...Joseph Chen Extra Credit: Internship Empowering of Women in the Work Force Not knowing what to expect from this event, I was delighted by the speakers charisma and her take on how to empower yourself in the workplace. Melynnie A. Rizvi brought a more realistic view of the workplace and gaining credibility. Despite being more about a women’s perspective in the workplace she was very insightful when it came to what needed to be done to gain credibility and success. Raised by a single parent, she explained that she had never wanted to rely on another person for her success in life. Graduating in 2009 she went on to work for multiple law firms, the last firm she worked at she made partner but felt that other board members treated her unfairly due to her having a baby. She explained that she and the board member were good friends but the problem was that in corporate America it is still a male dominated workforce and that many men have never faced or have had to deal with a women having a child. What I liked about her was that she was not blaming the person for his behavior, but blaming the world around him. She was very understanding and realistic when it came to this topic. She laid out 7 steps and behaviors that impact credibility. Most of these were related to our communication styles and how we present ourselves in the world. She also explains how men and women communicate differently and their goals of communication are different. Men have a tendency to want to convey...
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...Introduction “First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes flex time and a baby carriage.” Said by a supervisor at Novartis who refused to hire women (Carter 2010) Traditionally, the work done by women is often assumed to be less important than the work performed by their male counterparts. This statement continue to plague women in all societies today, as theorist like Murdock believe, given the biological differences between men and women a sexual division of labour is the most efficient way of organising society (Haralambos & Holborn, 2008). This is one way in which the mainstream theorist sought to justify the invisibility of women and assigned roles based on the sex of the individuals. Women has always been viewed or defined by the role she is assigned by society, for which I consider to be socially constructed. However, the role women played in the home is domesticated in the role of homemaker and caregiver, thus, when we examine women’s work, we primarily think of the work that women do at home, their unpaid domestic labour. The old adage ‘women’s work is never done’ speaks to the various household tasks for which women are assumed to take overall responsibility. Many theorist used the biological theory as to heighten why women is best suited for some jobs rather than others. In reality we know that not all women are capable of assuming the role of the caring, nurturing and domesticated type, just as not all male are able to display a rough, tough and superior...
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...2007 WOMEN AT WORK IN CONNECTICUT: 1880-1920 In 1977 the average women could expect to spend 27.6 years of her life in the work force, compared with 38.3 years of men. Women workers are concentrated in low paying dead end jobs. As a result, the average women worker earns only about three-fifths of that a man does, even when both work full time year round (U. S. Department of Labor, “20 Facts on Women Workers,” 1980). How did women inherit this inferior position in the United States work place? Has it always been this way? Has their position improved since the country industrialized at the turn of the century? Do male or female workers have control over the types of jobs they get and the working conditions they find there? Though most American women have always been relegated to low-level, subservient jobs in and out of the home, many have been able to exercise varying degrees of choice in their work lives. Between 1880 and 1920 the choices available to women expanded due to the change in job definition, technology, the production pressures of World War 1, the growing militancy of women workers riding the tide of labor unrest during the war, and the increased acceptance of women in the work force. The period of 1880 to 1920 is of particular importance in our economic history because the structure of our present economic world developed at that time. Many new jobs were stereotyped by sex, while many jobs opportunities opened up for small number of women in various...
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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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...Women gaining power in business The role of women in the workforce has increased dramatically over the last several decades. If we look at women these days, women have become very successful in balancing between both work and family to build a strong foundation for their children and future generations who may want to be just as successful, ambitious and accomplish the same goals. Women these days have so many more opportunities that they never had before, this opens the doors for women to achieve anything in terms of business. Women are gaining power in business these days because there are more women going into the workplace, women getting better education and finally women are getting hired more than men because they are paid less. Certainly, roles of women these days are different than what they were back in the days. Women had a very small role in business back in the days, we see a lot more women in the workplace these days. Today, women only take some roles in consideration. Staying home and taking care of the house is no longer women’s number one priority. Instead, working outside of the home whether its part time or full-time is much more popular. A large percentage of women these days choose to be in the workplace, to be independent and support their families rather than staying home. A lot of families depend on the mother’s income especially during these tough economic times. Years ago, not a big percentage of women were seen in the work force. During...
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...their highest qualification. The younger generation has more opportunity to learn and educate themselves as the socio-political and the socioeconomic of the country nowadays are much more stable than before. There are 75.1% of respondents that currently in the labour force. The factor that motivated the married woman to seeking for job is mostly the financial independence as shown in the graph 2.1. The percentage of it is 42.4%. The second highest factor is that because of the family needs. Some women join the labour force because the need to help their disable family members. This can be prove by the table 2.3, as 24.6% of the married women which in labour force have to look after their disable family members. 24.9% of the married women are without the paid job because of several restricted factors. As indicated in table 2.1, the major factor is they have a lots of children. 43.3% of the respondents that does not have the paid job have children in range 4 to 7 persons. Compare to the another group which is the married women with a paid job, the percentage of them to have children in that range are only 28.3%. Let the null hypothesis be the mean of the married working women and the mean of the married non-working women...
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...key force was America’s involvement in War, which in the short term provided American women with work opportunity typically reserved for males, also paving the way for second wave feminism. Many women began working outside the home for the first time When America entered WWI in 1917, a male labour shortage, meant that women took over traditional male roles while they were at war. The Woman's Land Army of America, brought over 20,000 women to rural America, these "farmerettes" were paid wages equal to male farmers and an eight-hour working day protected them. 11,000 women, served abroad as nurses; others became ambulance drivers. For many, this provided an example of women mobilizing themselves. They challenged conventional thinking about gender roles which celebrated by many e.g. The Los Angeles Times proclaimed "farmettes" were “To turn new earth in history of the...
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...Changing Patterns of Labor Force Participation in Urban and Rural China By: Margaret Maurer-Fazio, James Hughes and Dandan Zhang William Davidson Institute Working Paper Number 787 August 2005 Economic Reform and Changing Patterns of Labor Force Participation in Urban and Rural China Margaret Maurer-Fazio* Department of Economics Bates College Lewiston, ME 04240 (207) 786-6067 (phone) mmaurer@bates.edu and James W. Hughes Department of Economics Bates College Lewiston, ME 04240 (207) 786-6193 (phone) jhughes@bates.edu and Zhang Dandan Division of Economics, RSPAS Australia National University Rm. 5008, Coombs Building 9 Fellows Road, Canberra ACT0200, Australia dandan.zhang@anu.edu.au • Contact author Economic Reform and Changing Patterns of Labor Force Participation in Urban and Rural China By Margaret Maurer-Fazio, James W. Hughes, and Dandan Zhang Abstract In this project, we employ data from the Chinese population censuses of 1982, 1990, and 2000 to examine reform-era changes in the patterns of male and female labor force participation and in the distribution of men’s and women’s occupational attainment. Very marked patterns of change in labor force participation emerge when we disaggregate the data by age cohort, marital status, sex, and rural/urban location. Women have decreased their labor force participation more than men, and urban women much more than rural women. Single young people in urban areas have decreased their labor force participation to stay...
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...and then French and English are the other 5 percent. Their labor force is 8.8 million est. in 2012 with 75 percent of it being agriculture. The industries that they focus on mainly are tourism, garments, rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products, gem mining and textiles and that’s how the country gets a living. They also have almost 45 percent of women employed in nonagricultural sectors, which is very low for a country of any size. The country also has a very low percentage of females that have seats in their national parliaments with 20 percent so it shows that males dominate the work force and the nations power of voting for decisions. The Quantitative figures of this country and their labor force participation rates for men and women are actually very close over all despite the idea of men over taking women in the working fields. The figures actually show that men of Cambodia are actually 90.9 percent for primary completion rate. The women actually have the upper hand with a percentage of 91.7 and that’s above the men but just barely, but it shows that women are higher then makes. Cambodia has grown little by little but over all has stayed relatively the same throughout the past twenty-five years. In 1990 the overall participation was at 91.6 percent and then in the next five years it went down just a little to 90.8 and then right back up to the highest level of 93.4 percentage of labor force...
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...II proved to be a turning point for women. The population of men decreased as they were shipped over to Europe, leaving an array of jobs available to women that had been previously closed. In addition, the 1940’s proved to be a pivot point for married women’s labor-force participation, resulting in significant economic and social changes. The decade of the 1940s saw the largest increase in female labor force participation during the twentieth century. The wartime economy nearly doubled the participation rate of women in the workforce. The war caused a robust flourishment in the number of women working in the United States; from 10.8 million in March,...
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...Assignment Chapter 16- Balancing Competing Demands of Work and Family The main focus of the chapter is the competing demands of paid work and family as single parenthood and dual-earner families replace the traditional family where the husband was the breadwinner while the wife was the homemaker. The competing demands of work and family are childcare, taking care of elderly parents, and the burden of being a single-parent. The chapter also looks at how the government can intervene to help workers balance the demands of work and family. The government reviews family friendly policies such as child care, family and medical leaves, and alternative work schedules. The Competing Demands of Work and Family Both two-earner and single-parent families are faced by conflicts in trying to balance the demands at work and family level. These demands include taking care of small children and elderly family members, and a host of other family obligations. Women that are employed and have families find it difficult to balance the demands because they have family obligations to honor before and after work. Women do more housework than men thus reducing their wages because of decreased time and energy for work. Women’s time is also consumed taking care of the elderly because the responsibility lies mostly in their part. In the U.S, the population of persons aged over 65 is expected to increase by 100 % by 2020 therefore placing more burdens on women. Rationales for Government and Employer Policies...
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...Globalization is considered to be one of the most important forces of change in contemporary society, ushering in greater integration and interdependency within countries and facilitating the unprecedented expansion of the global economy. However, globalization also creates uneven outcomes and widens the gap between the global North and South. A key-defining feature of globalization is the restructuring of production, made contingent by the increased competition between firms and corporations. The global restructuring process of production has a tremendous impact on labor relations within countries and directly affects women’s work. For one, the restructuring of production to reflect a global division of labor reflect and reinforce economic disparities between the global North and the global South through the changing nature of employment and labor force requirements. Likewise, global restructuring inevitably result in patterns of flexibilization and feminization of labor (Gills, 2002, p. 107). In particular, the tendency towards the feminization of labor in the new global economy has resulted in “the devaluing of jobs, the shift from full time to part time, the shift from jobs with upward mobility to dead end jobs, the increasing informality/casualization of the labor force” (Nagar, et. al., 2002, p. 263). The changes brought about by globalization in the patterns of employment and labor force participation among women results in the creation of a unique and complex situation of...
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...is predicted that the labor force will continue to diversify because immigration accounts for most of the population growth. It is predicted that by 2020 non-Hispanic workers will make up only 68 percent of the workforce (Lerman & Schmidt, page 4). One issued Human Resource management will face as the labor force diversifies is finding talented, educated employees. This is because the education levels within the Hispanic community are below high school level. As of 1997 only fifty-five percent of the Hispanic population over the age of 25 had completed high school (Lerman & Schmidt, page 4). Because Hispanics have a growing presence in the job market, their lack of education will lower the educational base of the labor force. Thus the human resource departments will have to change their strategy on finding the skill needed to perform the jobs they need to fill. Another issue that Human Resource departments need to be aware of is the rise of women in the work place. Whereas this is a good thing, organizations need to consider that the rise of women in the work force will bring other issues. The likely hood that the women will have young children is high, or it is likely women already in the work place well get married and start a family. If organizations want to attract and keep women they will need to meet their needs. Such things as flexible work schedule, or onsite daycare might be a good way to attract talented women in the work force. Over the next decade, instead...
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...Japanese and work Introduction: Japan is suffering from economic stagnation partly due to the failure to bring women into work. According to this article Women’s have the greatest potential, and allowing them to demonstrate their full abilities is the core for Japans growth strategy. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has brought the issue to the forefront of his economic-growth policy known as "Abenomics," proclaiming a goal to fill 30% of leadership positions in Japan with women by 2020. Major issue: Female Labor shortage is becoming an acute problem in Japan. Labor intensive industries are increasingly unable to fill their vacancies due to which Japan is suffering from economic stagnation. Or Japan suffers from one of the lowest rates of female workforce participation in the developed world. Minor issues: * Lack of childcare facilities, * Badly developed career support. * The country also suffers one of the lowest birthrates in the developed world. * A culture of Gender discrimination which results in many women remaining at home. * Women quit their jobs, they are not career oriented * Major Objective: According to this article the ultimate goal is to enhance Japan robust economy through economic-growth policy known as "Abenomics," proclaiming a goal to fill 30% of leadership positions in Japan with women by 2020 and increases the number of womens in Japanese work force. Or Enhance Japanese economy through employing more women and alleviating...
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...Jordon Roman COMP110 4/22/15 Women in The Police Force In today's world men and women are looked at as equals, but for some reason when it comes to certain jobs they are looked at differently. There are still jobs that are expected of men to do and not women. People still say things like “A women can’t do a mans job”, which is very unfair to say and in some cases a women may be able to perform the job better than a man. In some scenarios that police face everyday a womans mind may think differently then a mans. Woman use different parts of their brain and estrogen and testosterone make the brain work differently. Estrogen influences performance on tests of fine motor skills and spatial ability. Women can be in the police force but they...
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