It’s ok for women to want to go out in the field and work which ever field they care to work in. What is not fair is for them to work under poor and deplorable conditions. The triangle factory was located in New York and took place in the 20th century. Most of the women who were working in the factory were young immigrant women, in their early 20s. What’s most unfortunate about the reality of working in triangle factory is the amount of hours each employee had to work. Not only that but the conditions of their work place would make anyone want to quit. Sadly, they couldn’t because they were poor and needed to make money to provide for their families. The kind of work these women were doing was making shirtwaist. They were doing this kind of work for so many hours a day. On March 25th 1911, a fire started. This fire would have been escapable only if these workers were provided with safe ways to remove themselves from the building. The only hose that was available wasn’t working at the time and the elevators were malfunctioned. Many of these workers had to jump out the window to their death to escape the fire.
The triangle factory fire saddens me because this could have been avoided. The amount of people working all at one time definitely did not allow them to easily escape. We should all be able to work in safe work conditions no matter what job it is we’re doing. This story is also very sensitive to me because most of these workers were immigrants. I understand how it feels to come from another country and have to work countless hours in order to buy food or maintain a roof over your head. It breaks my heart to know that these were the conditions they had to work in and what it resulted in.Taking a look into Mario’s post, it makes me comfortable to know that others feel the same way I do. There are factories in countries like India who still have employees working in unsafe conditions, long hours and no time for them to even eat.
It pretty much sickens me that we still have to fight for our rights and that we are all not considered equal. I understand that people were happy about Virginia becoming the 38th states to pass the ERA law but to me it’s sad that we live in the 21st century and still have fight for our rights. This has been an on going battle, we’ve come far but are still not where we need to be. I do respect the women who have consistently fought for our rights but it still saddens me that this bill is just now being passed. I hope that one day, we will no longer see sweat shops and we will see each other as equal because we are.
