...Women in the Workforce Ask yourself if the rights and equality of the women in the workforce has changed as much as it should have over the last eighty eight years and then ask why. The women were given the right to vote in August 1920 after years of protests, but even then it took another fifty years before all fifty states had it written into law and practiced. The Second World War provided another opportunity for women to crush the belief that they could not perform and maintain the work or work load of a man by doing their jobs. Even though they performed the work at a level equal, and sometimes more proficient than a man, the jobs were handed back over to the returning military men with only a fraction of change in making these jobs more available to women. Now knowing they could do a man’s job, bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan to support a family, was now know throughout the country and world. In the 1960’s another spark ignited the women cause for equality with the National Woman’s party and others in congress. The sixties on into the early seventies may be remembered as the era of Love and Peace, but I would have to say it was one of the most violent and productive times of the century. The addition of Sex Discrimination to the Civil Rights Bill at the last minute added another chapter in our history. Early in 1919 the House of Representatives passed the 19th amendment by a vote of 304 to 90, and the Senate approved it 56 to 25. Within the government when...
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...Equality for Women in the Workforce The Daily Telegragh, a well-known Australian tabloid, published a twenty one photo gallery on the many hair styles of Julia Gillard on their website. There was no mention of her political prowess or the fact she was the most powerful women in Australia, the focus was squarely on her appearance (News Ltd, 2014). This is just one of the many obstacles women face when striving for equality in the workplace. This paper will explore the disadvantages women face in the workplace, including the gender pay gap, the under representation of women in senior leadership roles and sexual harassment. A plan to address these disadvantages will be outlined and justification of why it will work will be provided. At the outbreak of world war one far fewer women than men participated in work, and they tended to be lower-paid domestic occupations, as the women’s main role was seen to be in the home. The withdrawal of approximately half a million men, most of who had been in the workforce, still did not result in their direct replacement with women. Women’s contribution to the workforce rose, but the increase was in traditional areas of women work, for example in the clothing and footwear industry. Unions were unwilling to let women join the workforce in greater numbers in traditional male roles as they feared it would lead to a lowering of wages (Adam-Smith, 1996). Since the early 1900’s the country has come a long way and developed at a rate faster...
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...explore this question because I wanted to be a mechanic, until I saw the sexism that women have to endure in the auto mechanic industry. Therefore, I felt that being an orthodontist would be the best profession for me. I came to this decision by exploring how gender roles effect women, how media effects women, how women in the work forces are effected, and the specific sexism that comes with the auto mechanic industry. I began my research with an article by Rachel Francis. Rachel Francis wrote an article called “The Art of Being a Woman in a Male-Dominated Field.” Rachel states that “Surprisingly, the things that make my job challenging are not the lack of knowledge, an inability to learn, trouble working with others, poor communication skills or even downright laziness. The things that make my job a challenge are all the things I have absolutely no control over: my appearance, my age and my gender.” This quote truly shows how a women’s work ethic truly has nothing to do with how easy or hard it is to make it in a job, especially when it comes to working in a male-dominates industry. This is because women are taught to dress to please men, yet this distracts men. If a woman is too young they are viewed as unintelligent sex objects, which also distracts men. If a woman is too old then they are viewed as unattractive and not able to change with modern society. Then there is simply being a woman. Women have always been portrayed as house wives. Society has engrained it into people’s...
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...Diversity impacts every part of the company.If diversity is accepted in a company the company will surely succeed. A company that creates a diverse environment shows its employees that no matter how different we are that we can all work together as a team. Employees should feel accepted by its company and fellow coworkers. In my research on diversity I came across an article about diversity in the New Zealand workforce or should I say the lack thereof. This article gave me further insight of the troubles that this countries workforce faced. These problems included migrant workers, the process of hiring employees, immigration process, and social partnership. The article is called Why Diversity Really Matters by Ruth Le Pla. The article gave me a understanding of exactly why their workforce was failing and how companies did not practice diversity. The article talked about Catherine Taylor who is the president of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand. Ms. Taylor surveyed many companies just to see the problems with their diversity. The results shocked me. New England’s workforce is in trouble and their labor pool is shrinking. Companies are not making it better because they are very close minded when it comes to the hiring of new individuals. The survey showed that many companies did not want to step outside of their comfort zones. According to Le Pla (2012),” Companies avoided candidates’ names whose names they could not pronounce. If a candidate does not have New Zealand experience...
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...presentation is Woman’s participation in workforce and economic development. Agenda Slide: Today I will present how woman’s participation is linked to Economic Development. I will use specific examples from different countries to present the trends and what is the measurable impact on the economic development. I will also present specific data from UAE on the subject. I will present my conclusions. Slide 3: Women and Economic Development Woman’s participation is very important for economic development. In developed countries like the USA, Germany etc. women contribute over half of the GDP. In developing countries, women participation is also very high, especially in export sector. e.g. China, Thailand, Indonesia etc. According to Australian Prime Minister, 180 billion dollars per year can added to the economy by participation of women in Australian economy. Slide 4: Country Trends In this slide, I would like to show women’s participation in workforce in different countries. In the United States, since the 1920, the gap between woman and man participation was very wide. It is now narrowing down to an extent where women and men would equally participate in the workforce. In the second graph, countries like Denmark and Sweden have over 70% of their women are employed. This high participation is seen in Canada, Britain, US and all other developed countries. Slide 5: Contribution to Development This graph shows how woman’s participation in workforce has contributed to the GDP of the...
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...race. Eventually, women wanted to vote; however, restrictions on voting directly said that this was not allowed, thus the Women’s Suffrage Movement was born. There was a central feeling among most men that women either did not want to vote, or...
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...Abstract Diversity encompasses characteristics that categorizes individuals and allows for self-identification. Diversity presents itself in two different forms, visible and invisible. Those that are visible forms of diversity include ones physical appearance, sex, race, age, ethnicity, speech patterns and language. Those that are nonvisible include characteristics such as religion, national origin, illness and sexual orientation (Clair 2005). When discussing diversity in the work environment, most often times they are discussing the outward, visible characteristics, however invisible social identities are common in the workplace. Gender is one of the most common viewed issues when looking at diversity in the workplace. The glass ceiling and equality issues are analyzed and discussed frequently. Discoveries have been made that support the idea that woman should be on more Boards and should be making more decisions on allocations of monies. This paper seeks to address how diversity impacts an organization and how managers can make diversity work for them. Introduction According to Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnelly, and Konopaske (2012), Diversity is a term that describes the cultural, ethnic and racial differences in a population. A more comprehensive definition by Gibson et al (2012) indicates that diversity is “an array of physical and cultural differences that constitute the spectrum of human attributes. There are six dimensions of diversity which include: age...
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...between males and females in the workforce. This paper will discuss current pay equity legislation. Federal legislation includes the Canadian Human Rights Act, the Equal Wages Guidelines, and the Canada Labour Code, Part III. Provincial legislation includes the Ontario Pay Equity Act. This paper will also cover a brief time line of the history of pay equity and who is actually covered by pay equity legislation. Lastly, this paper will discuss the gender wage gap and why it exists. Graphs from Statistics Canada will aid in demonstrating the current wage gap and the significant difference in pay for males and females. Has Pay Equity Legislation Worked? Men and women are different in many ways, physically, genetically and anatomically; however they are the same in that they are both human beings who have a right to fair and equal treatment. All throughout history women seem to have taken a back seat to their male counterparts, as women were not officially deemed persons until 1929 after a Supreme Court hearing, they had to struggle to get recognition in the workplace, and to this day are continually fighting for pay equity in the workplace. Pay equity is defined as “the principle that men and women should be compensated equally for work requiring comparable skills, responsibilities, and effort” (Pay Equity, n.d., para. 1). The goal of pay equity “is to stop discrimination related to the under-valuation of work traditionally performed by women” (Human Resources Skills and Development...
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...Women in the Labor Force There have been many changes in the workforce in the United States. One significant change is women being more involved in the United States labor force. Labor force equals the number of people employed plus the number of people unemployed. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014), there has been a significant increase in women in the labor force after World War 2. Women’s participation in the labor force rose from the 1960’s through the 1990’s. As presented in the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics website (2015), the unemployment rate is 5.1% as of August 2015. Unemployment rate is the percentage of the people in the labor force who are unemployed. Since the past until now, there have been more and more women joining the workforce. There have been increases because women do not want to be dependent just on men to provide for them. This society is changing and we all adapt to the changes. One change is that women do not necessarily need men to survive when they can support themselves and their children and be independent. Women did not have equal rights as men did in the past. Women fought hard to have equal rights and participate in the government. In the past, women were to marry, be a housewife and to raise the family, not to work, that was the man’s job. Women still to this day are treated unfair in the workforce. Women have been fighting for more rights in society and in the work force. In the chart accessed by the U.S. Bureau of...
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...Gender Wage Gap Since 1964, women have only gained 18 cents on average in terms of equal pay. It is a battle that continues to be fought daily; countless court cases and proposals to enact legislation. The gender wage gap in the United States, unbeknownst to many, exists and is affecting nearly half of the workforce. While there has been progress, such as the Equal Pay Act of 1964 and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, women still only earn approximately 77 cents to a man’s dollar. There are many common excuses as to why the wage gap between men and women exists but several studies and extensive research reveal that women are simply paid less than their male counterparts working in the same position. Recent legislation has failed...
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...AMERICAN WORKFORCE DISCRIMINATION 1 Owen Green Jacksonville University April 11th , 2012 AMERICAN WORKFORCE DISCRIMINATION 2 Over the past couple years there has been an increasing concern that the efforts of minorities along with the federal government have not eliminated the threat of possible discrimination in the workforce of America. This essay reveals the difference in categories such as gender, age and race that are responsible for the stereotypes and various work envorinments. These actions that continue today in modern America need to be taken care of and even further action needs to take place in order to eliminate any relevance of such differences. AMERICAN WORKFORCE DISCRIMINATION 3 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………4 Racial Discrimination……………………………………………………………………………4 Sex Discrimination……………………………………………………………………………….5 Age Discrimination………………………………………………………………………………6 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………. 7 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………. 8 AMERICAN WORKFORCE DISCRIMINATION 4 Minority groups and women, in particular, in the United States have gone through drastic changes in regarding employment over the past five decades. Mainly due to the Civil Rights Movement and its results difference in others skin color, family background and other stereotypes have become less relevant and more important in the American workforce today. Also, Constitutional ratifications have actually been...
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...Diversity in Workforce Francine Costa October 9, 2011 Saint Leo University Accommodation workforce diversity is a necessity in today’s workforce. With the way that the workforce has changed over the years we need to keep diversity a priority. “No longer dominated by a homogenous group of white males, available talent is now overwhelmingly represented by people from a vast array of background and life experiences” (McInnes, 1999). There are more women and different ethnicity in the workforce that need to be accommodated. We also have to be accommodating to the age of the workforce because there are more and more employees that are working past retirement age now. The amount of women in general has risen over the past decade is astonishing. Not only the amount of single women but the amount of married women has risen as well. Although women are supposed to be treated equally to their counterparts that is not always the case. “By diversifying our workforces, we can give individuals the “break” they need to earn a living and achieve their dreams” (McInnes, 1999). The facts of discrimination are hard to argue with. Reports have shown however that there will be more women in professional jobs that require higher education. The circumstances for ethnicity roles in the workforce have changed quite similarly as it has for women. The number of African Americans, Hispanics, as well as Native Americans has changed although they are still being employed in the low-skill and low-paying...
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...both Canada and the ‘economic south’?” The lives of women in the recent past have changed dramatically. There are more women now who are educated than ever before, and a great percentage of them have forged ahead in the labour market. The pace of change is improving at fast rate with both developed and developing countries working towards bringing around a change. But despite the numerous developments in this area, there still exists the issue of gender gap that limits the progress of women workers in the paid workforce. This paper discusses the topic of gender differences in OECD countries and how it affects the process of work and learning of women in both Canada and the economic south. In almost all the OECD countries, women participation in the workforce has steadily increased. There are more women participating in the all kinds of jobs and they continue to enter the workforce in rising numbers. But still gender inequality continues to persist and is a topic that dominates the sad plight of women. There are OECD reports that Scandinavian countries have the lowest ratio of such issues due to well-equipped infrastructure that supports child-care and family-friendly workplaces. Though this seems like a rather outdated subject, the gendered work, wage gap, inequality are still rather the most pressing issues in countries like Canada in particular. Amongst many difficulties, economic inequality between women and men lives on due to the inadequacies to address the...
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...How Women Were Affected by World War 2 World War II marked a big turning point for women and their roles in society. Before World War II begun, most women were seen as housewives and stay at home mothers and only that. Of course they filled other jobs and took on other responsibilities, but in most cases it would be men. The culture was that men fit the jobs better and would do a better job, and that wasn’t really questioned very much originally because that is how it had always been. Women were not going to be seen as equals with men in America unless a drastic change was going to occur. That change would have almost had to force women into the workforce and obliged their involvement with American jobs outside of housework. That drastic...
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...Components of a Diverse Workforce Mark A Kulpa Mid-Continent University M14 DL22 Human Resource Management Professor Edward Hogg 29 December, 2013 Components of a Diverse Workforce Having a diversity workforce can be beneficial for any organization. Not only does it bring people from different cultures together but can bring new ideas that could help a company be more productive. Different cultures may go about problem solving in different ways which could result in thinking “outside the box”. Multinational businesses often have a great deal of diversity in their workforce usually due to their size and geographical locations. A diverse workforce can make an organization stronger and give it the ability to better provide the needs of their customers. We will look at laws affecting equal employment opportunity, components that make up a diverse workforce and uniform guidelines on employee selection procedures. Diversity is not only people from different cultures but can women, single mothers, people of color, older workers and those who are disabled. We learn in the bible that God does not take sides when it comes to race. In Galatians it is stated “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male and female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28, KJV). Today in the United States there are many employment laws that protect working Americans. But this was not always the case. According to Walsh (2010) at the...
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