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    Chameleon Shoes Sources of Capital Every business needs some form of capital investment hence the need for entrepreneurs to identify reliable sources of financing. The chameleon shoes venture, being a new business opportunity will require reliable sources of capital. In fact, the chameleon shoes business will require finances to purchase assets and for its working capital operations. As such, this paper seeks to explore various sources of capital with particular interest on venture capital as

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    The gender pay gap in Hollywood The gender pay gap is the difference in pay earned by men and the pay earned by women.( Pay Equity Commission, 2012). There are various ways in measuring the pay gap between genders, such as full- time or full- year wage. Statistics Canada data ( 2012) displayed that the gender pay gap in Ontario was 26% for full- time and full- year employments, which means for every C$1 earned by a man, a woman earned 74 cents( Pay Equity Commission,2012).The pay gap has been narrowing

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    2017 ​​​​​Gender Equity Society’s understanding of gender roles debate about gender equity and have always been connected to the social roles that men and women we assigned to shape Americans views of education for girls and boys. What has also been affected is race and social class between females and males who attend schools. Ideas of what women and men are suppose to be and do have cut across different classifications. Ending unfairness in schools has rested on change to gender roles mainly

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    “Gender equality has been explained as both the equal treatment of women and men before the law and women 's and men 's equal usage of resources, opportunities, and services within the family and society” (Kalayci & Hayirsever, 2014). In its most broad definition gender equality refers to the equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys. Gender equality implies that the interests, needs and priorities of both, women and men are taken into consideration, recognizing

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    and stuck in the past family model (ref 1 - p. 3). Gender equity is one of the major issues of people in now days, but female dominance in the early childhood education field is accepted by the public and making people's wrong perception that women are naturally better than men for caring of young children (ref 2). Furthermore, it is a wrong assumption that female dominance in early childhood education has been just a gender equity issue. The gender dominance in early childhood education negatively

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    conflicts and ethnic issues, practicing parliamentary system and continue moving forwards to make sure improvement in the political and socioeconomic situation. In addition to that, as a developing country, sensitive issues likewise human rights and gender issues have low ranking on prioritization compare with other development issues. Nevertheless, Myanmar has to address the issues of women and girls’ rights in term of more equal and equitable opportunities to the rights to access the education, health

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    The Figueroa's Framework

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    Sport Equity is about fairness; creating equality of access by recognising inequalities and acting to address them. It is about changing the culture and structures of sport to ensure that it becomes equally accessible to all members of society, whatever their age, ability, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, or social economic status (Lancashire Sport, 2017). Action plans to address sport equity and access matters are often linked to Figueroa’s framework (Amezdroz, G., Dickens, S., Hosford, G., Stewart

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    “"Winner of national transgender beauty pageant stripped of her title because she was 'not transgender enough '” Discussion Question #1.) What do you think defines someone as a boy or a girl? Traditional gender norms? Physical appearance? What happened? - Jai Dara Latto, transgender female, the winner of the national transgender beauty pageant, gets her title taken away (Murray, 2016) - Accused of being a drag queen, and not transgender enough (Murray, 2016) - Reason given is that Latto was shown

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    reason as to why it is an inequality, not an equity case is that it addresses the issue of discrimination based on gender as mentioned by CBC News (2012) “Walden said that for decades women like her have been paid a lot less than men who do similar work.” (para. 5). It is an example of inequality as female nurses were underpaid for performing the same job as males that contradicts the principle of accommodation. In other words, it is a case of gender inequality where the issue is that of discrimination

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    debate, and The third wave (1990’s – present): The “micropolitics” of gender equality. Mainstream hip-hop culture contradict feminism because in the hiphop culture men are seen as dominant and superior to women while feminism is advocate equity for all genders. Mainstream hip-hop culture contradict feminism because in the hiphop culture men are seen as dominant and superior to women while feminism is advocate equity for all genders.

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