Society is dynamic, which brings about change including changing circumstances for parents, gender perceptions, changing role expectations, technology, & work patterns which all shape & bring about new government legislations, policies & supportive workplace structures in order to met the demands & needs of Australia's society. ... NSW Anti-discrimination was legislated making it unlawful for people to be discriminated against as an employee or job applicant on the grounds of age, sex, pregnancy, race, disability, homosexuality, gender, marital status & career responsibilities. ... Chang...

• Word Count: 2003
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I had always been a good student, and I had no intention of changing my study habits now that I was in high school. ... My principal and my coach also tried to get the board to change its decision, but they got the same response. So, in my junior year, at the height of my career, I changed schools. ... After all, I had gotten good grades up to this point, and I had no reason to think that the situation would change. ...

• Word Count: 1290
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• Grade Level: High School

Stereotypes limit women's career, because people have the old fashion opinion on woman. ... Dove- Viebahn mentions: "They are positioned between empowerment and compromise, career and family, political and personal, and self- acceptance and attempts to meet standards of beauty" (323). ... Those achieved women change people's opinions, their outstanding works represent a new period. ...

• Word Count: 1441
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• Grade Level: High School

The women involved in the Second Wave were fighting "for women to share in the opportunities and responsibilities men had, including creating a career, pushing off the drudgery of housework, and refusing to be held hostage by their reproductive systems" (Baumgardner, p. 38). There was also a need to fundamentally change the roles that society saw women as being born into. ... The feminist movement has been fighting for this change in society since the nineteenth century, and many accomplishments for the female gender have been achieved in the process. ...

• Word Count: 1285
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There is a lot of sexual discrimination against women and because of this discrimination, social mobility has been difficult, but it is certainly changing to benefit women. ... Third, we must change education so that women and men are not influenced to carry out dominance gender roles. ... Until we (society as a whole), bridge these gaps, equal pay, promotional opportunities, and equal work recognition will continue to be a hindrance for most career driven women in society....

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The idea of affirmative action was suitable in the time period in which it was written, but times have changed and the law needs to change in cooperation. I strongly believe in the idea that affirmative action proposes, but at the same time many people are being cheated out of career and educational opportunities because of the abuse of the plan. ...

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The Sex Discrimination Act also has limitations concerning attitudes, 'One set of considerations concern the inherent limits of law in changing the nature of society' (April Carter 1988), deep rooted attitudes cannot be simply changed because of a new law being passed, also similarly, another drawback is the attitude and acceptance of the Act by male workers and employers; The London School of Economics (LSE), carried out research on both the Sex Discrimiation Act and the Equal Pay Act between 1974 and 1977 to test their effectiveness in maintaining womens rights, it was found that i...

• Word Count: 2476
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Affirmative action is the source of many law suits and appeals that have often caused business's to constantly changing the hiring process and advancement selections. ... Affirmative action plans are intended to place woman and minorities in jobs and careers that have historically been closed to them. ...

• Word Count: 2301
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Objectionable options, such as surgical sex changes, are required before they could use such facilities, which are also beyond affordable cost. ... The anxiety created by these events caused a great deal of stress and adverse health consequences, prompting transgenders to quit their careers and live undeserving lives. ...

• Word Count: 1525
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Ageism influences the presence of diversity because those who are affected by ageism within their career may lose their job due to newer, younger, cheaper people coming into the workplace to take over their current position. ... How has the attitude toward people with disabilities changed over time? ...

• Word Count: 1617
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" She also said that after she finished competing in the Olympics that colleges offered the best boy swimmers scholarships to continue their career in college, but for her there was nothing. ... " (Blumenthal 57) Girls' Little Leagues started to spring up in March 1974 after Judges of the New Jersey Superior Court voted 2 to 1 to allow girls to play.2 They said they would "defer to the changing social climate.... While in the 2000s, the tides changed and the female population rose to 56% of the population. ...

• Word Count: 2009
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the stories "Raymond's Run" and "Gorilla My Love," Toni Cade Bambara, writes about unusual heroines - both called Hazel. However the character in "Raymond's Run," is known as and is referred to as Squeaky, mainly because of her voice, and because of the way that she is presented. To the reader, i...

• Word Count: 2209
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School