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Gender Equality In America Research Paper

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I met Kennedy Cole January 24, 2017 in my friend’s dorm and I asked her to be my conversational partner because she was the only person that I didn’t already know in the dorm. My first impression from her was “she is pretty and she smokes!” because in my culture, Korea, female smoking isn’t very common and I also wasn’t used to seeing smoking girls ever since I lived in America. Almost every time I see her and got to socialize with her, I saw her smoke with the electric cigarette and at first it shocked me that she smokes very often and when I asked her if girl smoking in America is common and doesn’t portray her bad, she replied, “Smoking isn’t only for men, women have the right to smoke how much she wants. Men and women are equal” (Kennedy …show more content…

Even though the equality score is over 70%, there are still lot of incident where women isn’t getting as much benefits as men do in America. NBA, National Basketball Association, is very famous sport in America; however, only NBA, men basketball team is very well known and not WNBA and the salary difference is ridiculous, “Diana Taurasi made the All-Women's National Basketball Association First Team in 2014 and helped the Phoenix Mercury win the league's championship. That season, she was paid the WNBA maximum salary of $107,500. In 2013-14, the Phoenix Suns employed Dionte Christmas for 198 minutes… he was paid the league minimum of $490,180” (David Berri …show more content…

United States of America has a long-term orientation score of 26/100, which means that America values present life and isn’t worried about the future life as much as they do in their present life. Per Alexa DeFiore (2013), Short Term Oriented countries prefer to follow along with tradition rather than take a route of saving their money with the drawback of having to sacrifice some of the things one want. For example, in long term orientated country, when they go to grocery to buy strawberry but sees that the blueberry is on sale, then they will buy blueberry instead but in short term orientated country, if they decided to buy strawberry, then they will buy strawberry although the blueberry is on sale (Alexa

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