of missing women in Canada‚ and an extremely large number of these women are Aboriginal. Why do Aboriginal women seem more vulnerable? The majority of these missing Aboriginal women were living on the streets‚ living in poverty and working in the sex trade industry before their disappearances. Why were all of these women in the same situation? I believe that the Conflict Theory explains the hardships‚ the abuse and the discrimination that each of these women faced before they went missing. The
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Speculation in June Spence’s “Missing Women” June Spence’s “Missing Women” is a story of three women’s mysterious disappearance. Indications of how the women‚ a mother‚ Kay‚ her daughter‚ Vicki‚ and her daughter’s friend‚ Adelle‚ lived their lives and may have vanished are provided throughout the story‚ but in the end‚ it appears no one had all of the details needed to provide closure to the case. The information contained in the story is obtained by a variety townspeople‚ including friends
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systematically and deliberately disadvantaged many groups/minorities over the course of its history and in particular‚ women of all social classes. The intersectionality of womanhood and examining the approaches of the Canadian labour market‚ discrimination and regulations. Canada’s labour market is segmented‚ fractured or divided in many ways. The net result is that certain groups such as women‚ visible minorities‚ and youth are more likely to be concentrated in the poorer quality jobs‚ sometimes referred
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The issue of violence against Aboriginal women is my chosen subtopic that strongly contributes to the history of Aboriginal women’s struggle for rights and identity in Canada. To search relevant newspaper articles for this topic‚ the databases that were used were Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe‚ as well as Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies. The reason these two databases were chosen was because Canadian Newsstand offered articles from multiple newspapers in the country‚ therefore providing me with diverse
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affective colonialism on aboriginal women in Canada. The histories of colonization have forced aboriginal women out of their community and family support. The violence of cultural assault or physical brutality of residential schools. It is essential to make efforts towards ending of violence against aboriginal women in Canada. The aboriginal people have grown up in poverty. Many aboriginal women run in to racism and they may shut out of labor markets. Aboriginal women turn to drug trade and sex work
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of nationalistic pride. Canada is generally an inclusive and safe country‚ however not everyone has the luxury of enjoying this level of comfort. The thought of our country ignoring the cries of violence against Indigenous women and girls‚ is downright absurd. The Canadian government has acknowledged the severity of the threats to Indigenous women and girls‚ but have no current plan in action to help these women. Indigenous women‚ especially in a respected country like Canada‚ have the right to be
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Aboriginal women in Western Canada have been faced with challenges and adversity in many aspects of their everyday lives. It is important to identify and analyze some of the reasons why there are a high proportion of Aboriginal women involved in the sex trade in Western Canada. This analysis is to further demonstrate the state and society’s implications and effects on the lives of these women‚ and how they have shaped the world that sex trade workers in Canada are forced to live in day in and day
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leave for war‚ this opened up a vast majority of jobs for women to take over since the work industry could not stop without men as the economy of Canada would become terrible. Women had to do jobs that they would normally never do‚ like working labour jobs or in factories of different kinds. Even through all the trauma and stress women were going through‚ they were being very successful with having these many job opportunities. Most women had kids that they had to watch too‚ so they weren’t just
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Violence Against Women in Canada By: Sujicaa Sivakumaran “More than 3‚300 women are forced to sleep in an emergency shelter to escape domestic violence on any given day” (Statistics Canada‚ 2011)1. Violence against women is present in many forms including domestic violence‚ rape‚ and sexual harassment. Such behaviours can stem from the idea that women deserve less social power‚ which in turn causes men to show their power and control over women in demeaning methods. This is an issue that has been
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Word count: 1‚489 Throughout history‚ women have been victims of oppression no matter what religion or background they come from. They have learned from a young age‚ that their appearance is important to fundamentally be happy in their life. The topic of oppression in woman leads to controversial discussion not only to scholars but women of all parts of the world. How a woman presents herself through appearance and clothing targets her in a society obsessed with each other’s business. In today’s
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