After reading our powerpoint, I was really disappointed while reading that sexism in the labor market still exists. Men are paid more than women for the same work as well as recieving better jobs. Being a woman, this is upsetting. I believe that in the coporate world, women reach a glass ceiling. This is especially hard for women that are the head of their single parent families.
After watching the Pittsburgh and Westmoreland YouTube videos, I was astonished at the figures. First off, over 65,000 people in Pittsburgh live below poverty level. I thought it was interesting that the participants acted as if they were in poor families. It gives you more insight on the high stress levels that poor families have to deal with daily. I had no idea that they had to fill out so much paperwork. It was pretty funny that they were joking around about being evidicted. In both of the videos, people admitted that they frequently turned to crime to make ends meet. Maybe we are being too harsh on the poor if middle class citizens would do the same thing in their shoes? I'll have to admit, this definitely puts some fear in me that I never want to end up poor. I feel sorry that many poor people feel that they HAVE to resort to selling drugs and stealing because there is not other way out.
Our society likes to label people that resort to stealing, selling drugs and other extreme measures as being crazy, but the in reality these people are just ordinary, mostly sane people that are simply attempting to make ends meet. The same often goes with prostitution as well; women feel forced to sell their bodies or in their desperate situation they managed to get forced into it.
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