I would have preferred to work at the university but there has been a hiring stop since 2005. Before that, she could not find a job that remotely fit her hard-earned qualifications.īecause she was previously employed, she still receives €400 (Dh2,100) a month in unemployment benefits but she is eligible for only two more months. She is 31 years old.ĭespite her ability and experience, however, Ms Martin has not had a full-time job since January. She has specialised in legal issues affecting social movements, and she has co-founded an internet service provider. She holds a PhD in political science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain's most prestigious educational institution. 24 June 2011.MADRID // Sara Lopez Martin is well-qualified. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Ladies, gentlewomen, and other inferior women, but not less worthy, I have been industrious to assemble you together, and wish I were so fortunate, as to you to make, association, and combination amongst our sex, that we may unite in prudent counsels, to make ourselves as free, happy, and famous as men, whereas now we live and, as if we were produced from beasts, rather than from men for men are happy, and we women are miserable, they possess all the ease, rest, pleasure, wealth, power, and fame, whereas women are restless with labour, easeless with pain, melancholy for want of pleasures, helpless for want of power, and in oblivion, for want of fame nevertheless, men are so unconscionable and cruel against us that they us of all kinds of liberty, as not to suffer us freely to associate amongst our own sex, but would fain bury us in their houses or beds, as in a grave the truth is, we live like bats or owls, labour like beasts, and die like worms. Read the excerpt below from "Female Orations" by Margaret Cavendish and answer the question that follows. Literature and Society: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction. She flew into a rage at the girl and there they were facing each other in a rage both helpless, helpless. The woman in charge flew into a rage that probably came from days and days of suffering on her part, because she is unable to give jobs, having none. "You've got to give me something," she kept saying. She went into hysterics, stamping her feet and screaming. The others, the real peasant, have a more difficult time.Ī girl we have seen every day all summer went crazy yesterday at the YW. The prettier ones can get jobs in the stores when there are any, or waiting on table, but these jobs are only for the attractive and the adroit. It's too terrible to see this animal terror in each other's eyes. Everyone is anxious to get work to lay up something for that long siege of bitter cold. There are only a few more days of summer. Is there any place else in the world where a human being is supposed to go hungry amidst plenty without an outcry, without protest, where only the boldest steal or kill for bread, and the timid crawl the streets, hunger like the beak of a terrible bird at the vitals? Hunger makes a human being lapse into a state of lethargy, especially city hunger. Some have had scant rations for over a year. We sit here every day, waiting for a job. We have been sitting here now for four hours.
I am sitting in the city free employment bureau. Read the excerpt below from "Women on the Breadlines" by Meridel LeSueur and answer the question that follows.