Currently in the United States, same-sex couples in long-term, committed relationships pay higher taxes and are denied basic protections and rights granted to married couples. ... Gay employees who do receive health coverage for their partners must pay federal income taxes on the value of the insurance. ... Married workers are legally entitled to unpaid leave from their jobs to care for an ill spouse. ... Laws protect married seniors from being forced to sell their homes to pay high nursing home bills; gay and lesbian seniors have no such protection. ... After the death of a worker, most p...

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African Americans will continue to be prevented from obtaining high paying corporate jobs, women will persistently be portrayed as nothing more than sex toys or house wives, and gays and lesbians will still be prohibited from obtaining a legal marriage license. ...

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These two forms of organisation involve paying a certain amount of money into a fund that is accessible to everyone periodically. ... As the wage earner reaches retirement, usually around the age of 40 as mining is a physically demanding and labour intensive job and the older people get it becomes difficult to work, his wealth is relies largely on his kept livestock and livestock payments of bride wealth from son-in-laws. ... Those borrowing the livestock receive some aid from it including paying the bride price, wool and ploughing. ...

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The magnitude of this social program would indeed be very large and involve high scale costs, but the government already burdens its taxpayers by paying for other social programs that closely relate to divorce. ... Many have not been out in the work field for the length of their marriage, and if even if they do return the lack of education and skill limit their ability to find a well paying job that will support her family and herself. ... Our society is accustomed to the idea that all fathers pay child support after divorce, but in most cases that is not true regardless if there was a court...

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For example, Brent Hartinger in her article wrote, Two women, Sandra Rovira and Majorie Forlini, lived together in a marriage like relationship for twelve years "and now after her partner's death, Rovira is suing AT&T, Forlini's employer, for refusing to pay the death benefits the company usually provides surviving spouses. (278) For example, AT&T decided not to give certain benefits to this couple just because there were two females who lived to together rather than a man and woman. ... Furthermore, maybe before the employee started the job there was probably an agreement sp...

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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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" 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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She learns how to fix latches, pay the bills and provide for her kids; which is usually the responsibility of the man. ... Assatoui decided to leave her husband and purse a higher education; which resulted in her acquiring a job at the United States Embassy. ... The second case of abandonment was when Assoite pruing a higher form of education and obtaining a job with the United States Embassy. ...

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People are choosing different types of education degrees, getting different kinds of jobs, taking a variety of transportation, tasting food from other countries, learning the news from the world through the internet media every day. ... But the significant meaning for women is that family is not the only part of women's life, women have the right to enter the labor market and get job now. ...

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Children growing up with both biological parents are likely to be better educated, have better job skills, have a more secure sense of self, and thus enter adulthood with greater chances of success both professionally and personally. ... A major constraint of families and work is the need for workers in low-paying jobs, long hours, and very few people who are willing or able to work under these circumstances. ...

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Much research has been done to identify the factors that contribute to marital dissolution. Identifying these predictors of divorce can help better understand marital relationships and can help prevent divorce. The causes of divorce discussed in this paper include, equity of housework and its r...

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