Fairly recently in our country, anyone who was not a white male had a very slim chance of obtaining a well-paid job or a promotion. ... The most obvious type of sexual harassment is direct, for example, when an employer extends job opportunities, raises, or promotions as a reward for sexual favors. ... Jobs were appraised by the board for their equivalency, and comparable pay was required. ... While the Equal Pay Act does require employers to pay women and men equally for equal work, the act has no impact upon the fact that jobs which were traditionally held by women pay lower wages. As the c...

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The change has been to that of a wife who can manage their time by having a job, doing the housework and taking care of their children. ... Women in their hundreds and thousands took on work, some of this was traditionally men's jobs. ... These women were still receiving little compared to men who were do the same job. By 1950 women earned only 75% of the male rate of pay for the same work. ... Even when this legislation for equal pay was introduced in 1958 it was not fully established until 1966. ...

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The people were forced to leave their homes and jobs, taking almost nothing with them. ... America was paying for their own weapon creation, but were also supplying their allies, circulating more currency into the economy. ... Formerly facing discrimination in the job market, they found many positions that were unavailable to them. Jobs women could find paid significantly less than men. ... Women loved to finally be able to work, but they were still frustrated at unfair pay. ...

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In the peace settlement, it was agreed that certain countries would pay other countries war reparations. Obligations to pay back war debts slowed business expansion and international trade. In order to make money, governments then had to raise tariffs in order to pay for importation of resources and goods. ... In the 1920s the production of goods exceeded the demand for the products and as a result a vast number of factories were closed, which put many employees without a job. ...

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They toke on responsibility for the jobs that were for men. ... Times were very hard and money was tight Factory had a lot of woman who had to work under very poor conditions for very little pay . ... In America " women volunteered in factory jobs worked in building that fix aircraft, tanks and armament factory jobs once held by men who were called away to fight in the war... The girls were brought to Japan by false promises of more pay jobs and better food supply; or, they were threatened at gunpoint and kidnaped. Soon as the girls arrived in Japan, they were forced into sexual slavery,...

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(Harcourt School Publishers) "For years women had been limited to sewing clothing, painting faces on watches and other low-paying jobs in light-manufacturing. ... In many cases they were now viewed as equal employees capable of any job a man was. The women who worked in factories were truly appreciated for the jobs they were doing. ... Women's entry into defense jobs signaled a major breakthrough in their employment patterns. These jobs, concentrated in heavy industry, were both better paying and laden with symbolic value, they were men's jobs. ...

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This lead to the gigantically high unemployment rates, which on its turn lead to an extremely high amount of overproduction (after all, people with no jobs could hardly spend much money on primary and secondary needs, let alone tertiary needs). ... We would not have tried to squeeze out every cent of our incomes to pay for a vacation trip that is better and longer than last years. We would not massively have ran to our banks for even larger loanes, for which we "only" have to pay 11% interest, in order to buy that all-important house on Martha's Vineyard. ... Because they didn't real...

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This because neighbours are obviously jealous that the Bianchi own their home through their hard work, and still other neighbours have to pay for their rant. ... It is observed that migrants are discriminated in jobs due to their religion, race and colour. Some Muslims hold the view that they don't get jobs due to their religion. ...

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The thirties brought more Americans together socially, but unfortunately most blacks and immigrants felt racism very strong during this period in America, denying immigrants and blacks jobs or not paying them as much as a white American male. ... Jobs were becoming less scarce because of the demand for supplies, which created job opportunities for women, blacks, and immigrants. ...

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As people lost their jobs they were not able to pay their debts. They could not pay back the loan companies. ... Once people lost their jobs and money the had less to spend. ... You are paying interest on a loan for a stock which itself is being used as collateral. ... The job was market was terrible and the unemployment rate shot out the roof. ...

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In addition to manufacturing new cars, the auto manufacturers, directly or indirectly create jobs for dealers, salesmen, secretaries, parts manufacturing, service personnel, tire manufactures, and tire sales people and more. ... The first casualties of recession are debtors, and like the Mortgage industry, the Auto industry depends on people paying down the notes that they finance. ... Nobody is happy about the state of the economy, but the fact is as much as inclination is to punish those in charge, punishing automakers punishes everybody, including the true culprits in the fiasco; individual...

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In addition to manufacturing new cars, the auto manufacturers, directly or indirectly create jobs for dealers, salesmen, secretaries, parts manufacturing, service personnel, tire manufactures, and tire sales people and more. ... The first casualties of recession are debtors, and like the Mortgage industry, the Auto industry depends on people paying down the notes that they finance. ... Nobody is happy about the state of the economy, but the fact is as much as inclination is to punish those in charge, punishing automakers punishes everybody, including the true culprits in the fiasco; individual...

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Another incentive to taking an industrial job was that this type of employment was like a man's job, for a man's pay. Industrial jobs were also not as difficult as domestic work, which appealed to women. ... The caption above her picture reads, "We can do it", or "Do the job he left behind". ... The truth was that industrial jobs paid higher than other jobs for women such as retail, or secretarial positions (Gluck 110). ... Basically these women were willing to do everything in their power to keep the job they loved. ...

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Other women reacted differently; they found war jobs enabling them to make wages that they had never made before on places like farms, war plants, or automobile companies. It became normal to see a woman being just as successful as a man in these jobs that were primarily looked at as "men's work". An important outcome of having women entering these jobs was that the government established a Woman in Industry Service in June of 1918. ... At this point the Equal Pay Act of 1963 required equal pay for men and women for equal work performed on equal conditions. ... Under the Equal Pay Act o...

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Hitler had too much control over the Nazi party; for example he attacked the government and assured that the Nazi party would assure jobs for workers and greatness for Germany. ... For example, most of the people had begun to get homes, jobs, and had hope for the future. ... This depression started the same year that Germany agreed to pay the Young Plan, which it had agreed to follow to pay off the war debt. ... In conclusion you can see Hitler was looking for someone to pay for what happened to Germany in the World War I. ...

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Advertisers appealed to the morality of buying now paying later rather than spending all your money at once which created a sense of guilt. ... White collar jobs seemed to be the answer; although the jobs help provide for families it took away the significance of working. White collared jobs replaced guilds because of the mass need of employment. ... White collared jobs have to take some of the blame for this accusation. ... The enormous amounts of new families emerging after World War II forced families to live in suburbs of houses that look the same, the job market to open up white collared ...

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Both my mother and step-father have oil field related jobs. Fortunately, they only received pay reductions and did not get laid off. Along with the pay reductions my parents received, every overtime hour was cut. The decrease in pay, along with no overtime hours recorded, amounted for an income of $1,500 less a month. ... For a while we had no electricity because we could not pay the bill. ...

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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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Veterans returning from war found it hard to find jobs as factories cut back or shut down. ... The majority of immigrants worked in industrial jobs. ... If an immigrant gains employment, he does so only by displacing an American who previously held that job. ... Before several Womens Rights movements women were not allowed to vote, had to submit to laws that they had no voice in forming, married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law, married women had no property rights, husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat ...

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Like always, the U.S tried to be the world's banker ,but this time it backfired on them .Europe could not pay back the interest on the loans nor could they buy any goods with gold, so this led the America to "The Great Depression" real fast . ... People were loosing their jobs daily and couldn't afford health care, housing or food . ... President Roosevelt's "New Deal's" such as : National Recovery Administration , Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Tennessee Valley Authority worked right along the side of the of the rest of Roosevelts n...

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As thousands of men from around the country shipped off to Europe and the Pacific in an effort to protect their country and allies, hundreds of women headed to the factories, offices and military bases to work in jobs that had been previously reserved for men only. It had been long assumed that jobs such as engineering, manufacturing and professions in the sciences were men's work and were things that women could or should not do.(3) With such a large number of men away at war a void was created and women took advantage of this. Women took jobs in factories working shoulder-to-shoulder wi...

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This campaign was created because when men left for war, there were many jobs that needed to be filled. ... Another incentive to taking an industrial job was that this type of employment was like a man's job, for a man's pay. Industrial jobs were also not as difficult as domestic work, which appealed to women. ... The truth was that industrial jobs paid higher than other jobs for women such as retail, or secretarial positions (Gluck 110). ... Basically these women were willing to do everything in their power to keep the job they loved. ...

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From the decisions made, Germany had lost everything She was asked to pay £6600 million for the damage caused to both France and Belgium (of which has only recently fully been paid out), she had lost land to Poland, all of Germany's colonies where made into Entente colonies, The Austrian Empire was broken up and Austria was forbidden to Ally with Germany. ... The Treaty of Versailles destroyed the German economy in the 1920s and many Germans had lost their savings and their jobs. They couldn't afford to afford to develop their country purely because they were forced to pay for ...

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Since the U.S. is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and a permanent member of the UN, the U.S. has to pay the largest amount of money to pay for peacekeeping missions. Many people arguer that the United States pays more than its fare share for peacekeeping efforts. ... To keep peace in the world that is a small price to pay. ... Which take them away form their job of protecting the United States. ...

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This was a heavy blow for Germany because they were borrowing money from America to try and pay back the reparations which were made from The Treaty of Versailles'. These were World War One payments, which Germany had to pay for the Great War. ... Hitler got Robert Lay to set up various employment schemes between the years 1933 and 36, the idea was jobs for all. ...

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