Higher Opportunity Cost

In the past females have achieved less well than boys at higher levels in the education system, then during the 1990', the girls over took boys at all levels in the education system. The percentage of females in the UK achieving two or more A-levels or equivalent has increased from 20% in 1990 to 42% in 2006. Over the same time period, the percentage of males achieving the same level increased from 18% to 33%. On the other hand, there still continues to be a large difference in the choice of subjects by males and females. Even with the national curriculum being restrictive in the lower levels, meaning both male and females do the same subjects, when they get to a-levels and degree level, both male and females still tend to choose different

Jeff Arnold 10 Is Climate Change impacting Vermont? Is Climate Change affecting the state of Vermont? First we need to find out what professionals are defining the term climate change as. Some people want to refer to climate change as specifically air temperature increases. But “Global Warming” refers to the long term warming of the planet. Global temperature shows a well-documented rise since the early 20th century and most notably since the late 1970s. Worldwide, since 1880 the average surface temperature has gone up by about 0.8°C(1.4°F), relative to the mid-20th-century baseline((n.d.). In Global Climate Change Vital Signs of the Planet). Climate change takes global warming into account and also takes rising sea levels, shrinking of

Men and women also have different opinions and reactions to leaving the house for work, Dorment says. Men today want to be better fathers than men in previous generations, men still feel like they have to provide for the family, even if they have wives that bring in forty-five percent of the family income (Dorment 709). This is why men feel as though they can work long hours away from home. They feel as though they are sacrificing time with their kids to provide for the family (even though they may still miss their kids). Women, Dorment points out, have a different reaction to leaving their kids to go to work. They feel guilty and experience

Things seem to move slower here than other places, so maybe it will take longer for us to view women equally with men. More women may also be attending college more than they were a decade ago, and hopefully that will make some difference, but as the article stated even education matched, men will still hold those higher paying jobs. Is it because men have for so long been the bread winners in the family, and employers view women as more of second income, so they are more apt to give that job to a man believing that it is his responsibly to support a family?

Women's careers are difficult to get. Workers preferably like men more than woman, so men are for sure to get what they want but not so much for women. Society thinks that men are better than women. The likelihood of women getting a job is very not so high, because

who would say the work place isn’t suited for men? Would there be as strong a demand for more

Due to these beliefs women are marrying later, having fewer children and divorcing more often. Men use to except that their careers would be more important than their wives’ and that they would do less child care, and because of these conflicting attitudes, women sometimes feel unable to work even if they want to. Also according to Stuart Sidle “the husbands work load had a strong influence on decisions to leave the workforce with women with husbands working over 45 hours per week having a greater likelihood of leaving the workforce than women with husbands who worked between 35-45 hours per week

All mothers have the protective instinct for their children. So what happens if they have a baby then go back on the job and ended wanting to leave completely, they will not be able to leave until their contract is fully done and completed if they do not fulfill the contract they will be sent to court martial. So I leave that women should stay at home with their children because they can handle it way more than men can. Don’t get me wrong some men take care of their kids great but it’s better for a mom to stay home with them and make sure absolute everything is going okay and won’t have to stress about it as much when you are away from them.

In the 21st Century the number of women enrolling in higher education institutions is surpassing the numbers of men enrolled. The graduation rates of women from high school and higher education are most often higher than for men. The number of women graduates from most professional occupations, including higher paying medicine, law and business, will exceed the number of men graduates in the near future. In numerous occupational areas with a majority of women graduates, salaries already surpass salaries in occupational areas with a majority of men graduates.

In some instances, one salary may not be sufficient to maintain the family needs. When a woman takes up maternity leave depending on the circumstance, her spouse may want to be there to assist. In taking up paternity leave the father can be present to lend his support in one way or another. Taking time off from work to be at home with the family for a few weeks does not take away a man’s role in the family. Fathers play an important role in child-rearing. A man who loves his family and has family values would see no fault in staying at home for a few weeks to lend support and assist his spouse with little things like change diapers, give baths, make meals and clean the house. While the “rest of the men” are doing “stuff”, men who are confident and value their family do “stuff” with them.

Since women’s acceptance in the labour market the typical Australian family being ‘male breadwinner’ have been replaced by ‘dual income’ families where one partner works full-time while the other works part-time (Chesters 2011). As a result, there was an adjustment in the division of domestic labour where it became more equal as couples divide their time between paid and unpaid work (Chesters 2013). According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS 2009) gender roles in housework became more flexible whilst women participate in paid employment. Men would spend more time doing ‘core female’ domestic activities such as cooking and laundry and less time on outdoor activities such as home maintenance and lawn mowing (ABS 2009). In addition, men take on a greater role with regard to childcare where they spend more of their care time on play activities, these activities are normally done the same time as other activities (ABS 2009). However, some research has found that the ‘more dependent husbands are on their wives for income the less housework’ they would do in order to protect their masculinity (Baxter, Hewitt & Western 2009). Although there is hardly any difference in time spend on household work between full-time and part-time employed men it is is evident unemployed men spend only between 4 and 5 hours more doing housework as

Masculine cultures are environments that fosters great sense of belonging and ability to be successful in boys rather than in girls. One aspect is the stereotype in Computer Science where the theme image is that of someone who is only focused on programming and being socially awkward. This goes against what women see themselves. (Women are socially conscious). However, the number of females taking law and medicine has risen over the past decade. This can be related to the popular culture of seeing women rise in these fields on the T.V.

Women have the qualities that are needed to become good engineers. The only way that women are different from men in the field is in the training. Women have all the capability to become good engineers as men if they can receive the proper/same training, employment and promotion as men. In receiving training women make up a extremely small amount of the student population in science related majors. Only 53% of the total students in Scotland universities are women. However bellow 19% are studying engineering, computer studies, and physicals sciences. Likewise, University students in Germany were only 48% women. Of the 48% of women only 20% of the engineering students are women. Women are the minority in engineering and like courses. In Bulgarian they limited women to only be allowed to make up 50% of engineering students.

The survey found that it was still very rare for fathers to take primary responsibility for childcare in dual-earner families, no-earner families or families where only the woman worked, showing again inequality in conjugal roles. Therefore Ferri and Smiths findings disagree with the statement, showing inequality in conjugal roles. Many women agree with Ferri and Smith that it is they rather than their

It is not a secret that women often take on the majority of the parenting/household responsibilities in heterosexual households. Sabattini explains, “With the birth of the first child, the division of labor between couples typically becomes more traditional as women assume the primary responsibility for both household and parenting chores …. Although most mothers work outside of the home, comparatively few fathers are equally involved in the domestic labor.” This is referred to as the “second shift” for mothers who have jobs outside of the home. Not only do mothers tend to do more of the parenting labor (figure 1), they tend to do more of the “feminine” work while their male partner’s do more of the “masculine” work. Specifically, mothers do more household chores such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, and dishes. Fathers tend to do more masculine chores such as home repair, lawn care, and handling electronics. Mothers also tend to engage in more of the emotional labor of raising children. Mothers are more likely to handle emotional distress, social training, and discipline. According to Bush, “Dads approach parenting with different priorities than we mothers do. They tend to care less about dress, eating habits, and other details. Instead, dads tend to want to play with kids more and challenge them more, and this can help kids gain confidence.” Fathers are much less concerned with mundane, day to day tasks. This concept is displayed in the home life of most people.