Societal and financial matters are not directly held and taken care of by the presidency, they are in fact handled by the congress which is the main politic and governmental institution of a country. Current governments more precisely congress try to improve the functioning of their society and economy by proposing and passing laws that might or might not apply to all. This essay will emphasize on a passed by the congresswoman Martha Roby focusing on the functioning of companies specifically employees that may get paid for overtime work. This new law proposed by the bill passed by the congress and according to the congress website, referred to the House of Education and to the Workforce subcommittee on workforce protections, is in …show more content…
In fact, she believes that it will be a helpful option especially for women. As she states in the CNN website, this law will help women who work on the average “do more child rearing and housework than working men do” (Calder, May 2017) and she also declares in the article that women fairly and extremely value flexibility at work thus giving them the opportunity to have compensated time- off is one way to value their housework, such as taking care of the family, doing chores etc…, implicitly . While some might agree and approve the main goal of this law and see its benefits, others are not completely disapprovers of it. Linda Meric, the national director of the Association of Working Women called 9to was one them. In fact, as she declared in the Huffington Post, the Working Families Flexibility Act will not be helpful to women but instead would “hurt them” (Meric, April 2017). The national director argues that the law is a sort of pact forcing workers to “spend more time away from their families” (2017) in exchange for a short amount of time off later on to get to enjoy their family. The national Partnership for women and families stands beside Linda Meric as they also think that this bill is an “empty promise”. They think that the law provides less flexibility and less pay to workers. The national partnership believe that the law
As more women in the United States join the workforce, policy needs to reflect and benefit these working mothers. This creates a balancing act between gender equality, a popular issue amongst political candidates, and paid maternity leave. America cannot expect to have one without the other.
Due America’s legal, social, and economic situation, women who have children do need support from public policy to combine employment and family responsibilities. Public policy contributes to maintaining inequalities by instating policies that are more favorable to a dominant group or groups in society (p. 232). Race and class are also key components of public policy. Public policy instructs social laws in order to maintain inequality, such as promoting reproductive labor in order to oppress workingwomen. Reproductive labor refers to all of the work women do in the household (p. 257). Assisting women who work and have family obligations through the support of public policy is important because not only it would produce hardworking, law-abiding
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Krashinsky begins his argument by acknowledging the fact that a clear majority of mothers with young children are working, and the rate at which this is occurring has grown consistently since 1976. This is a direct result of the feminist movement, as a combination of factors such as higher pay, less discrimination, and more schooling, has resulted in young women beginning to view a life in the workplace as normal. As a result of this, many mothers are not going to stop working unless a policy offers them a significant sum, which would undoubtedly cost more than the best childcare program available. Instead of trying to prevent mothers from working, we should encourage them
Today there are two countries in the world that do not currently guarantee paid maternity leave for employed new mothers and/or expecting mothers, those countries are the United States and Papua New Guinea, according to the International Labour Organization, an United Nations agency, which recommends a minimum 18 week maternity leave (Rubin 2016, p.1). In recent years, the controversial issue of guaranteed maternal leave has been a prominent topic of debate amongst political activists and elites, particularly in the United States, where reform is a feasible option but has yet to be achieved. It is this absence of policy that serves to provide guaranteed maternal for all working mothers that has been linked to significant health related issues; these adverse effects not only impacts those mothers, but their children as well. Although paid maternal leave remains a controversial matter, policy reform that implements such leave is not only a feasible option in the United States, both economically and politically, it is an ethical necessity in order to facilitate the well-being of American women. Thus, in order to work toward ethical political/governmental policy that supports the well-being of women in the United States’ workforce, it is crucial that guaranteed paid maternal policy is implemented.
It caused the economy to go down as close as the bottom. Thus, women who made up half of the population were no longer ignored. They were able to work, and therefore, helped to improve the economy. Even though women are able to work, they are excluded from most of benefits provided by their employers since most of those jobs are part-time and temporary. Not only do they not receive benefits like permanent employees, they are easily to get fire as well. These types of jobs have little regulations for female employees. Nevertheless, female full-time workers are no better than those part-timers. The author of Under The Bus and a labor law practiced person, Fredrickson admitted that those labor laws abandoned numbers of women. They do not get either paid or unpaid family leave, or even overtime benefits. They only receive limit paid sick leave and healthcare from their jobs. Some employers even drop the working hours in order to not giving out these benefits. The worse treatment that women suffer in addition to the above disadvantages is that they are obliged to go to work immediately after they give birth to their children. This is extremely ridiculous. It shows that employers do not concern about their employees’ health at all. Imagined how tiring it is to give birth and how much the newly born children need their mothers for feeding or taking care especially in poor families that could not even afford for nannies (2015). As a result, the labor laws that established to protect employees did not include women at all. Thus women still have limit access to those benefits that they supposed to get. Forcing women to work without thinking about providing those protections or advantages would not only affect their work performance, it also affects their family
The Urban Institute published a case study that promotes the creation of national paid family leave policy in the United States. In the study, it is shown that this issue has been debated countless times in the past. George H.W. Bush even vetoed an unpaid family leave act during his presidency. This displays the struggles of enacting policy relating to this issue. The lack of a national paid family leave program in the US has left working mothers with three options: “return to work immediately after childbirth, quit employment, or take unpaid leave” (Urban Institute, 2017, p.3). The issue with these options include, loss of pay, unemployment, or the lack of parental presence in a child’s early development. Moreover, although some private companies offer paid leave, less educated and lower income mother have little access to this paid leave, which exacerbates their financial instability, keeping them in a lower societal class. This study found that not only is the current system is inadequate, but it is also inequitable, which causes financial hardships across the nation. According to the study, there has even been a 32% decrease in income after childbirth. Although this is the current situation, some states have enacted a statewide paid family leave program, which displays
With those occupational areas (from the OTPF) listed above, what are some intervention strategies/methods or strategies to help Mark. Name at least 5 strategies or provide a treatment plan outlined for Mark.
The unfinished goals of feminism include recognizing that women’s work has equal value to their male counterparts, understanding that one of our human rights is reproductive freedoms, abolishing violence among women, and uprooting sexism and racism together (Steinem 2017). Instead of being a social issue, Steinem (2017) argues that reproductive freedoms are in fact human rights that affect everything else in life. In addition to equal pay for equal work, Steinem (2017) states that work needs to be redefined to include caregivers who make up two thirds of the adult population in the United States. Without a national program and standard for childcare, the cost of
Recently women’s rights and women’s equality in the workplace has come back to the fore as a topic for discussion in government agencies and the United Nations. Whilst this is a very important topic, when it comes to time off from work when a new child is born, women in the US have some provision, whereas men have none.
I would advise Shania that an LLC would be the best form of business to accomplish her goals. Shania wants to open a Christian coffeehouse and already has a name in mind. Colorado LLC laws allow LLCs to be formed with one or more members, taxes them at a lower rate like partnerships and sole proprietorships, and provides the members with lower liability that protects them from the company’s debt (Scrofano, n.d.). This form of business will give Shania the ability to name her company what she wants and run it how she wants. The limited liability is also desirable.
For this case study I am going to discuss 3 health promotions, the 3 health promotions I will be discussing are; obesity, exercise and smoking. All 3 of these health promotions are from a patient whose care I was involved with for a number of weeks. I have gained full consent from the patient and their relatives. In relation to the Data Protection Act 1998 (Legislation.gov.uk, 1988)
“The vast majority of Americans (79%) rejected the notion that women should return to their traditional role in society. Yet when they were asked what is best for young children, very few adults (16%) said that having a mother who works full time is the “ideal situation.” Some 42% said that having a mother who works part time is ideal and 33% said what’s best for young children is to have a mother who doesn’t work at all. Even among full-time working moms, only about
Gilberts concludes that the nation (United States) is neutral to the question “Should moms stay at home" (85). It is a choice; there are policies for the women with children that would like to work. These policies "...give equal consideration to the diverse values that influence how women
Sadly, I was mistaken. After reading the article Working Women are Hurting the Family by Richard Lowry, I was left with a bad taste in my mouth and a pounding headache. In his article, Lowry declares war on American society for bamboozling women into believing that they want jobs. In his opinion all women desire to be with their children and by selfishly choosing to get a job they are, in his words, “abandoning their children” at day cares and causing them to become aggressive.