presses and analysis of nyt articles
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/nyregion/in-funeral-industry-womens-presence-grows.html?scp=4&sq=embalming&st=cse
Lisa dozier first saw a dead person at her uncles funeral. She notes that she felt he looked peaceful and she wanted to assist other dead people in looking peaceful. Mis Dozier made a carrier of this desire and made her own funeral service. Her story is reflective of the shift in the formerly predominantly male industry. This industry has shifted seance the 1970s when a women named Dottie Hector began her training and started an organization called 100 Black Women of Funeral Service. Only approximately 15% of funeral school students in the USA were women in 1976 and now there are are slightly more women than men in funeral school. This surge in the education does not match the amount of current funeral home owners. as of January of this year 14% of funeral home owners are women. This is because many families have been with the same funeral service for generations. It is a challenge for women to overcome this but Lisa Dozier has overcome this challenge.
Analysis:
The article discusses a woman's attraction to the funeral industry. It discusses how she wants to fix the dead. This part seemed extremely odd to me. She talks about how she knows how to put makeup on dead people so she was an acceptable person for the job. This reflects our obsession with concealing the dead. For some reason it annoys me how she states, “A man would not know that you don’t put red lipstick on a 90-year-old woman,” Ms. Dozier said. “A man would not necessarily know that the tag of a wig goes in the back.” Not only did this point out a pretty disgusting aspect of our cultures ways of dealing with the dead but the woman is saying she thinks women are better at this strange part.
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