Equal opportunity

In her essay about the Glass Ceiling Effect, Anne Gibson discusses the needed improvement in attitudes toward women in the work force. She presents different aspects of treatment towards them that need changed. It was a very interesting essay to read. Although grammar and explanations could be refined, I got the impression that even though some improvement is being made towards eliminating this effect, more needs to be done. The author bases her argument on the premise that women deserve to be…

What is the pay gap? In your answer, be sure to define equal pay and comparable worth. Describe three main reasons for the pay gap and provide ways that we (as individuals or as a society) could lessen the pay gap. Women have struggled to find themselves on an equal playing field with men in the professional world for many years, not to mention before they were even in it. In this day and age, women find themselves…

The Effects of Closing the Wage Gap Women have always been working even if their jobs and work went unnoticed. Since women joined the workforce their work has always been undervalued. When working for wages in the revolutionary era, the jobs they did were considered unskilled labor that required no particular education or training. It was also believed that women were not working to support a family since that was what the man was for, they were just working for extra spending money so their…

reading different articles on “ The Eagle Forum “ and “ The Feminist Majoring Foundation” website about women and their role in society past and presents, one can generalized that these websites hold different views and understanding on equal pay, rape, and abortion. Equal pay, this has been a long lasting battle for…

laws. However, recent Supreme Court rulings and laws passed show a lack of generality. In Rostker v. Goldberg in 1981, the drafting of only men and not women was deemed constitutional (Brodsky). However, this clearly defies the idea that everyone is equal and puts into place a law that clearly discriminates based on the gender of a person. A similar case that defended an unjust law was Nguyen V. INS, in which Section 309 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which allows for stricter…

and opponents and the Equal Rights Amendment was no different. The main supporter of the amendment was the National Woman 's Party backed by feminists and professional women such as Amelia Earhart. Organized groups such as National Organization for Women and ERAmerica along with a coalition of nearly eighty other mainstream organizations helped push the amendment through the ratification process. National Organization of Women was a compelling advocate claiming, “[the Equal Rights Amendment] is…

Another reason why the Equal Rights Amendment needs to be ratified is because there is no other amendment that is as specific with gender rights. The ERA has a greater explanation of gender rights and would have it’s own process for handling situations of sex discrimination. The ERA would also help support inadequacies that federal and state courts have, especially in cases of sex discrimination. In January of 2011, Court Justice Antonin Scalia declared that the 14th Amendment does not protect…

Feminists believed this amendment would ensure women’s full equality in the eyes of the law” (Women’s Rights Movement by Jennifer Joline Anderson, page 75-76). Although Alice Paul hoped that the ERA would cut out all sexism, the amendment has received much criticism from civilians, business owners, and world leaders. Over 100 newspapers, websites, and articles are devoted to showing the bad effects of the ERA. This goes to show how much sexism is needed to be cut from society, as protesting a…

that I took note of as I’m reading Created Equal. The fact that this was written 30 years ago and the fact that Friedman believed they were fighting against the tide of history. From this, I think that Milton Friedman tried to define equality and liberty in his own way by relating it to certain situations. He then also discusses the three different ways in which humans are considered equal and these categories are equality before God, equality of opportunity, and equality of outcome. “Life is…

Independence “it introduced the radical concept that “all men were created equal” in terms of their God-given right to maintain government of their own choosing”. (Tindall and Shi, 2013) Although, this concept meant different things to different people; the saying "all men are created equal" was not really what happened. What the group was truly trying to state was "all free, white, property-owning males are created equal". The document went on to define the rights as life, liberty and the…