Each Person's Life And Life Choices: My Encounters From The Interview

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Introduction
Asking questions is seen to be the best way to learn. In this assignment, I was directed to interview two different persons concerning their positions in the society. Therefore, my interview focused on Mr. Tom, a manager in a local restaurant and Mrs. Jane, a cashier in a local supermarket. They are all married, and have parenting responsibilities. My interview sought to understand how their roles pertaining class, gender or race had affected their lives. I chose to utilize the conflict perspective since in the course of the interviewing process, some conflicts emerge as a result of the common stereotypes implanted in the society pertaining the roles that should be undertaken by different genders. Societies are indeed made up of many competing interest group based on gender, race, as well class, and either group wants to outcompete the other and gain advantage. This is because using conflict perspective approach will be most appropriate.
My Encounters from the Interview
My first interview was based on how Mrs. Jane viewed her interactions with family members and the society in general. In responding to my inquiry, Mrs. Jane said that women with higher class would spend relatively less time doing housework than women in the lower class. She continued saying that most women with a perceived high class spend less time at home than those who are perceived to be lower class women. She attributes this scenario to the shift in the paid domestic labor, which has contributed to the reduction of the number of hours of housework for upper and middle class women. Most interestingly, she said that most women with resources are more likely to transfer some of her house works to the low wage women in the society. This then leads to the reduction of the need for household bargaining between high class women and their domestic partners.
When asked whether there are exaggerated gender bias between women working in the professions dominated by men, Mrs. Jane said that indeed there was a gender bias in the workplace where she was working. I then sought to know whether this gender bias was based on some kind of the particular class women held in the society. In response, she said that in her place of work, gender bias was higher for upper class women as compared to middle class women. She explained that the increase in the rate of gender bias was more likely to make the upper class women to identify themselves as women, thereby interfering with the class-based identification that existed in the society. She explained that female managers get a lot of their benefits from place of work mainly as a result of the rising number of women in the leadership positions. However, she cautioned that the acts of overreliance on female minority leaders may increase gender-identification, and rather lead to the decrease in the levels of class identification.
I was then compelled to ask Mrs. Jane concerning her opinions on the challenges facing women in their communities as well as workplace basing on the class one held in the society. She said that upper and middle class women living in households where female employment would be viewed as optional and working within male dominated workpl...