...Gender Wage Gap, and Sex Segregation Gender Exercise #1 During my investigation I noticed that the occupations that I am interested in pursuing cater mostly to males. The professions that interest me are Engineering, Chemistry, and Anesthesiology. I came across an article that discussed the pay differences between male's, and female's in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) profession's. According to a data study provided by the American Chemical Society (ACS) male chemists earned thirty percent more than female chemists. The findings of their research showed that eighty-three percent of the wage gap is due to differences in work ethic, and productivity, while the remaining seventeen percent is because of discrimination, and other unmeasured allegations. The information that I obtained from the National Society of Professional Engineers, in 2004 there were approximately 192,900 female engineers (62,000 were software engineers) throughout the United States, compared to the overwhelming number of men in this profession, at over 1,515,000. Women are more likely to get hired in the environmental, and chemical engineering fields than men are. However, women are less likely to get hired in the mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering professions than men. In 2006 females made up approximately one quarter of all engineers under the age of 25 in the United Stated. After researching the field of Anesthesiology I found that...
Words: 347 - Pages: 2
...disciplines in using the existing controls? The controls in the theatre is weak or incomplete i. Taking their jobs for granted: failed to collect cash from known customers; lead to conflict of interest; fail to identify the ticket carefully; either wrong dates or colors. ii. Misuse the power and authority given: give free tickets to customers that he likes by signing on the tickets; didn’t conduct any supervision on his employees. iii. No proper segregation of duties: the one who record the sales also the one who collect the cash. 3. Identify the control improvements you would suggest for Leo’s Four-Plex: Establish code of conduct a. Set up basic principles for employees to understand what is expected and follow the rules b. Manager should take responsibility to set up the code of conduct Monitoring employees work a. Hire someone to supervise the employees work b. Eg: checking the cash register twice per day at the refreshment stand to avoid failure of the stand attendants to collect cash Segregation of duties a. Segregate the cashier duties and the one who will collect the cash b. Probability that fraud to happen will be reduced Authority and responsibility a. The manager should be more responsible towards the company b. Bill Reilly shows the unethical type of behaviour by giving free theatre passes with his signature on them c. He should display a...
Words: 397 - Pages: 2
...The Gilded Age The purpose of this essay is to show how the Industrial Revolution of the Gilded Age contributed to increased problems in gender, race and class in the latter half of 19th century America. Mark Twain coined the term "The Gilded Age" between the years 1870 and 1900 America in reference to the gold gilding that became popular in the era, but also masked very serious social conflicts that arose across the country (Twain, 1996). Ultimately, with economic growth came wider income gaps and brutal social issues with gender, race and class that divided the country. Throughout the Gilded Age, swift financial growth simultaneously increased the size of the labor force, which in turn increased wages (Roediger, 1991). Given that these wages were higher than in Europe, people immigrated to America en masse, which then increased the overall poverty rates (Roediger, 1991). The Gilded Age also transferred industry from independent craftsman toward railroads, factory manufacturing and mining, which created less skilled and more regimented labor forces. This meant that people were forced to work under poor conditions, which stripped workers of their independence, which was the American way prior to the Industrial Revolution (Twain, 1996). These mass-production methods were created as offshoots of the steam engine with technical advancements expanding the size of workforces, making them larger and set up to accommodate more production, which created new jobs with a higher...
Words: 1480 - Pages: 6
...ENC 1102 Research Paper May 1st, 2013 Unreasonable Discrimination Racial discrimination is an issue that has persisted through many centuries and across geographical boundaries. Members of the black race have been strongly affected by racial discrimination since colonial times when white conquerors brought blacks from Africa as slaves to carry out hard labor jobs. Meanwhile, conquerors treated African slaves as inferior and usually worse than an animal. Society has evolved since and through a lot of work and effort, in the United States and most countries in the world slavery has been abolished and there is a constitutional equality among citizens regardless of their race or background. However, in reality our society even today experiences different degrees of racial discrimination. In spite of this, African Americans have fought against racial discrimination sometimes resorting to physical means, but most importantly utilizing intellectual means. African Americans through centuries have written poems, stories, plays and motivational speeches that express their pride in overcoming hardships in a way that could never be silenced. This way, African Americans have shown over the years that they are not an “inferior” race as it was considered in colonial times. The Homo sapiens species is so diverse that it is difficult to draw clear lines between humans based on their race or the color of their skin. However, even today societies attempt to classify people...
Words: 2158 - Pages: 9
...Century Segregation: Are We Still Divided by Race? Racial segregation was a concept that began in early history and is still prevalent in some societies today. It is often seen as a destructive forceful tactic of separating individuals based on their racial background. However, many new immigrants voluntarily choose to live in a segregated society. Segregation can be easily seen in certain communities where there is a concentration containing a particular racial group. The area where one lives significantly influences their overall quality of life as well as their job, education opportunities, formation of social relationships and networks or access to a mortgage. These aspects have an impact on socio-economic status and the accumulation of assets, and this makes housing crucial for the integration of minorities into society. Neighbourhoods that have a higher poverty rate are not able to support as many retail establishments, leading to inadequate access to quality of goods and services. When the neighbourhoods are geographically isolated it “may limit access to employment or social contact with other urban residents” (Walks, 2010). Segregation is defined as the policy or practice of separating people based on their race, class, ethnic group, religion or gender, especially as a form of discrimination. Racial segregation is not an isolated phenomenon. There are examples of segregation that can be dated back through history, most notably the racial segregation of African...
Words: 1658 - Pages: 7
...The Declaration of Independence is a historical document which lays out the fundamental rights guaranteed to every human being regardless of nationality, race, gender, or status. One group of people who were deprived the freedom to enjoy these rights were African Americans. They have suffered (and continue to face) many instances of injustice which includes segregation, and other forms of racial discrimination. Injustice can be overcome by uniting as one, making the oppressor aware of their discriminatory actions, and inciting social or political unrest (through non-violent means) to bring about change. In his letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. defines injustice as treatment that is unreasonable, sinful, and biased particularly in regards to race....
Words: 751 - Pages: 4
...Everyone wants to be noticed; nobody wants to be ignored or forgotten. Everyone wants to be treated as such. Unfortunately, people are often judged simply by the color of the skin or by the gender. For many years, both African Americans and American women are mistreated and abused based solely on the skin and gender. As two greatest civil rights leaders and victims of racial and gender discrimination, Martin Luther King and Elizabeth Cody Stanton have effectively demonstrated to the government and audience that treating blacks and women as “slaves” are unfair and morally wrong. The two speeches they write, "I have a dream" and “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” are not only the greatest moving speech masterpiece, they are also the best arguments of the century. In the speech, Dr. King and Stanton have successfully employed appeal of logos and pathos to convince the audiences and objectively justify that social segregation based on the color of skin or the sex of a person must be abolished in order to live in an ideal society, respectively. Martin Luther King first incorporates logos in his speech by using vivid evidences to prove his points. In the speech, he claims “American had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, but the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and chains of discrimination after one hundred years later” (King 687). Dr. King argues that African Americans are still living in the flames of racial discrimination. This so-called Emancipation...
Words: 1369 - Pages: 6
...African Americans and Their Fight for Equality Tiffany Brown HIS 204 July 2, 2012 1 - 1 - African Americans and Their Fight for Equality I have chosen to write about how African-American worked to end segregation, discrimination and isolation. There has been much work through the years to end segregation, discrimination and isolation and some things that have tried to be done without the use of violence. Today African-Americans still have to deal with others and their perceptions on segregation, discrimination and isolation. According to Lawson (2010), racial segregation was a system derived from the efforts of white Americans to keep African Americans in subordinate status by denying them equal access to public facilities and ensuring that blacks lived apart from whites. During the era of slavery, most African Americans resided in the South in mainly rural areas. Though we have faced many problems bigger than segregation, discrimination and isolation, there was an even bigger problem, which was slavery. Slavery is where a person could own another person, which back then was normal for those who resided in the South. Slaves did most of the work where they lived and most of them worked in mines or on plantations, while some became servants. Some people thought slavery was wrong, where as some thought that it was acceptable. The majority of slaves worked as plantation slaves in the production of cotton, sugar, tobacco and rice. From the beginnings of slavery...
Words: 1459 - Pages: 6
...What is a Just Society? What is a Just Society? Feminist social philosophy: a group of women that are looking to have equal rights as men. They have tired over the years to only be able to be respected and shown how they are qualified and are just as capable to be treated equal. Feminist thinkers comparing the average of salaries they have learned that women earn about 75 cents for every dollar men earn. (Mitchell 428) When comparing the education of women to men, a women can have a college degree has and an earning power of a man with a high school diploma. It has been proven that women have been treated different only due to the fact that she is a woman. She it goes to show that even if she has the exact same specifications of a man. Yet we look at how the views of woman are seen through the eyes of society. Looking at the way the views of females are it is very one sided. When think of a the prostitute (but not her client), pregnant teenager (but not the baby's father), yet when the you hear of a young lady being rape the first thing that does come up in mind is not what he did but more how she put herself in this situation. A woman’s sexuality has been the topic of much review, where if a woman has multiple partners and she is given a different names that that of a man. Of course, any discussion of this type is complicated by racial factors too, but on average, women earn significantly less than men. (Mitchell 428) What she found was that she was different from Sartre...
Words: 756 - Pages: 4
...Kevin Michael Albeck (KEABEC2492) ENG125 Prof. Danielle Slaughter November 16, 2012 The story “Country Lovers was written in 1975 when times were different then they are today. This story was written about a farmer’s son and one of the children of the farm’s help. There are many aspects of this story that are wrong but the most pronounced one is the racial segregation. Even though certain races are perceived as inferior to some, there should be no such thing because we all need to work together to make the planet a better place and lives are ruined over racial this segregation. The theme of this story is about tough choices and racial divides. Throughout the story you have mention of how segregated they are. The white boy lives in the farm house while the black girl and the rest of the help live in a kraal. The boy goes off to boarding school to learn while the black children get a second rate education if any. This story is all about racial segregation, something that is still very prominent in Africa today. The story is set in Africa where segregation and racial inequality are the country’s way of life. The story is set on a farm were the children will play together during early childhood and then they start going to school. The white kids will be given a better education while the black kids are given a much lower education and by the age of thirteen the divide between them is pretty large. Two kids that grew up together fell in love,...
Words: 1013 - Pages: 5
...be a leader of a civil rights organization known as the African National Congress. The purpose of the African National Congress was to demolish racial segregation and discrimination. The two most significant social changes made by Nelson Mandela was his uniting of a fiercely divided country and his creation of a truly democratic society in South Africa. A great leader will always fight for what they believe in. Nelson Mandela's dream was building a society in which all South Africans could live in freedom and prosperity. He wanted a free, non-racial, and non-sexist society for all South Africans. In Mandela’s early years he was raised by the Thembu tribe located on South Africa’s southeastern coast. He wanted to escape the Thembu traditions of marrying a woman of his regent’s choice so he fled to Johannesburg. In Johannesburg, Mandela was able to find work at a Jewish law firm in 1942. His entry level position encouraged him to obtain a bachelor’s degree in law. Through this law firm, Mandela was introduced to many different ideas, communists, politicians, and the African National Congress. During this time, South Africa was ruled by a white government which believed in racial segregation and discrimination. “The government passed a series of sweeping laws that transformed from custom into law the system of racial segregation. In addition to requiring all of South Africa’s racial groups to live in separate, designated areas, the laws prohibited marriage between people of different...
Words: 1292 - Pages: 6
...Group Snapshot B Fill the boxes with the appropriate information. The boxes will extend as you enter data. If you need more space, use another page. Remember, this is about the groups' history and development in the USA. Student's Name |LaRhonda Jones | | | Project |My Ethnic Group and Discrimination | Ethnic Group Chosen |Black | 1.) Reason (s) for choosing that group |The reason why I chose this group because black was in the past was discriminated against. | | | | | ORIGINS 2.) How the group came to be a part of the US |Date(s) of Immigration Wave,| Reason(s) ...
Words: 711 - Pages: 3
...Segregation was a very substantial issue in the 1930’s to the 1950’s. Segregation is the when people are set apart from others because of anything such as their race, religion, or even gender. In the 1930’s to 1950’s there were separate schools, water fountains, and even bathrooms. These were set apart from each other because of someone’s race. During this time period, many groups were targeted. Even though all groups were affected, African Americans were hit the hardest. In the northern cities, the whites were out of jobs so they wanted all the blacks to be fired so they would have a better chance of getting a job. In the southern cities, they took a much more inhumane approach. The whites started racial violence which included lynching. Jim...
Words: 312 - Pages: 2
...HEAD: African-American Progress to Attain Equality and Civil Rights 1 How African-Americans Worked to End Segregation, Discrimination and Isolation to Attain Equality and Civil Rights Paulette Dorsey HIS204: American History Since 1865 Instructor: Professor Marisea Stanley January 21, 2013 African-Americans Progress to Attain Equality and Civil Rights 2 How African-Americans Worked to End Segregation, Discrimination, and Isolation to Attain Equality and Civil Rights Since the period of slavery years, African Americans have gone through a hard period of isolation, discrimination and were segregated on the basis of their skin color. Disfranchisement, legalized segregation, discrimination, and exploitation had become a part of the American way of life. But, through vehicles as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, migrations to the North, several activists including Nat Turner, Fredrick Douglas, Richard Allen, and Booker T. Washington just to name a few, rose from the depths of slavery and the terror of lynching to win an equal place in American democracy. How African-Americans Worked to End Segregation and Discrimination Segregation is defined as “the practice that divides people in terms of color, religion, and even wealth” (Student Notebook, Webster’s Dictionary). African Americans went through a rough period where segregation laws and practices were in place to encourage racial separation. They were forced to ride in separate railroad...
Words: 2508 - Pages: 11
...The Responsibility Project Deonne Gadson ETH/316 October 17, 2012 Brittany Diggs The Responsibility Project The film viewed is based on the freedom riders. The freedom riders were people who used interstate transportation to oppose the segregation laws in the south. This film showed two different organizational issues. The issues in the film are important, and as a result some of these issues affected the outcome of history. The social pressures of this film impacted the strength of the organized freedom riders and what they desired to accomplish. The outcome of what could happen to people if they participated in this movement affected the organization and their personal decision who got involved. The legal and ethical responsibility of police are both enforced and disregarded in this film. The two organizational issue facing this period were the freedom riders who opposed racism, and the police enforcing the Jim Crow laws and upholding racism. The two organizations had very different views during this movement. The freedom riders cause was clearly stated, and people defending desegregation and equality took action. Segregation during this period, in the south, was highly enforced. The freedom riders used song to communicate and strengthen their spirits. They received mistreatment from authorities because they would not allow their spirits to be broken. The police at this time felt the riders came down to cause trouble. Their organization issue was to stop the desegregation...
Words: 752 - Pages: 4
