When I was fifteen‚ I read a book titled I am Malala. This book is about a young Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban on her way to school. The story of Malala opened my eyes to the very different in which we live. One of my favorite quotes from I am Malala is‚ “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” To me‚ this quote shows a cry for help from middle-eastern women. It made me start thinking about all girls in the middle-east and how their lives compare to mine.
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THE GENDER WAGE GAP IN THE UNITED STATES Name: Alejandra Aguilera Date: Teacher’s Name: Subject: Language B Word count: 1186 THE GENDER WAGE GAP IN THE UNITED STATES Introduction Today’s society continues to argue about the subject of social inequalities even in cosmopolitan and first world countries like United States. Gender inequality is a subject that have been forgotten eventually since the women civil rights movement developed and they started gaining an
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and in gender. It’s no surprise that even to this day men are still at a higher level than women. It is a fact that women are paid less than men by a vast amount. During the American Revolution women were mostly at home serving as house maids while men did work labor and brought home the money. In the year 1970‚ white men were paid 100 percent of their earnings while white women got paid 58.7 percent‚ there is no denying the difference in the wage gap between genders. In addition‚ the wage gap didn’t
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Another research about women wage gap is conducted by Kidd and Shannon (2002) in Australia. This research tries to project the future gender wage gap in 2031 by using income distribution survey in 1996 and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) demographic projections (Kidd & Shannon‚ 2002). The result shows that even though there are a significant number of women in the workforce‚ the gender wage gap will not change considerably in 2031 (Kidd & Shannon‚ 2002). Moreover‚ despite women achievement
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The Gender pay gap Historically‚ gender inequality has always been a phenomenon embedded in our cultural infrastructure and today it still exists in our society in the subtle form of Pay Gap‚ a social issue that exposes income discrepancy between men and women. There are multiple causes to this difference of wage and the measure of pay gap fluctuates greatly based on demographics and economic status. Pay gap affects us in various ways in terms of job selectivity‚ economic functionality‚ and gender
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I Am Sam In this movie‚ Sam Dawson‚ is a developmentally disabled adult who has been raising his daughter Lucy for seven years. He receives help in raising Lucy from a group of friends that also have developmental disabilities. Although Sam provides a loving and structured environment for Lucy‚ her intellectual development begins to surpass her fathers. Because Lucy’s school reported their findings of Lucy’s developmental progress possibly being altered by Sam’s disability‚ Lucy was taken
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my actuality. They only see the level one part of me‚ the way I behave‚ and more often than not‚ they see the reserved‚ self-restrictive‚ and industrious personality I carry daily. If they perceive me only for my level one personality‚ they completely miss the deep level three part of me‚ the never-ending well‚ the reef‚ the reality of who I am‚ the very values‚ experiences‚ fears‚ and virtues that actually constitute me for who I am. Did you know that only thirty percent of Earth’s surface is land
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us. In Kurt Vonnegut’s short story‚ “Who Am I This Time?”‚ we see through the experiences of Helene Shaw that by shutting ourselves off from others around us we can miss out on some of the most important things in life. Many things are important to us‚ one of these is being accepted by our society. We all hate to be the outsider or the new kid‚ because we feel alone and secluded . In “Who Am I This Time?”‚ Helene Shaw’s job kept her moving to a different
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a movie about a girl‚ who in a low point in her life‚ finds a letter in a wall while aboard in Italy. This letter was written years earlier and shocked the girl‚ played by Amanda Seyfried‚ to her very core. This letter ends up bringing her on a journey where she finds happiness. My story is much like this one‚ except it takes place on college move in day‚ the letter was from my mom‚ and I found it while she was still in my room. Other than these few differences Amanda and I go on very similar journeys—minus
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References: Ceci‚ S. J.‚ Ginther‚ D. K.‚ Kahn‚ S. S.‚ & Williams‚ W. (2014). Women in academic science: Explaining the gap. Psychological Science in the Public Interest. doi: 10.1177/1529100614541236 Huge‚ M.‚ Glynn‚ C.‚ & Knobloch-Westerwick‚ S. (2013) The matilda effect in science communication: An experiment on gender bias in publication quality perceptions and collaboration interest. Science Communication. 35(5) 603-625. doi: 10.1177/1075547012472684 Jackson‚ S. M.‚ Hillard‚ A. L.‚ & Schneider
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