Prashad And Fink: An Analysis Of Gender Inequality

For the past century, there has been an issue confronting equality between gender. Equality is ensuring that an individual has equal opportunities to make most out of their lives, and believing that no individual has less opportunities just because of the different values and beliefs the individual follows. Throughout time women and men were treated with inequality. During the early 1900s, inequality continued to become an issue especially in the workforce. For instance, women were treated unequally, especially when entering the workforce. However; the workforce does not specify that during the war many women began working in the meatpacking industry when men left to the army being paid at less salary and positioned in lower ranks. Throughout
According to Prashad book, Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting states “…a practical index that sets in motion the processes that might in time produce a humanity that is indeed in some way equal’ (Prashad, 2001: p.69). It explains that equality is a process where humanity goes through polyculturaism. However; in Fink’s book, Cutting into the Meatpacking Line states “Gender remained a salient means of organizing packing house production. The union in digging in its heels to preserve the old system, conceded gender to manipulation of packing companies, thereby contributing to the deterioration of conditions for all workers” (Fink, 1998: p.112). It explains that packaging industries used gender toward their benefit such benefitting their corporation in manipulating both genders into working in lower labor workforce cost and raising profits towards their own companies. However; authors, Prashad and Fink both explained similar ideas, Prashad states that polyculturaism is ‘practical index’ in which processes that humanity falls into equality. On the other hand; Fink states gender gives a function in meatpacking industries and benefited from it. Furthermore, ethnicity became an issue among employees in the meatpacking industry, for instance individuals whom are Hispanics, African American and Asian American were the ethnicities that gave an impact to the meatpacking industry. One
However; there is a course of steps that every gender should follow in order from receiving equality from others. Such as, we all live in a society that is full of opportunities that individuals can partake. Our society need to break through the stereotyping that give a generalization belief about a group or class of people. For instance, Hispanic dressed up as a gangster, being able to be blind and judging the individual by its book cover. By stereotyping we judge the individual by the many characteristics and abilities that we assume that everyone in the ethnic group will fall in. Furthermore, the main reason is that it helps individuals have a way to process the idea of equality or inequality. Ethnic groups can understand the single principle of the idea that falls in having equality. According to Fink’s quotes Alice Kesseter-Harris an author who expressed to recognized gender as recognizing that men should be known as the “other” it specifies that even men will be the ‘other’ there will always be a difference between men and women. Its either because men and women portray different role and they both strive to complimenting and sharing each other’s struggles to improve their life style. Men should take in action that being the dominant group they should concentrate in using their qualities for the better.