In the past the major number of jobs was based on hard physical work and demanded great physical strength and endurance. ... But the wage for women is still less than for men, despite Equal Pay act that was passed in 1963 and requires that " a man and a woman doing the same task with the same skill and experience be paid the same". ... Probably, a stereotype of the female workers as a source of the low paid labor became so strong over time that a number of employers prefer to ignore the Equal Pay Act as long as if they are able to find any kind of a formal excuse that will make them look as if...

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Over the last century, Canadian women have increasingly participated in paid employment; however, women continue to struggle for equal opportunities such as job advancement and pay equality. ... Women are faced with oppression with regards to pay equality, career advancement and equitable treatment. ... They point out that occupations perceived as "women's jobs" have been underpaid compared with "men's jobs" because of a historical undervaluing of women's skills and work. ... Recent studies show that the more children a woman has, the lower her hourly pay. ...

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They expose the very rigid division between women and men and a strict demarcation between women's jobs and men's jobs. All women were assemblers, doing the same job regardless of their age. All were 'semi-skilled' with no career ladder or promotion prospects, minimal training, and the same low pay. ... However, the conditions in these factories in mainland China are far worse for longer hours and lower pay. ... Due to this, women are paid lower wages than men in equivalent jobs. ...

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When it comes to the Excerpts from The Gendered Society, writing by Michael Kimmel, he talks about how there are a bunch of variances when it comes to gender, for example how men and women are associated with certain jobs or responsibilities. ... To support this statement he goes on to talk about how our jobs, families, schools, etc. are something he calls "Gendered Institutions.... He dwells on the topic of family and talks about how we need more shared responsibilities between husband and wife when pertaining to housework and outside jobs. ... From Excerpts from "Hierarchies, Jobs,...

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As a result of the recent industrialization in the U.S., there became a plethora of factory jobs as well as the need for ready and willing workers to fill said jobs, this opened doors for Irish women, and made it easier to appoint jobs to the substantial number of female Irish immigrants coming to the United States. But these jobs didn't come without a price; they required their ready and willing workers to withstand working in the factories' repugnant conditions. In addition to factory jobs, Irish women also worked in mills and took up domestic work in American citizens' privat...

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Then why does a past job interruption damage women's current income? ... As a result, many women choose to engage in more flexible jobs, like part-time jobs. In 1991, 70 per cent of part-time jobs were filled by women (Statistics Canada 1991:15). In the same year 68.1 per cent of mother had full-time full-year jobs while 87 per cent of non-mother women had full-time full-year jobs (ibid.). ... Women's inevitable preference in more flexible, but lower paying jobs contributes women's lower wage....

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As part of the war effort, the government began to actively encourage women to apply for war jobs. These jobs differed greatly from the typical jobs that women held in that many of them required a high degree of manual labor, strength, and technical skills, things previously thought as only capable of men. Women embraced these new roles in order to aid the war effort but also enjoyed a number of other opportunities such as increased pay and training in new skills. ...

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Despite this, it is still evident that males are the gender that generally have higher paid jobs and hold the majority of positions of power in society. ... In her research taken from 'Just like a girl' in 1976, she found that girls priorities were 'love, marriage, husbands, children, jobs and careers, in roughly that order. On repeating her research in 1994, she found quite start contrasts in that women's priorities had changed to 'job, career and being able to support themselves'. ... You have to wonder why it is that men generally have the higher paid jobs...

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A woman is a victim of the burden of bringing up children and looking after the home and running domestic affairs. While the men go out to be bread-winners and do not look back at the housework or taking care of children. Women are put up to the never-ending struggle against dust, stains, mud and di...

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In addition, I had a personal experience of having a friend who was a male co-worker complain that his salary was inadequate when in fact he was making more then I was, and he had less experience, education, years on the job, and yet we both had the same responsibilities. ... Although, I no longer work in the same position or for the same management I am fully aware of how being a women can sometimes mean doing more work for less pay. ... Women need to make sure that they are receiving equal pay for equal work, and to make sure that any incidents involving discrimination are reported. ...

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" As seen today, women have made significant advancements toward equality by being able to vote, holding the same job positions as men and being paid and treated equally in most aspects of life. ... This was evident because to help in the war effort, Canadian women who were unemployed, or those who had jobs as clerks or domestics previously, were moved into better paying factory jobs where they made uniforms, army boots and munitions as well as other things (Meyer, Gibson, and Staton, 35). ... Men were also worried that if woman continued to willingly work for lower pay, it would put them...

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She knew that to get a good job that paid decently that she had to further her education just as a man would, but she would not receive money from a college for her outstanding swimming, she had to pay for it herself. ... " (24) However, without a good education they would struggle to get a job that paid decently. This led her to push for the Equal Pay Act, which would not come easy. She proposed the idea of the Equal Pay Act in May 1955. ...

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Until the 1980s men exceeded women in undergraduate enrollment, but since then women have overtaken men in this aspect due to contributing factors such as altered perceptions of marriage, the rise of the women's liberation movement, an increase in women joining the labor force, men finding alternative jobs that don't require secondary schooling. ... Of the women that did work in the 1960s, 38%, were limited to jobs such as teachers, nurses, or secretaries, all gender based occupations, and were unwelcome in professional fields; making up only six percent of doctors, three percent of...

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Introduction Hundreds of companies in the United States started moving their customer service jobs to India in the late 1990s (Patel, 2008). ... On one hand, Indian women working in call centers experience a greater freedom of movements as they now work at night in order to provide a 24/7 customer service as "physical mobility and temporal mobility are jobs requirements" are job requirements" (Patel, 2008, p. 3). ... In addition to the common wage disparity between male and female, the "aggressive" types of jobs pay better, therefore secluding women in an "etiquet...

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It will then prove this in economic aspect, namely land, time, and job payment, as well as in social aspect. ... Much of the "women's job" were done without any pay. In the paid job, the payment is lower than that of men. ... The line between "natural women kind of job" and the "paid job" is blurred. ...

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Affirmative action is a major issue because it grants access to institutions and jobs based on innate characteristics such as skin color or gender, and not by just merit. ... Similarly, a study done in 1988 found that workplace discrimination was the "number one barrier" for women in achieving future promotions .Even in today's supposedly "more equal" workplace, men in higher-paying jobs are promoted at a rate almost 40% greater than their female counterparts. The types of jobs women have are also limited by their gender: only 3% of firefighters are women, 8% of police...

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Cannery work was available in Seattle, but the biggest city in Oregon, Portland, did not have a large industrial center and office jobs were reserved for the educated males. ... By gaining the respect of men, by doing a man's job, the women of the Pacific Northwest enjoyed the political benefits of suffrage years before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. However, still the women of today lack the equal rights of men in economic areas, for instance equal pay for equal work. ...

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"The media focuses so much on telling girls that being "skinny as a board" is so beautiful, rather then paying attention to the intent that being overweight is not healthy. ... We are constantly exposed to the media that does a great job at saying how beautiful girl's natural beauty is, but an awful job at actually showing it, by hiding it all behind the "perfect image....

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These cultures oftentimes make the employees careless and not perform their job as well as they could, this is an issue because, "typical managerial activities in this realm include motivating employees to work harder, ensuring that employees " jobs are properly designed, resolving conflict, evaluating performance, and helping workers set goals to achieve rewards (Griffin, Moorehead, 2012). " Managers do not enforce optimal quality food and service, which in the long run will form a permanent reputation to the restaurant being a low standard establishment. ... The waitresses make a wage that i...

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Robinson could not be forced to leave an area because men wished to tell sexual jokes or hang sexual calendars if what she was doing was one of her job's duties. ... Robinson was harmed because she was subject to work in conditions where she was uncomfortable and unable to fulfill the duties of her job without discomfort. ... This could cause a problem with her was of life because her pay will be affected. If she can not perform the necessary work she will not receive her pay. ...

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" Most accounts have assumed that one of the profound changes to the status of women, was the erosion of the sex segregation of jobs characteristic of the pre war economy." ... Rates of pay were legislated, however this agreement was welcomed by feminists who were keen to see sex segregation eradicated. ... Moreover it is widely acknowledge that women received a hostile welcome by male employees and managers, and openly expressed their doubts about women's ability to cope with male jobs. ... A wartime social survey concluded that out of 2, 609 women, 25% replied that they would conti...

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" A manny is a male who takes on the job as a full time nanny, who cooks, cleans, and babysits. ... Studies have been done showing that even if the women in the family have a full-time job as well as the men the women still get home in the early afternoon. ... After paying that amount you may not even get the results you want after dieting, eating right, exercising, and an expensive trainer. ... The advertisement is basically saying that it's the women's job to keep the men full and never hungry by Indicating that if an NFL player's mom can do it so cans any other person (I...

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Also, women who choose to have a part time job are completely missing out on the long-term earnings of their employment and the better career expectations. ... Women should have the same pay as men in the same positions for the reasons 30 and more countries closed the gender gap. ... In refuting the counterargument, it is easily said, finding a job and being equipped doesn't require the physical features and personality aspects of men. ...

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With this being said, it's understandable for little boys toys to encourage risk taking behaviors, the jobs that are created for men are more of a "macho " and risk taking field. ... I realized that when girls are anxiously waiting in line for their parents to pay for their toys they typically tend to hold their toys close to their heart, meaning they usually hold it up towards their chest. ...

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An economic disparity exists between men and women and this is derived from a conflict between work and family, which is a cost women have to pay and is not endured equivalently by men (Walker, 1999, p. 25). ...

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