The Importance of Considering Minority Ethnic Women’s Labour Market and Career Experiences in Unde

Discussion

Considering The Criticism That Western Feminism Focuses Only On White Middle-Class Women, Critically Discuss The Importance Of Also Considering Minority Ethnic Women’s Labour Market And Career Experiences In Understanding The Disadvantaged Position Women Presently Occupy At Work.  

The paper discusses about the western Feminism and critically discusses that how it feminism focuses only on white middle-class women. It also discusses the importance of also considering minority ethnic women’s labour market and career experiences in understanding the disadvantaged position women presently occupy at work. The current feminist movement of the western countries are typically focussing the atrocities of the white women. The white women have been used synonymously with the educated and skilled women of western societies. The women rights in different parts of the world has taken different routes resulting in different goals and objectives of the movement. The struggles of the women in different areas is being considered in the feminists of different parts of the world. The paper highlights different views and critics which has been defining the western feminism of the recent times and these different views are forming the basis of the current waves of the women liberalisation movement of the world.

Western feminism is a type of feminism which basically considers the miseries and struggles of the white women in western part of the world. There are several issues relating to the gender biasness which are being faced by the women belonging to ethnic groups and minority groups. The feminist theories which are being used in the western culture are being solely directed towards the experiences of the white women and have been unsuccessful in dealing with the struggle and difficulties of the overall women issues which are basically issues of equality. Western feminism focusses on the central idea around the empowerment of white middle-class females of Western countries. This is topic of debate which has been highlighted in recent times and was not a matter of discussion since the beginning of the feminist movement. Feminist movement was about the women who have been facing inequality based on gender biasness whether they are of different race, ethnicity, caste etc.

Feminism is an international movement and considers to protect women from all types of oppression and inequalities that they face because the society does not accepts their freedom as a women. The movement of feminism basically aims at providing solidarity among women of all countries and all races. It must not consider which women should be liberalised from the oppressions and issues of inequality (Mohammad, 2016). Every women rights must be protected without creating biasness based on colour and race. However, there is remarkable difference can be seen in the feminist movement followed in different parts of the world. The feminist movement of the western societies are being inclined towards the rights and liberalisation of the white women and they fail to address the issues of the other women (Miller and Carbone-Lopez, 2015). There is growing gap between North and South feminism movement. The author of the study explains that Women from the Northern parts of the world are being benefitted by outcome of the capitalism and integration of global economy, whereas women from the South are still confronted with poverty and are facing terrible human rights and labour conditions.

In accordance with the author of the study, (Ng, E.S and Sears 2010), there are different market perceptions for men and women and work values are determining the confidence of the confidence of the different groups working in a working environment (Allen, Mendick, Harvey and Ahmad, 2015). The ethnic minorities shows higher intrinsic and extrinsic, altruistic and social work values than Whites but these are not considered for improving their position in labour market. This is generating lack of confidence in the workers who belong from these ethnic minority groups especially who are women (Jonsson, 2016).

The wave narratives were used by different scholars such as Marsha Lear, who explained that the women liberalisation movement was different in different countries such as United States and United Kingdom. The different phases of women feminism shows the development of the women liberalisation movement and how it has changed overtime using different theories and concepts. One of the recent issues have been arose concerning the western feminisms. The author of the study (Evans and Chamberlain 2015), explains that there are generational barriers between feminists and which are creating hindrances to the government (Ng and Sears, 2010). There are new waves of legitimacy in women liberalisation movement. For example- the western feminism talks about the interest of the white women and ignores mainly the interest of the other women of the western society who are ethnically backwards and belong to minority groups (Hoskin, 2017). This movement has brought new waves and women are differentiated on the basis of colour and race. The western feminism is making the women liberalisation movement more complex by creating confusion between the equal rights of women and equal rights to ethnic minority sections. This wave of criticism is creating a narrower approach to feminist movement (Evans and Chamberlain, 2015).

The current feminist movement of the western countries are typically focussing the atrocities of the white women (Haggis, 2017). The white women have been used synonymously with the educated and skilled women of western societies. This movement is ignoring the women of other colour or saying that the women excluding the white women are in a better position. The black feminist will definitely have issues with this theory because it is affecting the underlying concept of the ongoing feminist movement since a long time (Ponterotto, 2016). It can be said that the western feminist is adding a new wave to the ongoing feminist movement and creating more questions and providing scope for more research on the rights of other group of women who belong to marginalised groups such as lesbians, bisexuals, women with disabilities, transgender women and other backwards group of women (Evans and Chamberlain 2015).

The women rights in different parts of the world has taken different routes resulting in different goals and objectives of the movement (Farris and Rottenberg, 2017). The struggles of the women in different areas is being considered in the feminists of different parts of the world. This is one of the reason that, why western feminism is considering the struggles of the white women (Rottenberg, 2017).

Origin of white feminism comes from the beginning of the early modern period and continued till 20 century and it continues to rose inequality between people of the society as a result of which many women are not getting the right platform as per their knowledge, competence and the platform which they should get to show their talent. Here it can be said that history of women suffering is shown and it can be related to the white feminism of women (Midgley, 2017). The second phase of feminism began in the early 1960 and continued till 1980. This time it was mainly focused on the environment of work, protection toward the women (Avanza, 2020).

Right of the women’s is an issue of the globe and many of the women movement are having long issues and one of the most famous is western feminism which is dominating throughout the world (Callihan and Feldman, 2018). In the second phase of the feminism it was widely seen that there was wide participation of the women for equality and there was various kinds of street movement in which women are participating in order to get justice (Listerborn, 2016). The women of this second phase are more educated and well know their demands and desires which need to be with them so it broke out more drastically and more aggressively in order to get justice. Different women have different goals and they known how to achieve them as such justice to all the women are not same it’s mainly depend upon their lifestyle, way of thinking and also education plays a major role in this. Such as the women in the world have different movements and they played different role in that (Mirza and Meetoo, 2018). There are many women who had given their lives for the upgradation of the society not only this the women had also play a major role in protecting the natural resources (Banet, 2018).

The suffering of muslim women are high and they are not recognized as such by USWMCF also as such USWMCF should recognize the needs and wants of freedom which they should get in order to promote equality in the society it is needed. There are many restriction as such the women are not allowed to drive car. And they have to keep themselves in hijabs. There is need for their rights and freedom to uplift so that there need, freedom and justice are upgraded and this can be done by providing proper education.

It can be well said that the US emphases the women need like no other country there are major areas where women had shown growth and it cannot be ignored that US had led an example of how women are treated and first jeans for women was also made in US and it coloured blue which represent the sign of freedom and liberty.

For the development of the society it is very necessary to upgrade the situation of women in labour, middle as well as rich class. The society can only be upgraded if it provide a proper justice towards the women as such women is an important part of the society and for the development of society it is very necessary and it is directly proportionate to the development. But in the middle eastern society it is seen that the success of one individual in the family is directly related to the success of the entire family. And here the success of the women is scarifies as such women in the house scarifies their need and demand for others in the family. But in the country like US the success of individual is depended on the each of the individual weather it is men or women and so the women gets equal opportunity in every terms and it helps them to fulfil their needs and desire and they also think themselves as a part of the society and it helps in generating sense of belongingness and an essential part of the society. This also helps to increase the economic as well as society to development. It goes side by side as such it is directly related to the society development and also to the development of women. The educated women provide a key role in the society as such it help them to better known their knowledge and accordingly they developed as such it helps to improve the women and they will be aware of their rights and freedom which they should get in order to be equal to the men. The society can only be better place to live in if there is no type of discrimination and the individual will be selected according to their talent.

Conclusion

As it is very well known fact that right to women is a global issue and feminism is one of the most important movement which helps the women to uplift and get awarded the justice which they need and which should be provided. From the above facts it can be seen that there is much suffering for women and it should be taken rights steps to protect as well as to conserve their rights and give them the right which they should actually get (Budds, Locke and Burr, 2016). This can only be achieve if there is well understanding between the west and the rest which will help in the reduction of the gap which prevail between USWMCF and also include many other kind of feminism (Budgeon, 2015). To get the solution for the justice of the women it is necessary to known the women through the ethnographic research which will help to gather deep knowledge about the women in terms of the culture, region, religion and history (Dosekun, 2015). There are many steps which can be taken to upgrade women as such the women should get the right to right their bibliography which would also help not only the women who had written but also the women who will read this will provide them with ideas and also inspiration, motivation to achieve the desired goal or many women are fighting for their justice and can also help in getting right to achieve the desired justice which they wants and should get (Dow, 2015). The justice of muslim women is ignored and as such no special recommendation are made by USWMCF to them. The society should work towards the achievement of justice for muslim women also as such they are also a part of the society and the society should work towards the achievement of their freedom and justice as they should be well informed about the rights and the society should help them and also inspire them to fight for their justice and freedom. As different women having been raised differently so there ideas, belief all are different as such the idea of freedom and justice also differs in accordance with their education, culture and environment (Benedictis, Orgad and Rottenberg, 2019). Right education helps women to known their true worth as such it also help them to guide towards their justice and freedom. So, to make the society free from all the types of constraints such as gender, color discrimination it is necessary to educate women. There is much need to generate understanding between USWMCF and the society and also to generate harmony between them. To make society a better place to live in it is necessary to make a society with no discrimination and every gender is developed according to the talent and not on the basic of discrimination.

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