Global Gender Gap Report

Sexism and Gender Discrimination a Significant Problem in Canada? Article Summary In the article, “Women in Harperland: A Critical Look at Gender Inequality in Canada Since 2006”, Brianna Strumm takes an in-depth look at gender prejudice throughout Canada since Stephen Harper, past Conservative Prime Minister was elected into Canada’s government in 2006. The Author expresses her concern by distinctively listing the many lacks of Harpers involvement in gender inequality through the wage gap,…

Americans to have access to free community college we can allow this to happen. If the college educated working professionals of our nation understands the benefits and vote for free community college, it would allow the nation to stay competitive in the global economy and pass policy to support equality within education. While there is often a debate if a free higher education will actually benefit our nation, the evidence shows us free education is both beneficial to the individual and the…

Malala Yousafzai, according to her biography on Biography.com, born July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, became an advocate for girls’ education as a young girl, after the Taliban began attacking girls’ schools in her county in 2008. When she was 14, the Taliban issued a death threat against her. Her and her family initially felt that the fundamentalist group would not actually harm a child. However, on October 9, 2012, a man boarded the bus Malala was riding on her way home from…

In 2005, three influential reports entitled Innovate America, Tapping America’s Potential, and Rising Above the Gathering Storm were released within a five month period to the public. These articles argue that the education system at the time was leading to a decline in the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related jobs. These jobs are widely believed to be the future of the United States of America, and the driving force of innovation worldwide. Many important…

Two-third of the states had a women in congress since this report in 2008. Many women are running for city council, major, and for state representative. Women in politics represent less than a quarter of office holders, even with the women making up most of the population, men still exceed women in government office…

This essay will attempt to provide an explicitly normative approach to Social Exclusion from a sociological perspective, while discussing a theoretical approach that assists with the analysis of it. It will likewise evaluate the processes of social fragmentation and exclusion along with evaluating the positive and negative effects this has on individuals and society as a whole. The term social exclusion initially emerged from the social policy market, nevertheless it is difficult to discover an…

expected of females in America and English societies of that time. The common western ideas of Japanese women are obedient, shy, and have no ideas of their own. This is an issue because it shows gender discrimination on men who expect these gender roles in today’s society for all women. Most of the gender roles expected by women can be traced back to a certain religion of that country. Like China and Korea, Confucian religion shaped Japanese society and made women’s roles negligible. “Japan…

which is harmful for human species. It is Female Feticide. After the globalization, the practice of the killing of female fetus could be found in almost all the parts of the Country. There are many reasons behind such gruesome practice. We are facing gender inequality; killing of girl child in a large scale is the main reason for it. The causes or responsible factors for female feticide and how our government is dealing with this huge demerit of our society are debatable. But the main question…

biotechnologies and GMOs solve global nutrition challenges? A more accurate term may be transgenic’—any organism whose genetic makeup has been altered by adding genetic material from another, unrelated organism. This, too, has its own exceptions with altered and synthesized genes. Genetically modified…

beautiful pieces of moving art that bring people together, regardless of gender, age, or skin color. The vast majority of these masterpieces just happen to be made by straight, white, rich, males over the age of forty. Hollywood’s diversity problem is allowing for an unbalanced ratio of women in the industry, as well as inaccurate minority representation, and the use of white actors for a racially ambiguous role. The gender discrepancy in the film industry, to no one person's surprise,…