Sunday, July 11, 2004
Second posting by Yuki Suzuki
Better life, good house, much money...Uhmma may at least had expectations before she came and faced with the reality in U.S. In this book, there are some descriptions about being women. Yaoung Ju, woman, cannot be the president, only men can be. I do not want say and admit it, but it is the reality. Not only sex but race make people notice we are in front of the reality.There are unneglectable facts that making eqaul opportunities such as affirmative action did not work well, and the president are alomost WASP(except for kennedy) and only men ever. I feel the gap between the ideal and reality just like apa and Uhmma felt and had quarrel in the car. So, totally, I understand Uhmma, apa, and Ju felt unsatisfaction resembled with anger for unfairness.
When I was in Japan 2months ago, I did job-hunting. Many companies said we do recruit men and women equally, but they did not. Like even Toyota global company, it recruites 350 mens and 30 womens(men applicants twice as many as women, but still unfair). I think the reason to hesitate to recruite womes is clear, because women may quit the job soon if they got marries and have their babies. In U.S, Wal-mart has been accused of sex-discrimination by women employees. I want to say "stop disicrimination" if it will work, but unfortunately, it will not work. Then, do we have to just complain about the unfair world? No, we, people can have to believe that "we can make the road to the ideal if we strongly believe there should be a way" that Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said.
When I was in Japan 2months ago, I did job-hunting. Many companies said we do recruit men and women equally, but they did not. Like even Toyota global company, it recruites 350 mens and 30 womens(men applicants twice as many as women, but still unfair). I think the reason to hesitate to recruite womes is clear, because women may quit the job soon if they got marries and have their babies. In U.S, Wal-mart has been accused of sex-discrimination by women employees. I want to say "stop disicrimination" if it will work, but unfortunately, it will not work. Then, do we have to just complain about the unfair world? No, we, people can have to believe that "we can make the road to the ideal if we strongly believe there should be a way" that Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said.
