According to the Department of Justice and Attorney-General a gender pay-gap is common. ... Another proposed reason is male jobs are valued more than female jobs traditionally. ... This ultimately stimulates the business and provides jobs. ... Illegal immigrants do not have many opportunities with finding a job. ... Business owners who avoid paying mandatory taxes for personal gain is avarice. ...

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Some of the different areas of the law that affect women specifically include: Sex discrimination, equal pay, domestic violence, forcible rape, and equality, to name but a few. ... The government introduced two laws in the 1970's, a relatively short time ago, and long overdue, the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Equal pay act of 1970, (which was not put into force until 1975). ... However additional rights were introduced concerning pregnancy and maternity leave, The Employment Protection (consolidation) Act, 1978 and the Social Security Act 1986, these two Acts give four rights ...

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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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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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"I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. ... Women were not safe in the public sphere especially within the labor force, enduring harsh working conditions, sexual harassment and unequal pay. ... In 1923, women had finally succeeded in earning their right to (near) equal pay and better working conditions when the U.S. ... Our labor force would not be what it is today, there would be too many jobs, low corporate output, and a menacing blow to the economy, our current infrastructure would be falling apart. ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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She lived in an "old-world village", (verse 4), where there would perhaps be no factory or industrial jobs available. ... Some women in the Victorian period may have had to turn to prostitution in the period of the industrial revolution, where many jobs in factories had very low pay, poverty and "gruelling working conditions", (The Victorian Age, Topic 2). ...

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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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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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The aim of paying attention to the observing the opinion of an experts about the emancipation of women rights in our society, about what else the government can provide for women for free access to the political sphere except the formal decrees existing now. ... Moreover, in television, radio the job propaganda was high and was considered as th...

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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...

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