INTRODUCTION There are various feminist critiques of the welfare state. They all exist to examine and develop their critiques on the individual welfare services ¡V health‚ housing‚ education‚ social security and the personal services. The aim of this paper is to examine the various feminist critiques and thus to decide which perspectives are effective in analyzing the gender inequality in Hong Kong. This paper is divided into three parts. The first part will discuss the different theoretical and
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Bridging the Gender Inequality Gap Despite the implementation of global policies and projects to address gender inequality in the developing world‚ women continue to lag behind men in virtually all aspects of development. In Africa‚ women are responsible for 75% of all the agricultural work as well as 60 to 80 percent of the production and marketing of the resulting foodstuff‚ yet the earn only 10 percent of the total revenue and own less than 1 percent of the land (Pages 86 – 87‚ International
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This essay will explain domestic violence in terms what who commits domestic violence and why. This will be achieved by exploring conflicting and competing theoretical interpretation of domestic violence‚ such as‚ Radical Feminism‚ Individual theories‚ Family Violence and Intersectionality approach. The use of these theories are important in answering the question because they look at specific interpretation of why domestic violence occurs‚ for example‚ premeditated or learnt behaviour and so on
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Lauren Bender Gender Inequality in the Workplace Not a single state in the United States has equal compensation for men and women in the workplace. In fact‚ the state with the most equal annual earnings between men and women is Washington D.C. which is still a 9% difference. The reasons as to why women do not make the same as men vary. For one‚ women naturally tend to go to the caregiving jobs because of the motherly instinct and those jobs generally do not pay very well. Second‚ employers can
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Many feminist argue that patriarchy is the root of gender inequalities in the world. There are many formal definition of the term “patriarchy”‚ in general‚ patriarchy is a social construct in which masculine qualities are valued more than feminine qualities. Traditionally‚ patriarchy is explained in terms of the household. That is‚ a woman is limited to the household tasks‚ and her husband is the head of the house who determines how much freedom the wife has within the house. In this paper I argue
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The cognitive theory of gender: Focuses on thinking behind gender development. Need to look at mental processing. Two theories: -Kohlberg’s cognitive development theory. -Gender schema theory. Cognitive Approach: Considers development of thought patterns and cognitions. Childs perception of gender is crucial for acquisition of gender. Series of developmental steps or stages that a child goes through before their perception of gender is fully developed. Kohlberg’s cognitive development
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Gender Inequality is a characteristics of social structure‚ according to which different social groups (in this case – men and women) possess stable differences and resulting from these unequal opportunities in society‚ there was realized by researchers in social sciences and humanities through the notion of gender in 1980‚ as the basis for feminist concept (Joan Scott). Conceptualizing gender shed light on the social construction of masculinity and femininity as oppositional categories with unequal
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Over-exaggerated in the size and scope‚ the social and political response resulted in racial inequalities disproportionately impacting African American and Hispanic populations. Racial disparities existed in the construction of the myth‚ where crack use though less occurring among pregnant women‚ was the most publicized and embattled illicit drug in
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there were many events that took place prior to the 1960s‚ the 1960s was the time that those violent and nonviolent protest for civil rights‚ equality‚ and freedom went global because blacks had had access televisions and radios to experience the inequality in their society especially in the southern states such as Alabama and Mississippi. Many southern states did not see African Americans as human and if so‚ blacks still did not get equal rights. It was the time that many African Americans reached
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have long desired. We should end gender inequality‚ exemplified through society’s assumed role for women throughout history‚ by taking action against gender inequality. Living with three sisters for the majority of my life‚ I witnessed how their gender affected how they were expected to behave and think.
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