Gender and work

Growing up I always noticed that the men in my family and around me did most of the work, which involved allot of physical labour. The women on the other hand the women did physical work but nothing near as intense as what the men did. At some point in my life I did believe that a woman's role was to take care of the house and children. Gender has played a part in shaping my goals. Men have always been looked at the head of the family, the one who has to provide. This affects the type of job I search and the amount I desire.

Status

What struck me the most in the book, was that almost everyone was more concerned with the status of their jobs rather than the quality of work they were putting out. Sometimes good quality work can also boost your status. eg. If the prostitute had wine pon de bodie hed a little harder and balance pon she head top. Then maybe one of the high level guys, might have given he a permanent job.
Work today has lost alot of it's meaning, unless you really love your job or you getting paid really good, no one is giving 100% only to be treated like used toilet paper. Everyone is over worked, underpaid and looking foward to the weekends. Nothing is like it use to be, maybe if someone cared about the average working then the he might care about work a little more. Then maybe we can back to the days when productivity, quality and fair wages existed in the work place.