This week we were learning labor movement. The readings, video and the show Mrs. America let us know that every movement, every achivement we gain in the history is not easy. Even for ERA, after one century, only 38 states passed it. And this is a so-called developed country. So things must be even worse in other developing countries in the world. Which is very sad and I wish that there are ways to help women in third world too.

In the show Mrs. America, Phyllis Schlafly is a smart lady with 6 kids. Unfortunely she is also a tragedy, a product from patriachy. I considered she is smart since she knew through grassroot movement she can gain more conservative power. But I didn’t think she is wise since that is a short sight action. Unfortunely she didn’t see that even she can keep her privileged life as usual, under patriachy, no one is winner especailly for women. And it is of course very upset other women that with liberal party to see that against them is another woman that know the unfair life that women need to face every day during 60-70s.

After watching 2 videos about people’s lives as working at factories and how some of them ended up lost their life since the exit were locked by the manager. It is unbelieveable that it still happens today. In this case, I also think about there must be other unfair things going on since there are some undocumented immigrants working under the table and due to their immigrate status, they would not report anything even they faced unfair working condition in life. I heard of young women working 60 hours as babysitting and only get paid $10-$15 per hour. Sometimes they could be too busy to have time for lunch. And this is happening in today’s new york. There are more that we can do to improve labor right-no matter for developed countries or developing countries.