KK Blog Post 3 -- Compare Night Women to New York Day Women.

KK Blog Post 3 -- Compare Night Women to New York Day Women. What new opportunities do women have in the US vs. Haiti? What experiences are similar in both stories/places? What does this suggest about gender roles? 500 words.

Night women and New York Day women are stories which have different narrators, perspectives, and background environment. However, they are based on the same theme that is the relationship between parent and child.

In the night women, the main character is a mother who works as a prostitute, and she narrates her perspective of life and love of her son. Because she has no husband, and she is not educated enough to get a proper job, she chooses to be a prostitute. The most important reason that she chooses to sacrifice herself and get such a job is to support his son and to avoid his son to follow the same path as she does. She sacrifices herself and makes such devotions by working as a night woman. 

New York Day Women is kind of similar, but different in specific ways; the New York Day Women is narrated by a daughter called Suzzete and her perspective of her mom. She narrates as she follows her mother's back secretly, and tells about her mother's daily life that she never knew it before. At first, she follows her mom because she is astonished by the fact that her mom goes out of the area of Brooklyn, and walks around the streets of Manhattan, which is the city that her mom  used to feel afraid and fear of; however, as she follows her mom, she finds her mom's actual job and day life, which the mom has never told to daughter before. Through following her back, the daughter notices her mom acts differently as she buys a can of soda and a hot dog that she never used to eat because of the saltiness. Most importantly, the daughter sees her mom taking care of a child at a park, and realizes that her mom works as a nanny. Her job implies the devotion that she makes to support her husband and daughter. 

Both of the stories are based on the content of mothers who sacrifice themselves to support the family. Furthermore, both mothers hide their identity and lifestyle while working as a night woman, and a nanny, which is because they feel shameful to tell their jobs to their family members. Night woman hides her job to her son to protect his innocence and at the same time, she feels ashamed to tell about it to her young son. In the NY Day women, mom hides her identity to her daughter and stays distance with her by not talking too much and never attending to any of her daughter's Parent-Teacher Association meetings in school. The reason that the mother hides her job throughout the whole life to her daughter is also because the mother feels ashamed to tell her daughter about the fact that she works as a day woman, which is a job symbolizes poverty and uneducation. Two mothers' jobs further explain about the gender roles during the time. It implies that women had significantly low positions of job rather than men. Additionally, if the women are poor, uneducated, and have no husband at the same time, they were ought to choose a very low job such as prostitute to earn more money during short time, which gave those women a feeling of separation from the society.   

Both of the stories have a difference that the stories are all narrated in different countries and cultural background. Night women is written by a Haitian woman who lives in Haiti. Haiti is such a poor country, so most of people are not educated enough to possess a good job; therefore most of women work at a marketplace and men work at places like sugarmill under the guide of rich man in the town. However, the night woman had no chance to choose those normal jobs since she needs to earn money faster and she has no husband to support the whole family. On the other hand, New York Day Women is a story located in the United States, which is so much better than Haiti especially in a financial way. Suzzete works in an advertisement company in Manhattan since she is educated, and her mom works as a nanny who take care of other's child. Although Suzzete's mom is not educated enough, she possesses job which is still better than prostitute. Through comparing the jobs of night woman, new york day woman, and her daughter have, it clearly shows that US provide much better job opportunities to people than Haiti, where most of people suffer from poverty.