Equality
In 1890, less then one half of one percent of women were employed gainfully outside of the home. Over the next hundred years, women have not only gained access to jobs outside of the home, but also fought for equality in the work place. These struggles have not been easy by any means. Women have overcome many obstacles in there journey into the work force, none grater then the views of their male piers. Many males thought and continue to think that there is no place for women in the work place. Women made there strides into the work force by not only following examples of their courageous pioneers, but also by banding together to show their strength.
During the mid 1800's a small number of women begin their assault on, what were at the time considered, male-only jobs. Fields such as teaching, preaching, medicine, and law were all jobs domenated by men. Women had made some progress in the work force before the 1850's. In the mid nineteenth century women were the majority for grade school teachers, up from the ten percent of elementary teachers, that were teachers in the colonial period. This can be largely attributed not to the fact that men were more accepting of the idea that women belonged in the work place, but rather men were drown to the higher paying and more socially appreciated managerial jobs brought on by the industrial revolution. School boards did not mind these talented leaving because they could higher a "less qualified women" for as low as one fifth of males salary for the same job.
Susan B. Anthony was the first women to publicly speak out against this gross injustice towards women. After being fired to "replace a male teacher fired for incompetence,she was paid one third of the salary he had received,"(Reifert 74)she went to the state teachers convention of 1853 to register a protest. After being hushed once and a half hour of debate she was finally allowed to speak her peace. Although nothing became of her first encounter with the women's movement, she quit teaching and went on to become one of the great leaders of the women's movement.
Antoinette Brown was anther women that was not happy with the status quo of women in society. She started, in 1846, by attending Oberlin college, which only nine years before had become the first co-educational college.
Oberlin, although being very receptive of women in their women's department, they did not let women take any courses besides the ones offered in the women department. This lead to a conflict when Brown made her intentions of obtaining
The roles that men and women were expected to live up to would be called oppressive and offensive by today’s standards, but it was a very different world than the one we have become accustomed to in our time.
women faced many issues. They were seen as inferior to man. They did not have many
There was a time (not so long ago) when a man's superiority and authority wasn't a question, but an accepted truth. In the two short stories, "Desiree's Baby", and "The Yellow Wallpaper", women are portrayed as weak creatures of vanity with shallow or absent personalities, who are dependent on men for their livelihood, and even their sanity. Without men, these women were absolutely helpless and useless. Their very existence hinged on absolute and unquestioning submission…alone, a woman is nothing.
men have been thought to be superior to women. Not until 1920 did women get the right to vote.
Early feminists gained the right to vote, but were silenced when it came to being a homemaker. Women didn't have the drive because what was the point in trying? During the war, women went and got jobs to replace men and enjoyed their newfound careers. After the war, women were told to go back to their homes, but many didn't want to and felt very sad to go back. Powerful pieces of literature were posted during this time and gave women courage. Betty Friedan gave voice to second wave feminists by writing her book “The Feminine Mystique.” She found inspiration throughout her early life and careers. Betty created the National Organization for Women. A place where woman can educate each other on feminism. Betty was a high esteem journalist but
their own lives. This led many women to believe that they were not normal, so when the idea
Pay equity programs attempt to address the undervaluation for work traditionally or historically done by women. Pay equity (also referred to as “comparable worth”) programs require a gender-neutral analysis of comparative work. A variety of very different jobs are compared based on a composite of the skill, effort and responsibility of a job and the conditions under which the job is generally done. The comparison determines the relative worth of those jobs to the achievement of a firm’s objectives, under the proposition that equal contribution merits equal compensation. Where female-dominated jobs in the workplace are found to be of equal or comparable value to male-dominated jobs but paid below the level of the male jobs or payline, then all employees in those female-dominated jobs are entitled to receive pay equity adjustments.
Once these conditions are identified it is important to employ those strategies which will help the organization reach its desired goals also which will in turn help to achieve self-efficacy in employees. The process of empowerment can be structured into 5 stages including psychological state of empowering experience. The first stage involves identifying the conditions within the organization where empowerment is required. In the second stage strategies according to the need is formulated by the managers. The employment of these strategies is aimed not only at removing some of the external conditions responsible for powerlessness, but also at providing subordinates with self-efficacy information in third stage. After getting these information the employees feel empowered in stage four. The behavioral effects of empowerment are noticed in the fifth stage. Empowerment processes may allow leaders to lessen the emotional impact of demoralizing organizational changes or to mobilize organizational members in the face of difficult competitive challenges. These processes may enable leaders to set higher performance goals, and they may help employees to accept these goals. Empowerment practices also may be useful in motivating subordinates to persist despite difficult organizational environmental
It is important to realize that even though it is the 21st century, United States of America is not a post-racial society. A post-racial society is considered to be “a society free from racial prejudice, discrimination, and oppression” (Adams et al., 57). The reason I state that it is not post-racial is because racism, discrimination, prejudices, and oppression occurs every day. Although racism and discrimination does not have as much public support as it once did, it is still evident. Since there is not as much public tolerance for either issues, people may hide their racist or discriminatory beliefs. Also, discrimination and racism is not as candid as it once was on mass media, but there are still subtle hints of both.
I just cannot believe it is almost Christmas time already. I could not be more ecstatic! Christmas is the best holiday for me and my family. My husband has three children Christian, Ethan, and Kayla. All three of the children live with us, as the biological mother is not involved. I raise them just like they are my own. Christian is the oldest child, and Kayla is the youngest child in the family. Christmas has always been a huge deal in my family, with the tree, the lights, and the music. We enjoy listening to Christmas music while engaging in the Christmas spirit. For us, the three most cherished joys of Christmas are putting up the tall luscious green Christmas tree, driving through the beaming display of Christmas lights, and the best part
If America wants to be free of racism, we must continuously work towards unification. America must also acknowledge the issues within our political, social, and economic structure. America society needs to work to unlearn, the hate and to live in harmony. Every citizen of America deserves equal opportunity. No one person really has a complete the answer to how to end discrimination, because of the complexity of the matter. Reformation is necessary because our current system has been unsuccessful in ending racial discrimination. Rewriting our governing document is part of the problem, but even after we rewrite those documents, traces of racial discrimination lie within the minds of society. To reform we must start with the population a try to rewire racist and prejudice mindsets that have been marketed into social norms. To do this we must focus on unification instead of partition. In The Survival of Racism Under the Constitution by Juan Williams he states, “stereotypes produce attitudes that lead to human actions”. This statement is extremely relevant because it acknowledges the power of words and how they affect how we view the world. Stereotypes feed off of the differences within American society, these differences may they be political, social, or economic. In order to subdue stereotypes, we must change our focus from the differences with society, and look for ways to promote equality. If America, can get to a place
Racism has still not ended there is still racism in the world. Even today people with different race do not get along with each other, racism has even affected schools with segregation with this colleges created a policy called Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action means where only the same race can go to college. Affirmative action has been through a lot colleges like Stanford and Texas University. Many Students were morose because they did not get accepted to the college that they wanted because of affirmative action policy. This is chaotic because the world is not changing with the segregation they are separating race in schools to this is sad and it should not be allowed. Affirmative Action is no longer needed because it should depend on merit, encourages people seek easy access, everybody should have equal opportunities.
Females have always been considered a minority group despite outnumbering males. Gerda Lerner learned in her research that
Once I moved to the middle school and just like any girl at that age, I start listen to my opinion only and don’t care to what my family tell. I lost the wish and ability to study for no reason or just because I thought am smart enough to get high scores without study!! I was thinking of everything in the world, fashion, songs, nail polish everything except Interest in school. Inside me,
Empowerment has been shown to have a significant impact on a company’s bottom line, their employees and their customers who have a greater sense of satisfaction with the services and products that they receive. It is for these reasons that I assert that employee empowerment is a positive agent for change. Wouldn’t it be inspiring to see all organizations embrace and achieve employee