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Gender and Class Mini-Writing Assessment

A paragraph about how gender and class oppression intersects in today's society

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Gender and Class Mini-Writing Assessment

A paragraph about how gender and class oppression intersects in today's society

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Gender and Class Mini Writing Assessment

Focus question: How do gender and class oppression intersect?

Directions:
● Using the document analysis you did last class:
● Must Do/CP: write a claim paragraph that answers the focus question.
Next Level/Honors= write 2 claim paragraphs that answers the focus question.
● You should use 3 pieces of evidence (paraphrase in your own words) from the documents for each
paragraph.
● Citations should be in (Author Name, Year).
● Use a graphic organizer (make a copy) if it is helpful for you!
● Please highlight when you are finished before you submit, so you can check your work
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Highlighting code
Highlight your claim in yellow for each paragraph.

Leny Ticianeli

10/01/2024

Women and Gender Studies

The Intersection Between Gender and Class Oppression

Gender and class oppression intersect by the treatment women get in their workplaces and at home by

men and other people, having to do more labor and receiving less than it’s worth. A picture in the NBC News

published in September 1, 2024, shows a strike happening by hotel workers and housekeepers. They’re doing

protests to get increased wages and hours. Data shows that 90% of housekeepers are women, and 73% of

housekeepers are women of color. In this situation, gender and class oppression intersect because the

housekeepers, who are in majority women of color, are not receiving what they deserve, being oppressed by the

higher class. In the book Disposable Domestics by Grace Chang, published in February 2016, Chang talks about

how “illegal” immigrants receive less than “legal" workers. Middle class people often hire more “illegal”

workers because they’re cheaper and don’t want to spend a lot of money. According to a survey of 18 New York

agencies, “illegal workers earned as little as $175 a week, while “legal” workers earned as much as $600.

Connecting to the data of the strike in the picture of NBC news, that says 90% of housekeeping workers are
women, it shows how lower-class women are treated in their workplace. Gender and class oppression also

intersects inside homes. In the book The Second Shift by Arlie Russel Hochilsd published in 2000, Arlie has

interviewed wifes and husbands to show how both talk about the division of labor inside their homes. Women

said in the interviews that they take care of almost all the chores inside their home, for example taking care of

the children, buying groceries, making dinner, etc. While their husbands usually get to work on their job and get

to chill at home. A woman proposed the idea of “Second Shift”. She putted as “You're on duty at work. You

come home, and you're on duty. Then you go back to work and you're on duty.” This shows the intersection

between gender and class oppression, because most women after going to the job, they get to go home and do

more work while the husbands get to relax. Overall, women get to work outside of their home and receive less

of what they deserve, getting to go home after and take care of almost everything at home without any help

from their husbands and/or children, not being able to relax. Also they can’t get help at home from other

housekeepers because they don’t have the money to contract them.

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