Essays on Married Women

Introduction

The balancing of life and work is a problem for several individuals in organizations. Work-life balance as a concept has become popular in research works. Additionally, sociology, human resource management, psychology, as well as organizational studies are concerned with work-life balance. Most research encourages people to find an equilibrium of work and life. This is to avoid conflicts that often arise. The concept has also had various definitions proposed by scholars. Others define it as a sense of harmony in life. It is also described as satisfactory functioning at home and work with minimum conflict of roles. Focusing on ...

A single parent as per Hetherington (2014), is an uncoupled person who spends most of the days’ responsibilities raising a child or children. The term can also be used to refer to a person who is unmarried, widowed or divorced but has a dependent child or children. The primary caregiver of a single family structure is the mother. Single parent structures are as a result of calamities such as death of the partner, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy. Currently in the United states single dads make approximately of 6% of the entire households while single mums make up approximately a ...

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Abstract Sexual aversion disorder is characterized by the presence of aversion and avoidance of making a genital contact with sexual partners. In the DSM-IV-TR, the characterization of the problem was extended by the inclusion of some of the features of phobias such as anxiety, fear, and disgust; thereby describing it as a phobia. However, the disorder was deleted during transition from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5, probably due to the presence of scarce studies on the topic. Sexual aversion disorder is commonly found in women as compared to men, and it is commonly found in women in the ...

What ethical principles surround the abortion issue? Discuss these principles?

Abortion is referred to the deliberate or forceful action of expulsion/removal of a human fetus from the womb of a woman. The subject of abortion has always been covered in a raging argument about whether abortion should be labeled ethical and voluntary. In order to determine this, one has to understand the underlying principle that surrounds the issues of human abortion. There are many ethical principles that arise from abortion; however, one that is needed to be discussed is that whether fetus removal can be viewed as taking a human life, and whose choice is it to figure out ...

Introduction

Receiving education is a costly choice. There are costs to education in terms of direct monetary payments and an opportunity costs. The choice to go to school means forgoing waged employment. Therefore, there is an opportunity costs of the wages that would have been earned. Therefore, there is a need to compare the returns versus the cost of education to make optimal decisions. Estimating the returns to education for any population segment is useful in making decisions on the optimal schooling level at both a personal as well as societal level. From a policy standpoint, estimating returns to education ...

Sexual Violence Against Women in Turkey

Many women in Turkey who are the victims and survivors of sexually assualtted incidents face negative reactions from the society. Turkey is one of the developed countries where speaking about sexual violence against women is considered as Taboo. Violence against women is the most serious yet controversial issue of the world. All the countries, whether developing or developed, unable to eradicate violence against women completely. In Turkey, violence against women is being observed in different forms. The most recent survey was conducted in 2012, by the National Research on Domestic Violence against Women which reported that women are the ...

For a long time the ideal family resembled something out of “Leave it to Beaver”. The mother was in the home, baking homemade goodies and awaiting the father’s return from a hard day. Women were expected to reproduce. Children played outside, and never dared question their parents. If an accidental pregnancy happened outside of wedlock the girl was sent away to have it, or she and the father were forced to marry. Teenaged girls were more likely to get pregnant, despite the stigma that would be placed upon her. This is a far cry from the modern family, ...

Introduction

The last two hundred years showed considerable social and political transformations and one of which is the substantial change in the role of women in the society. While the status of women in the workforce took a gradual transformation, the changes have surely allowed women to enjoy an enormous gain. From gaining employment rights to reducing the gender wage gap, women have come along way in their role in the labor sector since the onset of the industrial revolution. Understanding the historical role of women in the labor market for the past two hundred years provides a better insight ...

America in the 1920s: Radical Social Change as a Result of Technological Innovation

Important periods in American history are remembered with nostalgia and awe by the subsequent generations. The 1920s are mainly remembered in American culture for the changing attitudes of the youth, who embraced modern ideas and embraced the technological and ideological changes at the level of the society. Thus, America faced changes of an unprecedented scale in the 1920s (Palmer, 2006). The nation’s economic social and cultural identity underwent profound transformations during this time (Palmer, 2006). Americans enjoyed economic growth, political stability, and an unprecedented transformation due to the technological advancements. Novel technologies and inventions allowed people to spend ...

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This research established in the article sought to explain the issue of marriage regarding Chinese rural young women and to give the grounds if the issue served as a risk or protective factor for their suicide. The analysis included a brief summary of the main ideas of the article, the purpose of the research, key findings and consequences of the results. Moreover, the major theoretical perspective to clarify the findings was based on Emile Durkheim’s social integration theory of suicide which highlights sources of people’s social support. The observations allowed ...

The Glass Ceiling: Women are under-represented in Management and Leadership Positions

Gender equality is a social issue that has invited the attention of policy makers as an important part of social justice. There are legislations enacted to give equal status to women in every area including the work place. Australian legislative body has passed a law in 1984, strictly specifying that no discrimination may be made against women at workplace regarding promotion, compensation and other facilities. Known as the sex discrimination act, it recommends legal action against discrimination on the basis of gender, sexuality, marital status, family responsibilities or pregnancy. It advocates for equal opportunity, status and respect enjoyed by ...