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working full time in the United States typically were paid just 79 percent of what men were paid, a gap of 21 percent? The gap has narrowed since the 1970s, due largely to women’s progress in education and workforce participation and to men’s wages rising at a slower rate. But progress has stalled in recent years, and the pay gap does not appear likely to go away on its own” (Hill, Catherine). The pay gap is far more difficult. This is based off of age, color and gender. Among full-time workers…

Efficiency Gap Analysis Efficiency gap analysis spans around the inability of the doctors to utilize the available resources and time to offer services to the patients. As shown in the timeliness gap analysis, delays in providing treatment are attributable to stress and depression. Absenteeism, as indicated by the British Medical Association (2015), is caused by stress and depression in the consultation rooms and wards, and this impacts negatively on the utility of the hospital resources. A…

income inequality indicates that gender income inequality has a negative impact on the society. Building up on the points mentioned earlier, this part of the research will try to highlight the impact of gender pay gap in the society and suggest alternative solutions. Gender pay gap causes discrimination based on gender. Every year, thousands of genders based discrimination cases are brought before the Federal Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC, 2015). This figure clearly shows the prevalence…

unemployment rate among black Americans is roughly twice that of whites, and black people earn, on average, between twelve and twenty-two percent less than white people with similar education and experience. The wealth gap between black and white Americans is much bigger than the income gap, thanks to institutionalized discrimination, persistent racism, and policies that amplify inequality. This has been a steady issue for the past couple centuries, and is…

The gap between the rich and poor has been a problem since the late 20th century, but has become an even greater issue in the past couple of years. Currently, the top 1% of the richest people in the world own about 48 percent of the world’s capital. Economists predict that by the year of 2016, the top 1 percent will own more that the rest of the remaining 99 percent combined combined (Karimi). As an effort to reduce this enormous gap, some states have taken the initiative to impose a minimum…

Gap Year: Should we accept or decline the offer? Over the past couple of years there has been quite a debate on whether or not graduating high school students should take a gap year before attending college. Recently in the headlines Malia Obama, Barack Obama 's Daughter, announced that she will be taking a gap year and then following her gap year will be attending the very prestigious Harvard University. This is causing a big frenzy in the media because Malia Obama is one of the most…

take some time off to make some money and think about her career options. To her, taking a gap year was the perfect plan. She used the time to job shadow, and worked in a preschool and in retail. The year off allowed her to become certain of her career goals of becoming a higher education counselor. Kahut claims the focus she gained helped not only her, but her future students, as well. This idea of a gap year is fairly new to those in the United States. High school students are often pushed to…

Gap studies have been part of the social legal studies since the early 1960’s and 70’s. The early Gap studies suggest that law is rational and looks at law as one fixed discourse, which governs everything effectively. Classical Gap study states that there is a gap between laws in action versus law in books; this is a theory that arises from legal realists. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was one of the legal realists who believed that the focus should be on law in action and not just on the law in…

to the gender wage-gap. They collected data from National Longitudinal Study of Youth and compared the change in the wage-gap between 1985 and 1990 with that of the period between 1989 and 1994. Using a decomposition strategy, Gill and Leigh (2000) manage to divide their data into observable effects and unobservable effects on the wage-gap. In the beginning of their paper, they note how most literature tends to use the broad “some college” category when analyzing the wage-gap. Ultimately their…

opportunity to look at their approach to systematically improving health and reducing health disparities (Freudenberg & Ruglis, 2007). Public health professionals should make reducing high school dropout rates a public health priority. The disparities gaps in health outcomes are expanding. There needs to be a more targeted approach…