... family were giving a food ticket for twenty-three shillings per week, this stopped in January of nineteen thirty-three because of the dreaded Means Test. This was one policy brought in by the government that enhanced and worsened the experiences of the unemployed. This meant that the family of ... of two of their children. This account highlights one of the main differences in the variations of experiences between the unemployed in terms of gender. It shows that there was a higher possibility of someone younger finding work and being in employment than an older worker. The historian Ber...

• Word Count: 1787
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and worthwhile. In order for students to be assessed equally standardized testing is implemented. All students are assessed equally, because the same test maybe different versions are given, with no regard to sex, gender, or ethnic background. If in need, test will be given to accommodate students with special needs such as learning disabilities and students that speak English as a second language. All ... test are made fair! Standardized testing is a way to assure children that they have a fair chance for further education. These standardized test set the standards for all students ......

• Word Count: 749
• Approx Pages: 3
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... which makes males the modern losers educationally because they are being highlighted as lower performers than girls. Social class and minority ethnic groups are main reasons for attainment gap, but gender is still significant. The 1870 Education Act meant that education was available for all children under the age of 10, but education was very different for girls as the majority ... boys. More recently, the attainment gap between boys and girls has widened, but in favour of females, rather than the historically traditional male favour. However, despite the gap between gender attainment,...

• Word Count: 2366
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... social housing has distracted attention from the problems facing many low-income owner-occupiers and the complex mixture of tenures and socio-economic, ethnic and gender relations to be found in many urban areas. In policy terms this focus has produced a narrow obsession with the need to introduce a ` ... Labour's flagship regeneration programme, was the New Deal for Communities (NDC), with 39 areas being designated. NDCs are in many ways the test-bed of Labours' idea that urban areas that have suffered the most extensive decline require long-term programmes to turn them round. They will...

• Word Count: 9857
• Approx Pages: 39
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... studies to show an inverse relationship, showing that a greater availability of sexually explicit material seems to correlate not with greater rates of sexual violence, but, rather, with higher indices of gender equality (Strossen 1995b). Strossen, along with other anti-censors, like to focus on the positive aspects of porn that they believe to exist. Strossen views sex instruction books, like The ... harm, and adversely affects attitudes towards women. In order to determine exploitation of sex, the courts created a "community standard of tolerance- test, to see not what Canadians would...

• Word Count: 2327
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... case Griggs v. Duke Power Co., this issue was brought to the Supreme Court. In this case, the Duke Power Company required employees to have a high school diploma and pass a written test for advancement. The African American employees felt this was unfair, as they had not been allowed the right to public schooling in the past and were almost illiterate. They challenged ... minorities. A motivation by companies, aside from legal aspects, is the desire for integration with the intent of achieving racial and gender diversity. Socially, the desired effects of affirmative action are to reduce...

• Word Count: 2301
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... admissions slots were unfilled and reserved for minorities. In July of 1995 there was a decision made by the Board of Regents of the University of California to end race and gender-based preferences in admissions (240). Five months later, Proposition 209 was passed which is a state constitutional amendment that brought the exclusion of the use of race and ... gender-based decision-making in public institutions (240). These laws caused a debate over affirmative action, which leads us to the question: Should the UC's race-based affirmative action admissions policies be ... rejected cand...

• Word Count: 1800
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate