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    Gender Roles In Australia

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    Australian families have experienced many significant changes over the past 6 decades. For women these changes consequently resulted in equality of opportunities, and conditions in the labour force. Along with the willingness of most men to become voluntarily involved in core household work, as well as taking on a greater role with respect to childcare. This essay will discuss two significant changes in gender roles, and will examine some of the positive and negative impacts it had on Australian

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    one thing in common—they only recruited the men to serve and protect. Now over time women were finally allowed to serve along sides the men, but not without putting a fight about being equal in the armed forces. The author Rosalind Chait Barnett, who is a scientist and a director and the Brandeis University, wrote the article “Women and Work: Where Are We, Where Did We Come From, and Where Are We Going?” which talks about the past of of only the women being oppressed. Martha McSally, who is a professor

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    century and present day, leading women in America and all around the world have stood up for the rights of their gender in order to eradicate the social inequalities and stereotypes that have been formulated over hundreds of years to convey the impression that women are the inferior gender. This movement stimulated many ideas on the treatment and perception of women as a gender and came with progress but also with opposition. While many acknowledged the oppression toward women in society, others accepted

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    would give women the right to vote. They try very hard over the next 50 years to educate the public about the validity of the women’s suffrage. They attention was to lobby Congress to pass a and Elizabeth Stanton along with for an amendment that would enfranchise women the right to vote. On June 4, 1919 the amendment was passed by Congress and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th. Amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. https://www.nwhm.org/.../rightsforw..

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    still needed in 2014, but it shouldn’t be. We shouldn’t need to have feminists just to get the idea through that women deserve equal rights. Women deserve equal pay. Women deserve to be treated on the same level of respect as men. That it is not okay to rape women (or anybody, in that matter.). We, women, are not sexual objects. We're intelligent and capable of anything men are. We are equal. But at this time in history we do need feminists for humanity. Society is failing and people seem to still ask

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    word meant so I paid no attention to it. It wasn’t until later when I started to join social media websites that I started to learn about the Feminist movement that was happening and what it really was. Feminist believe that women should have equal civil rights and respect as men do and that discrimination should not be made against someone based on gender, religon, seuxality, race, or anything like that. Celebrities have spoken on the fact that they are feminist, for example Beyonće and Patrick Stewart

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    to apply. In 1970, the Equal Pay Act was introduced. It requires employers to provide equal pay for equal work. The Sex Discrimination Act enforces fair recruitment policies. The European Equal Pay Directive and the Equal Treatment Directive are also in force. If individuals feel

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    Men and women are treated in different ways in our society due to the differenence in sex/gender because the misconceptions and specific stereotypes pertaining the female gender. A misconception can be viewed as view or opinion that is incorrect because it is based on faulty thinking or understanding. Society has the misconception that women are not equal in physical strength and willpower as their male counterparts. This leads to women not to be taken seriously in professions such as carpentry,

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    Sentiments by altering the text and use it to the benefit of women. With it, she effectively persuaded legislators to support women’s suffrage, and consequently began the First Wave of Feminism. Both Declarations use exemplification to support their assertions in regards of freedom and equality; moreover, both declarations demonstrate different sides to the meaning of freedom

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    The Gender Wage Gap

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    lot less money than the men at her job at her seniority level. Lilly is one of thousands of women who have experienced the gender wage gap. Because she is a women she was payed less then the men at her job because she was seen as “not smart enough, or not qualified enough.”The gender wage gap is a pretty big problem today and has been a problem since the beginning, and many people have been trying to change that and tell their stories. I believe women and men should get equal pay for the same jobs

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