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This week I watched a Family Guy episode called “Peter’s Job Hunt”. Family Guy: Season 5, Episode 19. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1999. Seth MacFarlane and David Zuckerman. In this episode, Peter discovers that he is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and is fired from his job. After struggling to find a new job, he finally comes across a newspaper ad for a hotel that is hiring maids. While working at the hotel, Peter dresses in a women’s maid uniform and speaks with a women’s ethnic accent. This scene relates to the article from the textbook in Chapter 8, “Defining Women’s Work”. Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. “Defining Women’s Work. Women’s Lives Multicultural Perspectives. Fourth Edition. 2007. (339-340). The text states that “most women in the workforce do “women’s work” in service and administrative support jobs, as secretaries, waitresses, and health-aide.” Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. “Defining Women’s Work. Women’s Lives Multicultural Perspectives. Fourth Edition. 2007. (339-340). The Family Guy episode demonstrates the prejudice that women face within the work field. The way that Peter portrayed a hotel maid represented the job in negative connotation for both women and immigrants. Later in the episode, Peter finds a job opening in a newspaper ad for a nanny position. While reading the ad, Peter says “Nanny wanted. Well that that’s a perfect job for a immigrants.” Family Guy: Season 5, Episode 19. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1999. Seth MacFarlane and David Zuckerman. This is a perfect example of gender profiling. Despite the labor that jobs such as hotel maids entail, the wages that the employees receive dramatically differ from the wages of other careers that males usually dominate in the industry. The way Peter depicted the role of women in the work force was offensive and presented false information.