Week 4 Response: Joan Acker, “Is Capitalism Gendered and Racialized?”

In this article the author expresses his views on the current situation of our society. According to him, our society is completely male dominated. Male chauvinism has been a problem in our cultures for quite a long time now. Although slavery was abolished in 1865, racism has reached its peaks today. White men are responsible for this. They were the ones in control of everything in the past and it has been the same way since. Gender bias has continued for a long time and it can be seen all over the globe. Women are considered to be weak and thus not given any jobs requiring strength. Even if that was correct, they are only considered as homemakers or house wifes. The man of the house is supposed to be sole breadwinner of the family. Women were constantly prohibited from working. But it has begun to change. As single mothers have to work to serve their children. But they are mostly given low jobs, and poor compensations for their work.