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    There are many issues going on in the public sphere, but the one I want to address would be if women are equally qualified as men for higher paying professional jobs. One text that helps support this issue is a video I found on TED Talk given by Debbie Sterling. In the video, Debbie asked the audience a series of questions about engineers, and then she goes on and explains how difficult it is for women to become engineers because they are set to a social bias. Debbie Sterling discussed that most

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    article, review, I am focusing on diversity at the workplace. This is a topic very relevant and important for any organizations success. Diversity at the workplace refers to any characteristic that makes people different from one another. Today’s workforce is a diverse mix in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, generational attitudes. It is important for an organization to adopt diversity management practices to bring this diverse mix together into a stable productive unit. The marketplace is more global

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    fact that a pay gap exists based on gender is no secret. Between television advertisements and movements for equal pay for equal work between men and women, one would imagine United States society to stand by the “all men created equal” clause, and pay employees based on their talent, qualifications, and contributions. A possibility as to why women are paid less than men for completing the same job could be due to social stigmas and stereotypes that have stemmed from the Holy Bible eventually leading

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    suppressed women to second-class status. Women were under the control of their husbands and needed their permission to get a job or even obtain a credit card. Poorly portrayed and stereotyped in stage and film roles, women were banned from obtaining an education and from many professional fields of work. But despite the success of the fight for women’s equality over the last 100 years, we need to acknowledge the fact that there is still much more work left to accomplish before women achieve full

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    democratic society, by allowing women the right to vote in elections. During the Progressive Era, women were taking professions as nurses, teachers, libraries, clerical workers, etc. These female-dominated professions were an improvement from the 19th century, but women were still not equally treated as men were. The Progressive Era will transition to the New Era shortly after The Great War occurs in 1917,

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    Australian Women

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    (Wikipedia, 2012). The roles of many women also changed during world war two and this impacted on their rights in the Australian nation and how they were perceived by the men in the workforce (women in the workforce, 2015). The forming of the ANZUS, The Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty, also played a significant role in shaping modern day Australia as it created a closer link between Australia

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    the European front, many of the male-dominated occupations were left vacant. As a result, women were suddenly permitted to venture from the domestic sphere they had been so fervently ingrained to maintain and into the workforce. The necessity of labor gave women a taste of independence, subsequently implanting the notion that women were just as capable as men, and should be treated so. In the decades since, women have increasingly implemented themselves into the job market, but even today are met with

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    the perception of women changed throughout the Second World War? World War Two (WW2) broke out in 1939 and would have great effect on the Australian Home Front. The impact was particularly felt by women and their role in society changed to a significant extent. These changes are clearly evident from many factors that took place during the course of the war although, the most significant changes were due to the introduction of women to the predominantly male orientated workforce, fashion change and

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    Population Survey reveals 47.6 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 44 do not have children. This percentage is the highest the calculation has been since the bureau started keeping track of this data in 1976. The senior editor of Mic, Elizabeth Plank says women choosing to not have children makes complete sense given the state of the country’s economy, the gender pay gap, and the outrageous cost of raising a child today. Women, especially millennial women, know of the consequences they will face

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    However, it is undisputed that the WWI changed the women 's historical process, particularly in European countries. Women 's employment scale was largely over prewar level; their status and position in wartime and postwar evoked a dispute. On one hand, the WWI brought the women unprecedented massive scale of employment that used to be unthinkable for them in the wartime; however, on the contrary, the war led to a rare proper sense of citizenship for women. This essay aims to take an analysis on how and

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