300 Word Topic Invention

Marie Galetto
11/4/09
Research Hypertext Topic Invention

I am going to focus my research hypertext on young women working in the child care industry. These workers have extremely demanding jobs and are paid very little for their efforts. Taking care of the children takes a lot of patience and energy. The efforts of these people are never fully appreciated for all the work they do. In many instances these important jobs pay so little that these people need to get a second job. Their jobs have significant effects on their personal life, especially those women who have their own children at home. Since taking care of children is these women’s job they may be less motivated to partake in these nurturing activities after their shifts have ended and this has devastating effects on their own children. Ehrenreich shows how the personal effects of emotionally draining low-wage jobs impact the people more than the exact dollar amounts that these people are earning (Ehrenreich 25-26). A lot of these women do not have degrees and so can not become teachers so they are forced to work in child care instead. They do not have the opportunity to move up in their field because they do not have the prerequisites or the time or money to get the degrees needed. This proves that, no matter how hard they work in their profession they have no chance of upward mobility as also shown in Shipler’s book (Shipler 45). Shipler also shows the irony of the situations that many of these people live in (Shipler 39). The woman who works at the child care center can not afford to send her children there. I also want to talk about the children who are sent to these child care facilities. Most of them are children of low-wage workers who may work more than one job so most of their nurturing comes from these paid workers.