Women's Rights Reports Samples For Students

Challenge and Change in Society

Gender Equality

There has been a variety of approaches to gender equality and schooling in Canada for several years. This has resulted in coming up with organizations that are sufficiently playing the role of ensuring that gender imbalance is regulated between men and women of Canada. Through feminine research a significant effect has been realized in education policy makers. Many women however, have been found to get involved in education as their profession. Equality of gender in education has been a struggle since 1960 where education was identified as a main central policy to be embraced by both men and women.

It has ...

Essay Report

In the essay "Empowering Women: Rebuilding Society: The Role of the Foreign Service in Promoting Women's Rights in Afghanistan," Eva Lam denotes what the US Foreign Service does in order to make sure that Afghan women are no longer oppressed because of their gender. Despite concerns of imperialism and unwanted interference in the religious culture of another, the initiatives that are being exercised by the Foreign Office do indeed promote women's rights in Afghanistan, and are ultimately the best thing to do.

The programs of the Foreign Office are comprehensive, helpful and pervasive in helping women exert power they ...

LITERATURE REVIEW – GENDER EQUALITY IN

Literature Review – Gender Equality in
Corporate America
Literature reveals the ongoing issue of gender equality in corporate America remains problematic for women. The importance of this issue aligns to implications of the continued lack of social progress taking place in American business among other areas and represents the backward view society continues practicing in general. Gender is the specific issue of inequality among the female population in the corporate America but unfortunately again, as statistics found in literature from studies of inequalities of diversity compounds the situation connecting to hiring practices. This institutionalization of such illegal ideas leads to ...

Politics maily rely on the element of power. An individual or a group of people must acquire a control over the rest since he, or she has the power over them. The power in politics may be properly understood with proper understanding of the various political notions. Although, there are a number of notions that define political power the most critical ones at the moment are conservatism and feminism. Each of them is unique on the principles that define them as well as the political power that they hold. They have exclusive command on the flow of politics in the different countries ...

Abstract

The positive impact that gender equality and diversity produce on companies’ financial performance and success has already been proven. However, these aspects are still the acute problems in business. The process of fostering a diverse workforce implies accepting and supporting differences in the population and promoting a supporting working environment for every individual, regardless of race, religion, sexuality, gender, age, etc. In addition, it is particularly important to understand and meet the demands of the diverse customers, and diversity in the workforce is the answer. Moreover, companies should introduce mentoring and coaching programs to regulate gender equality issues and ...

Introduction

Domestic violence is one of the most alarming subjects on the United States legal and policymaking agendas. Legally, it is defined as any form of physical or psychological violence expressed by a partner in an intimate relationship towards other partner or a family member. Thus, although the scope of this definition is somewhat volatile across the different states, a common approach taken by the courts that the violence is ‘domestic’ if is directed against a family member, a spouse or cohabitant, or other person, who permanently reside with the assailant. The overwhelming majority of domestic violence cases has substantially ...

If Women Counted

Summary
While the work done by men outside the home is always acknowledged and included in the productivity figures of the economy, the contribution of women is always neglected and not cared for. Many economists have termed the neglect of women in the global economic activity as a sexist outrage that needs to be corrected. According to some analysts, neglecting the contribution of women to the society is equal to neglecting the intellectual property of a corporate entity. In both the developed and developing countries, a number of transactions are removed from the active economy and are do not involve any ...

Summary of the Paper

The ‘Municipal Housekeeping: The Impact of Women’s Suffrage on Public Education’ by Celeste Carruthers and Marianne Wanamaker is an informative paper that provides details on the extent to which women’s suffrage influences public education. From the paper, it is well evident that the reduction in the black-white gap has contributed substantially to the improved quality of black schools. The paper proposes that all these changes are as a result of major contributions by women. Today, as opposed to the past, more women exercise their voting rights thereby increasing the pivotal voter’s preferences for public education. The ...

Introduction

Myths and legends played a vital role in the progression of culture of the great civilizations of in the ancient world. In today’s ideological contemporaries, the role of myths to a specific culture fascinated scholars for ages and several theoretical approaches were attributed to understanding the context of myths. In this discussion Eastern mythology will be explored specifically the myth of the creation of the universe and Japan. Exploring the mythological context of creation employs the feminist and anthropological theoretical underpinnings. In addition, referencing other literatures to explain how the Japanese society makes use of the myth, its ...

Gender Bias in Workplace – The Alternative Solutions

Gender bias in workplace is an indication that the culture within the organization needs to be changed and improved. The stated problem of gender bias in workplace is considered one of the common, yet alarming issues in any organizations. There organizational leaders must ensure that the balance treatment between male and female employees is always included in the company’s operational procedure. Otherwise, conflict between genders might arise and positive employee perspectives towards the management might turn into negative ones. Therefore, it is essential that finding alternative solutions for this organizational problem must be done. Any proposed alternatives must ...

1.1 Introduction
The fight for equality between men and women while getting a major support via gender diversity awareness is still open and is said to be yet far from over when it comes to the work place. While there are laws against gender discrimination in the work place, there is yet much to “overhaul” in the system for women as capable as men to be paid as much as men receive for the same position, with the same responsibilities and same abilities (Puri, 2011). Women bachelor graduates are becoming more and more accomplished than their male counterpart. This ...

Executive Summary

With the growing demand of the competition, the companies have started taking the best skilled people from around the world. This has increased the diversity in the organization thereby adding the challenge to the managers. To enhance the effectiveness of the organization, the companies have growing tendency of increasing the diversity in their workforce. However, with this increasing diversity in the workforce, the people have started to feel the discrimination within the organization. This paper is the result of an attempt to analyze the diversity in the workforce. The paper proceeds with a candle light brightness about the need ...

Abstract

Green, fair trade companies, face unique problems since they are not oriented to maximizing profits. Indeed, they aim at improving the welfare of the members and create social and environmental impacts. As such, there is a conflict of interests from the multi-objective stakeholders. However, the study shows that careful analysis of the problems and initiating problem-solving techniques such as participatory management, strategic plans and use of qualified personnel reduce the challenges.
1.0 Background of the Study
This section entails the history of the company, vision, core values as well as the vision. Additionally, it outlines the events and activities ...

Introduction

In the contemporary business world, the work environment is constantly changing, so as the structure that defines the jobs, employees, and employment practices. The rise of globalization has allowed the employees to choose and have a voice in their place of work, and hence forcing the companies to rethink about the future contemporary and future means of acquiring, planning, and using physical space. Therefore, in order for a company to change and enhance the workplace performance, it is important to consider the most interesting issues that affect the contemporary and future work environment. The two most interesting issues in ...

Management: Managing Diversity and Equal Opportunities

Part 1
There has been the rise in the number of the financial crisis as well as poor corporate governance problems that have prompted the question as to whether having a corporate world run by women would yield fruitful results. Amid the multiple opinions on the topic of the glass ceiling, some people still contest the advantages of workplace diversity and equality. There has been the long pressing issue of the equality of the treatment of women in a similar manner/ equal to men, in the labor market (Gregory‐Smith, Ian, Main, & O'Reilly 109). According to Adams and Funk ( ...

Summary

Belstaff is a clothing company that came on board as the most sophisticated clothing company. The technology it used was important to ensure that the company made clothing that symbolized superiority. The company used cotton wax material to create cloth that was waterproof and yet breathable. Another benefiting factor is that the company invested in advertising. It branded its superior quality clothing with sophistication and made its use befitting to men.
The branding affected the female part of the market for the company. The women felt left out and even though the company gained a lot of customers in ...

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Domestic Violence (DV) issue in Britain: An Introduction
Following a long history of domestic violence in Britain, the issue is high on the public agenda that has affected significantly both on economic and personal expense to the British society (Walby, 2004). Throughout the last several years, the women’s rights activists realized several legislation meant to curb the menace of domestic violence in the country.
Moreover, domestic violence in Britain has realized social and political connotations that are usually carried out through patriarchal values. Furthermore, it has caused the ...

Research have shown that high levels of gender diversity in the workplace fosters a more inclusive workforce which experiences higher levels of tangible results than one gender oriented workforce. While companies tend to strive in recruiting talents from diverse ethnic and age groups, most of the companies tend to overlook gender diversity. (Ferraro, 2011).The gap in the employments rates between the two genders is widening, and affirmative action’s should be taken to address this worrying trend in the companies. Increasing gender diversity should be viewed as a strategy for the benefit of the company in contribution of the common ...

Report about Spain country

Report about Spain Country

- Capital: Madrid, 40°26′N 3°42′W
- Area: 505,992 km2, 195,364 sq mi).
- Population: 46, 704,314 (2013)
- Population Density: 92/km2, 240/sq mi
- Population Growth Rate: 0.73% (2013)
- Population Birth Rate: 10.4/1000 (2013)
- Infant mortality rate: 3.37/1000 (2013)
- Density per sq mi: 231

Economic Indicators.

- GDP (PPP): $1.414 trillion (2013)
- Per Capita GDP (PPP): $30,741 (2013)
- Distribution of GDP: Agriculture 40-45%, Tourism 5%, manufacturing, mining, and construction 24%, services 71.7% (2011).
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HR CULTURE-CROSS HR STRATEGIES

Hofstede came up with the cultural dimensions which are still being practiced today as a pre-requisite to the understanding of the concept of cross cultural communication. These dimensions are also said to have a strong influence on the values of members of a society and also on how these values link to the behavior. Cultural dimensions give insight into how organizations and businesses would make policies for a specific location. The six dimensions of culture include power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation and indulgence (Hofstede, 1984; Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov, 1991). Before actually relating these dimensions ...

As mass media continues to gain strength over the varying populations of the world, it is the body image of girls that seems to be influenced the most by the media’s effects. According to the survey, 68% of all respondents believe body image is important. This paper will analyze how the media effects the body image of girls, and will compare this information with the results received from the survey created and distributed.
There is a common central theme related to feminist research, which focuses on the homogenization of western cultural images of the ideal female body, which ...

VIDEA in Zambia

VIDEA (Victoria International Development Education Association)
VIDEA is a nonprofit organization that was established in 1977 for the inspiration and actions on the social issues of the world. VIDEA is involved in the number of programs for youth, community, educators, international development, engagement of youth and community and the actions for global education. It was begun from Victoria mainly, however, over the last seven years, it has involved in international programming and development. It provides a range of programs and work to the youth in South Africa and Canada along with internships and many other opportunities.
Since 1977, the ...

The contents of the questions relate to the different perspectives that people have on the politics of location and the impact that one can have based on the different circumstances that they find themselves in terms of location. In order to comprehend that our ‘situated knowledge’ is unbiased, one has to understand the perspectives that other people have about the topic in question when having a discussion. Additionally, some of the themes such as politics can be explained from the point of view that politics of location can articulate concerns of certain regions and that even if there exist some strong ...

Films based on fairy tale characters have evolved over generations to reflect the roles of females in society. This evolution has also impacted young viewer’s ideas of femininity and changed their dialogue about the subject. Disney, the foremost company in producing these types of films, has noticed that audiences want characters that are relatable and this mean changes over time. I believe that these types of character have evolved since the 1960’s and as a result has affect children’s linguistics. By comparing and contrasting popular Disney movies with “princess” type characters, I endeavor to explore this topic ...

REPORT: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF INDIAN WOMAN

Introduction
The report is all about the experience Shudha Mazumdar went through in her life from childhood to adulthood. Shudha was a woman born at the turn of the century to Indian parents whose ideas on child rearing differed greatly. Her father, who was a wealthy Europeanized Zamindar, tried to instill Western values, while Shudha's mother emphasized the traditional, even going as far as arranging a marriage for her daughter when she was thirteen. This report will comprehensively and coherently discuss Shudha’s memoires focusing in her experiences as a woman from child hood to adulthood.
Despite the fact that it ...

What happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like a raisin in the sun, or fester like a sore? This is the line from the Langston Hughes poem that served as the inspiration for the play and movie “A Raisin In The Sun.” The title is about dreams, but the story is about family; the structural and functional internal conflicts and the solid front it presents to the world. The solidarity of the Younger family is tested when the opportunity presents itself, in the form of a $10,000 life insurance payment. The way this money is viewed by the different ...

Executive Summary

The purpose of this study is to critically identify and assess both the internal and external organizational environment for Telstra Corporation, and offer conclusive description of how most of these environmental factors impact human resource management in organization. The report will also identify the current and emerging workforce trends and issues, and also assess their implications on human resource management and workforce with Telstra Corporation as the reference point. This report stresses upon the factors impacting on Human Resource Management (HRM) as a key strategic element for any business organization. The findings will help address most of the organizational issues ...