Women‚ HRM and Equal Opportunities DISADVANTAGES FACED BY WOMEN Women face disadvantages in countries all around the world. These include vertical and horizontal segregation‚ glass ceiling‚ pay gaps etc. Horizontal Segregation Horizontal segregation concerns the clustering of women into certain occupation categories‚ in particular the healthcare sector‚ nursing‚ teaching‚ hotels and catering and retailing. Vertical Segregation Vertical segregation on the other hand concerns the clustering
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NGO participation for women ’s empowerment in Bangladesh AbstractIn this paper‚ I tell the story of a grass-roots campaign of poor‚ rural women in the Mehrunnisa district of Chittagong province in Bangladesh. My objective is to examine how feminist activists strategically use and create social spaces to generate collective dialogue and critical reflection on issues of patriarchy and gendered violence. A related aim is to highlight the ways in which activists working at the grass-roots level theorize
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Women and Their Struggles with Life Stephanie Hernandez COM/155 March 30‚ 2013 Steven Watkins A woman struggles in our society regardless if she has a home or if she is homeless. There are often several reasons we are seeing these issues in women today. For instance they may have families to support‚ they may not have a job‚ some may have addictions‚ or there may be some with no means of financial support. These are just some of the issues surrounding women and their struggles in life. We
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liberation saw much change within the 1960s as women campaigned for equal pay for equal work within the workforce. These women came to be called "Labor Feminists" as they fought for their rights to be acknowledged within the workplace and were active members of unions. Different women’s trade unions worked to secure the rights for women within the work place and they were a critical part of the push that created the Equal Pay Act of 1963. This act made it so that women are now legally required to receive equal
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necessity to have both parents working‚ to support a family. This fact‚ along with the improvement of females having independence‚ is the cause of the ever growing number of working women. These‚ along with many other statistics are showing the rapid improvement and change that woman and families are showing. Year after year we can see the dynamics of the family shifting. It is not the same anymore‚ that women are the housewives doing all the housework and childcare. However women still have to work to
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men and women (young and old) on the streets to draw attention of the law enforcing agencies and the government machinery that such incidents will not be tolerated and rapists be accorded death penalty due to the gravity of the crime. Accordingly revision in the anti-rape bill is in the offing‚ with stricter punishment for the rapists‚ including capital punishment. This means when we are together‚ we can achieve greater things‚ including respect and empowerment of women. Had it been only women groups
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------------------------------------------------- Social issue From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia "Social problems" redirects here. For the journal‚ see Social Problems (journal). | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This article needs attention from an expert in Sociology. The specific problem is: may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia ’s quality standards. (March 2013) | This article ’s tone or style may not reflect the
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distinguishable one from the other‚ they share many ontological and epistemological assumptions. Whether a “feminine” and/or “feminist” thinker is celebrating or critiquing the virtue of care‚ s/he will tend to believe that the self is an interdependent being rather than an atomistic entity. S/he will also tend to believe that knowledge is "emotional" as well as "rational" and that thoughtful persons reflect on concrete particularities as well as abstract universals. This is certainly true of Carol Gilligan
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FACTORS THAT WILL DETERMINE THE DEMAND FOR HOTELS IN THE UK Hotels play a big role in the hospitality industry‚ they provide not only a place to stay and eat for travellers but also a good quality of service which is sometimes compromised by some hotels due to other factors. As the number of traveller increases every year‚ thus the demand for accommodation increases. We will be looking on the Microeconomic Environment of hotels in United Kingdom and determine different factors that affect consumer
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urbanisation can represent the level of urban relative to overall population‚ or it can represent the rate at which the urban proportion is increasing. Urbanisation is not merely a modern phenomenon‚ but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale‚ whereby predominantly village culture is being rapidly replaced by predominantly urban culture. The last major change in settlement patterns was the accumulation of hunter-gatherers into villages many thousand years ago. Village
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