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    allowing women to file a claim possible wage discrimination. April 8th is now considered “equal pay day,” an annual event to raise awareness to the sex-based wage gap issue. Women are projected to be paid $248,120 less than males over their career when compared to a man in the state of Florida. Florida currently holds the lead for smallest wage gap between males and females, imagine the other 51 states in that case. As for parts of the LGBT community, gay men earn 10% to 32% less than heterosexual men.

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    Gender Inequality Research Paper Gender inequality is a critical issue that affects more women than their male counterparts all around the world. Gender inequality is a form of legal discrimination towards women’s rights. In order to progress and grow as a community and society, gender equality needs to be acknowledged. According to LISTVERSE, the top ten “extreme” examples of gender inequality towards women that exists around the world today, specifically in the Middle East and North Africa, are

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    Coed Sports in All High Schools All high schools should have coed sports because it allows everyone to participate whether it is a girls or boys sport and it doesn't discriminate a boy or girls ability to play a sport classified as a certain gender. Eli is a boy who wants to participate in volleyball and goes to tryouts. When he arrives he sees that there is only girls here and he is the only boy, when the coach sees him she asks if he is in the right place and wasn't looking for basketball. He tells

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    gained popularity amongst a large amount of people is the gender inequality in the workplace. As this social issue became a consideration to many, there has been many studies conducted to aid others in becoming more educated and aware of the issue. The social issue of gender inequality in the workplace is in favour of many sociological concepts, such as the conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, microsociology, stereotypes, and gender norms. Additionally, glass escalator is a modern term that

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    “Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender.” According to united nations population fund “gender equality is a human right. Men and Women are entitled to live with dignity and with freedom from want and from fear. Gender equality is also a precondition for advancing development and reducing poverty: Empowered women contribute to the health and productivity of whole families and communities, and they improve prospects for the next generation”

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    dominated society, it is challenging for a woman’s opinion and voice to be heard, and easy for gender inequality to thrive. Women have succeeded a great amount when it comes to comparison of how they were treated in the past, both in society and under the law, but the discrimination is still significant globally, even in areas such as Canada. Under the law, all individuals are the equivalent, regardless of one’s gender, race, or background, but in society women are still not treated with the same respect

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    construction and experience of gender inequality. Men and women are constantly analyzed, compared, and grouped together in society. The result of this yields discrepancies in how sexes are viewed by society. Throughout my examination and explanation of gender inequality, I concluded both men and women are victims to gender inequality. I examined different professional industries in The United States to get a familiar understanding of gender inequality around me. Gender inequality does not particularly

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    most talked about topics in education is the widening achievement gap between male and female students. It has been debated for more than a decade of why male students are falling behind in the educational system. There is significant evidence to believe that this is a phenomenon. However, there is not a concrete answer as to why male students are lacking academically. This leads to two possible lines of thinking about gender gaps: Either they represent the innate biological differences in males’

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    I have chosen to look at 3 independent variables; Education, Gender and Religion to see the level of statistical significance in relation to income. In terms of a previous literature I have reviewed different types of literature in order to understand the relationship of these independent variables to income and have looked at the Theory of human Capital in regards to education by Becker (2009), theories that discuss the gender pay gap, and also Max Weber’s renowned book of The Protestant Ethic and

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    2005). However, in the past few decades, there has been gradual changes occurred in the Australian gender order (ibid.). Even though men are the dominant gender in the workforce, due to globalization, women gained more opportunity to have jobs in the workforce (Jones 1983). In addition, there are increasing number of women in Australian workforce after World War 2 (Broomhill and Sharp 2005). But still gender inequality has been ongoing debate in the workforce for

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