The Gap

Running Head: Economically Oppressed: How the Wage Gap is Effecting Men and Women. Economically Oppressed: How the Wage Gap is Effecting Men and Women. Ellyssa Smith Western Michigan University Running Head: Economically Oppressed: How the Wage Gap is Effecting Men and Women. Gender issues affect all areas of life for men and women. One of the areas greatly affected is the area of economics and the work force. Women have been receiving lower pay for equal work for decades and…

explanations and a lot of question marks as we progress, because the basics that should be second nature to us at this point, have not been fully comprehended, leading to “gaps” in their learning. I remember going through a similar experience growing up, and I’m sure I wasn’t the only one. However, there are many ways that these fundamental gaps can be filled, starting with eliminating a lot of the “passing pressure” and allowing people to do their absolute…

The lack of education is impacting crime rates. In the article The Achievement Gap and the Discipline Gap by Anne Gregory, she describes how unfair punishment in school leads to adolescents giving up and causing crime. Also in the article Testing Social Disorganization Theory by Taner Cam, he describes how dropout rates lead to crime too, due to their opportunities being shortened. Lastly, in the article Substance Involvement and the Trajectory of Criminal Offending in Young Males by John Welte,…

No one can disagree with the fact that there are gaps in psychiatry, however, how one looks at it is where things might differ from study to study as well as how ethical Rosenhan was in his study. We studied how Rosenhan went about his study sending a group of his friends, to be admitted to a psych ward, having previously had no signs of mental illness and held what most would consider prestigious jobs. The second piece we will be looking at is called Mike’s Musings, in this piece we will look…

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby is a fantasy book about perspective. A main topic in the book is the difference between looking and seeing. It includes imagery of fantasy, different views of self-image, and the heavy burden that beauty can be and the detrimental ways we look at and treat women. It can be dreadfully tense and there is this feeling of anxiety that runs throughout the novel. The book is romantic when it needed, empowering where it counts, and is simply beautiful in its telling. A quality…

The individual-level explanations for labor market disparities state that “the earnings gap is due to individual human capital differences” (Golash-Boza 252). For instance, if black men hold a higher degree of education, then black men are assumed to have higher incomes than less educated white men. Yet, this is not the case in real world. According to Golash-Boza, “in 2000, 32 percent of white men had completed college, compared with only 18 percent of black men” (Golash-Boza 252), and this…

demonstrated repugnance against their bigotry. Regardless of these attempted endeavors, controversies revolving around modern wage gaps form the question, “Why do they still exist?” The truth is, although there are factors that contribute to both racial and gender wage gaps, all men and women alike deserve the same pay as men and are not given this right due to prejudice. The wage gap between Caucasian men and women has decreased over time, but still endures. Studies have shown that women…

am specifically interested in the literature that addresses what causes the gender gap and race gap for Black men in rural education. There is not a policy that is gender or race specific for Black males in order to close this gap; although some researchers and practitioners might argue that Brown v. Board, Common Core, and No Child Left Behind are rulings and policies that address the gap. However, the gender gap still exists, which proves that these policies might have impacted some…

This paper summarizes the Gap analysis for U.S Customs and Border Protection Agency, one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States Department of Homeland Security. Currently, there exists a gap in the managing disasters and particularly emergency issues, terror, and support for the border employees. This gap analysis will analyze the discrepancy that exists between the organization’s current emergency response and their targeted status in the future. It is an important…

the workplace today is the clear and by far wage gap between male and female employees. Do men carry a clear advantage to allow them to be paid higher or do women carry faults to prevent them from making the same as their male counterparts? Not only does the wage gap affect women within the work place but also their ability to obtain jobs as well as their vertical mobility the workplace is severely…