Poverty and Welfare
Poverty exist because resources are scarce and cannot be equally distributed. Worldwide income is measured by Gini Index, (from zero to one) “If all the income in the world were earned by one person and everyone else earned nothing, the world would have a Gini index of one. If everyone in the world earned exactly the same income, the world would have a Gini index of zero ” (Lepore 2015). The Gini index simply measures the gap between the rich and poor, and for the U.S. the gap is .476, for any developed country with an established democracy. This cause 35% of you the Us population to scavenging for Welfare just to receive access food and shelter. Since the top one percent of the U.S. consumes “twenty-three per cent of …show more content…
Your sex does not determine one’s femininity or masculinity, but can affect affect one’s economic opportunity in life. When selecting a job, or major for college women tend to “focus on fields associated with caring nurturing, whereas men tend to pursue fields that emphasize logic and analysis”(Gidden) Jobs dominated by women psychology, nursing, elementary education are the lowest earn occupations “with [an] annual median earning of $29,000” while fields such as “aerospace engineering”and “petroleum engineering” which dominated by men have an annual earning of …show more content…
As women began to enter more male dominated fields, men get the opportunity to view the world from a woman 's perspective and can become more open minded about the problems they face and realize that men and women are pretty much the same. Sometimes all it takes is for a person to step out of their social norms to produce fruitful results, that can impact a community and soon impact a world. I know I will experience sexism on my route to pursuing an engineering degree, but I continue to tell myself "if it was easy everyone would do it," thus it’s just a game of gender and
Poverty exist because resources are scarce and cannot be equally distributed. Worldwide income is measured by Gini Index, (from zero to one) “If all the income in the world were earned by one person and everyone else earned nothing, the world would have a Gini index of one. If everyone in the world earned exactly the same income, the world would have a Gini index of zero ” (Lepore 2015). The Gini index simply measures the gap between the rich and poor, and for the U.S. the gap is .476, for any developed country with an established democracy. This cause 35% of you the Us population to scavenging for Welfare just to receive access food and shelter. Since the top one percent of the U.S. consumes “twenty-three per cent of …show more content…
Your sex does not determine one’s femininity or masculinity, but can affect affect one’s economic opportunity in life. When selecting a job, or major for college women tend to “focus on fields associated with caring nurturing, whereas men tend to pursue fields that emphasize logic and analysis”(Gidden) Jobs dominated by women psychology, nursing, elementary education are the lowest earn occupations “with [an] annual median earning of $29,000” while fields such as “aerospace engineering”and “petroleum engineering” which dominated by men have an annual earning of …show more content…
As women began to enter more male dominated fields, men get the opportunity to view the world from a woman 's perspective and can become more open minded about the problems they face and realize that men and women are pretty much the same. Sometimes all it takes is for a person to step out of their social norms to produce fruitful results, that can impact a community and soon impact a world. I know I will experience sexism on my route to pursuing an engineering degree, but I continue to tell myself "if it was easy everyone would do it," thus it’s just a game of gender and