as the white woman entered the job arena, they were offered better positions than minority women, this is largely due to racial injustice climate of the time. Nevertheless, both minority and white woman were still very
The media portrayal of African Americans during hurricane Katrina was quite biased. While the people of Louisiana were fighting to survive, and trying to flee dangerous flood waters they were spoke of in a very negative connotation on certain media outlets. The disparaging remarks were so egregious that social civil organizations began to speak out and demand retractions of certain words. During this time, you would see both white and black people searching for bottled water and food, the media would say the blacks are “looting” and whites are “finding” supplies. This narrative drew very negatively on many Americans watching this play out, even more so how the governments late response to the victims caused many more deaths than the original