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- 1581: Female Dominance or Male Failure?
- ... seeming as if they replicate one another like a clone. I believe Thurber views all female species as being similar to one another with respect to their character. The author also associates courtship as a business, a show business. A world which is chaotic, disorderly and full of confusion much like nature. It is an aggressive competition between genders in which mother nature dominates. He also attributes the similarity of constructed rules and regulations ...
- 1582: Gays: A Struggle for Acceptance
- ... event which sparked a movement. The Stonewall riots have developed into the stuff of myth, about which many of the most commonly held beliefs are probably untrue. In 1969, it was illegal to operate any business catering to homosexuals in New York City-as it still is, today in 1991, in many places in the United States and elsewhere. The standard procedure was for the New York City police to raid such establishments on a semi-regular basis, to arrest a few of the most obvious 'types' and to fine the owners prior to letting business continue as usual by the next evening. It has been suggested that the majority of the patrons at the Stonewall Inn were black and Hispanic drag queens, but perhaps the goddess has always valued these ...
- 1583: The Modern Men's Movement
- ... Movement The 1970's saw the intensification of the feminist movement as a social, moral, and political force in the American arena. They focused their attention on the systematic oppression of women in politics and business. They were attacking male chauvinism, dominance, and a social system that relegated females to household duties. By most standards, the feminist movement has been successful in nearly all of its endeavors. The result, however, has left the American male uncertain of his own role in not only the dating arena, but the business, marriage, and society in general. All the things that once made a man desirable now make him the enemy of the advancement of women. The result has been a reactionary Male movement. Though not as ...
- 1584: Sex Discrimination
- ... figure had raised to 32% managers/administrators and 40% professionals. On the other hand women seem to fall into different sectors to men, they make up 62% of teachers and librianship but only 25% of business and financial professionals and shockingly only 5% of engineers and technologists. Teaching is a qualified position, 90% of primary school teachers and 60% of secondary teachers are women but 50% primary and 80% secondary school ... number of woman students at university has tripled in the last 21 years which is almost twice the increase for male, making up 48% of the student population. At degree level 46-48% of medicine/business and financial students are women but only 12% take engineering or technology. These men / woman dominated areas are clearly seen, simply by looking in classrooms at secondary or university education. 91% of sociology classes are ...
- 1585: Executive Women: Substance Plus Style
- ... female managers" and that these differences have been used to keep women out of managerial positions. Furthermore, it suggests that it has now become "fashionable" to state that these differences are favorable and complement the business environment. Lastly, the article focused on several strategies that women should follow in order to succeed as a middle or upper level manager within a large corporation. The authors refute the notion that the differences ... constitutes the other half of the population of our society. It would be interesting to see the outcome of an experimental study that observed how role reversal training could possibly affect the attitudes of male business leaders. References 1. Morrison, A.R., White, R.P., Van Elsor, E. (1987 August). Executive Women: Substance Plus Style. Psychology Today, 18-26.
- 1586: Gender Roles
- ... sad history of prohibitions on women's learning is too well known to be recorded here. . . In much of the world women are barred from advanced knowledge and technical training Yet opening the world of business with new opportunities for women does not dissipate much of this frustration because both men and women continue to be ruled by their early training, by the acculturation process which decides for them what sort ... bow constitutes only 10 percent of families. The role for women has expanded with more women in the workplace and with a variety of family structures with new roles for all members of the family. Business has been slow to change and to acknowledge the new family, and for all the complaints about the women's movement as anti-family, the movement has instead followed the trend of placing the family ...
- 1587: Welfare Reform: A Matter of Justice
- ... holdings by their own labor, without violating the rights of others, then this holding is just. It is each persons responsibility to work to support themselves and their families. Next is the idea behind transacting business, or Justice in Transfer. This principal states that if a person gives something of their own free will, then this holding is also just. These are the only fair, reasonable, just ways for a person ... Everyone should have an equal chance of getting to any position within reason. He also states that wealth should be distributed to everyone based on their contributions. The owner who puts up capital for the business, the manager who has the knowledge to make the product, and the laborer who puts in the hard work and effort are all entitled to their own portion of the wealth that has been created ...
- 1588: Morality
- ... One way that I have succeeded throughout my career is by knowing and being friends with a lot of people. The practical side of life is based on interpersonal relationships. Whether it be social or business, communicating with people is the only way to get things done. There is no way that you can go through life in today's society without getting along with people. If people think that you ... time that you have done the same thing. You may say, "Who cares!" I'm here to tell you that one day you might care. Let me give you and example. After I completed a business venture that made me over one million dollars, I learned that the only reason I received the job was because the man I was competing against had cheated on his wife. Well, the company offering ...
- 1589: Hollywood's Attack on Religion
- ... be associated with these historical figures. This is supported by past experiences when movies were edited so as to not offend animal rights activists, gay advocacy groups, and ethnic organizations: Leaders of the motion picture business showed more concern with possible sacrilege against the religious traditions of a single Hopi village than with certain offense to the faith of tens of millions of believing Christians; the prospect of being labeled "antiwolf ... years in which Hollywood has attacked religion. In the past, leaders of the film industry "understood the importance of honoring the faith of their patrons. For them, it was not only a matter of good business, but an element of good citizenship'" (51). Films such as Going My Way, Angels with Dirty Faces, and Boys Town, portrayed religious characters "in a sympathetic light" (51). But in the last 15 years or ...
- 1590: Society's Restraint to Social Reform
- ... seems to stimulate much debate and emotion. Along with the notions of self-sufficiency, employability enhancement, and work disincentives, it is the concept of workfare that causes the most tension between it's government and business supporters and it's anti-poverty and social justice critics. In actuality, workfare is a contraction of the concept of "working for welfare" which basically refers to the requirement that recipients perform unpaid work as ... overall failure of workfare programs to reduce welfare expenditures, reduce poverty, and move people into adequate and permanent jobs, workfare should not even be discussed as a viable social reform option today. Politicians and the business establishment only call for workfare because it helps to protect their privileged positions in our society. Workfare serves to preserve the status quo by: i. creating the illusion that politicians are actually doing something meaningful ...
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