made large strides in educating its population of more than a billion people‚ yet a lot remains to be done. It is commonplace now that education is both intrinsically valuable and also instrumental for economic well-being‚ and this is true for individuals and entire nations. No country in the world has been able to develop without the spread of mass education. An educated population is a prerequisite for take-off into high economic growth. Table 1 in the appendix shows literacy rates for
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Harper Adams University College BSc International Business Management APD Module AC000 The gap between rich and poor in China Submitted by: 201121011202/ 12203200 For: Jordan Wendt & Sandra Turner & Yvonne Williams Date of Submission: 9th November 2012 Word count without References: 1085 The gap between rich and poor in China Contents: Summary..................................................................................................2 1. Introduction
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Gender shapes the lives of all people in all societies. The term ‘gender’ refers to the social construction of female and male identity. It can be defined as more than biological differences between men and women. It includes the ways which those differences‚ whether real or perceived‚ have been valued‚ used and relied upon to classify women and men and to assign roles and expectations to them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_and_development). Gender influences our lives‚ the schooling we receive
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decades before Ibsen’s play. By the middle of the century women were granted the same legal protection as that provided to male children. Women were permitted inheritance rights and were to be successful in petitioning for the rightbto a university education only three years after the first performance of A Doll’s House. But many of thebprotections provided to women were aimed at the lower economic classes. Employment opportunities for women were limited to low−paying domestic jobs‚ teaching‚ or clerical
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superior compare to women; the gender equality issue also shown in the governmental hierarchy by believing that men are more capable in governing a society than women. This gender equality issue also applies in getting education between men and women. Men are believed to be more worthy and capable at receiving education than women since women have been given the task to take care of the husband and family by tradition. Doing these household chores is not require much education‚ or at least that is what
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Ever since the first studies of race‚ gender‚ sexuality were performed‚ society has always tried to construct white‚ cisgender‚ heterosexual‚ men on top of some social hierarchy. In doing so‚ this has created a plethora of disadvantages for those lower in the totem pole of society‚ many of which still exist today. Although society has made many progressions in the relations between men and women‚ there are still some disparities‚ such as the wage gap. Some may argue that the reason women earn less
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The wage gap between males and females is still of the utmost controversy in today’s society. It is undoubtedly present in all facets of life that males acquire more currency than females in the workforce. This wage gap can be directly linked to stereotypical roles of females in society. In which females are accepting to be home bodies‚ submissive‚ and rely dependently on their husbands to support the family. Pay inequity in the United States can be linked back to World War II‚ in which a significant
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Regarding Gender and Leadership: ‘Why do you think that some multinationals nevertheless tend not to give serious consideration to female candidates for managerial positions in‚ for example‚ the Middle East?’ and post your discussion to this thread- Module 5. Read the answers posted by others. Leadership styles differ from one region to another. Living in India I know that there are more gender biasness in a business situation there as opposed to Canada. You will see gender biasness in a lot of
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the achievement gap is not just an African American issue and other groups are being victimized of the problem too‚ which is true. Students of all different races are experiencing the achievement gap including white students. However‚ according to “Racial and Ethnic Achievement Gaps” African Americans are experiencing the gap the most. Students start showing the gap as young as the first grade in reading and math skills. “As of 2012‚ the white-black and white-Hispanic achievement gaps were 30-40% smaller
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Man and woman are the two genders that western culture upholds. It would be difficult to define it any other way with history portraying just man and woman. The concept of binary gender has been ingrained into the western society‚ this is no question. No where is is taught that non-binary genders are recognized within this country. To imply the concept of the gender binary as the most valid form of understanding gender is to also state that the imperialistic gender construct is the only perspective
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