The issue of sex bias in education moved into the public policy realm when Representative Edith Green (Oregon) introduced a higher education bill with provisions regarding sex equity. ... In total, five proposals made to end sex discrimination in education. ... Fully accommodate the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex. ... They fight stereotypes that women do not have interest in traditionally male-dominated activities. ... It's hard if you are not one of the ones who made all state and your being recruited by everyone. ...

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Do Companies Exercise Unethical Hiring Practices? ... How can choosing an employee based on race benefit a company? ... When asked about Asians and their work habits, the Atlanta fast food restaurant owner responded, "They never talk back to you or anything. ... I have eight years experience". ... However, using the term bodywork opens that advertisement for both sexes. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Background information How common is sexual harassment at work? Several organisations have carried out research to try to establish how many people have experienced sexual harassment at work. ... It is difficult to find out how common a problem sexual harassment is, precisely because it often goes unreported. ... Nearly three-quarters of those responding claimed to have been harassed by managers or owners/managing directors and 95% reported to have been harassed by men. ... What are employers doing to prevent harassment? ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Moreover, it does not allow women to enter the structure of authority and power as an equal member. ... But to have any hope, certainty or believe we should firstly investigate the current situation that can give us a full picture of what chances we- females do have and do not and then what of them we are expected to get. ... The spouses of civil servants - their husbands were needed to know what could be the level of difference between the answers of males and females and what do husband consider his wife to be and what are the ideological constraints do they both have in participation of w...

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Sex Discrimination In the Wall Street Journal/Gallup survey, women managers were asked what they consider to be the most serious obstacle in their business careers. ... In a recent poll of 12,000 workers by the Los Angeles Times, two-thirds reported sex discrimination; 60% saw signs of racism. ... The glass ceiling has been challenged in the courts under anti-discrimination laws and employees have prevailed in lawsuits in which an employer failed to provide equal promotional, mentoring, ore networking opportunities for women and minorities Does the glass still exist after years of anti- d...

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• Grade Level: High School

This study aims to discover if gender stereotypes still exist in today's modern society and, if they do, why they are perpetuated. ... These resultant themes correlate with the popular psychological concepts of Implicit Attitudes, Benevolent Sexism, Social Identity Theory, Sex Role Theory and the Theory of Lay Epistemology. ... For many years, there has been considerable interest in gender stereotypes and the extent to which they are perpetuated by society as well as how they have affected, negatively or positively, gender groupings. Studies such as Auster and Ohm's journal on gen...

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Does seniority play a role in affirmative action? ... According to Cheryl Perry-League, Director of Equal Opportunity of the Port of Oakland, every business operating on Port of Oakland owned land must have a standing affirmative action program on record and businesses bidding to do work for the Port of Oakland must have an acceptably diverse workforce. ... Affirmative action "refers to various efforts to deliberately take race, sex, and national origins into account to remedy past and current effects of discrimination. ... By increasing morale, you maybe able to retain more employees, recruit...

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Does seniority play a role in affirmative action? ... According to Cheryl Perry-League, Director of Equal Opportunity of the Port of Oakland, every business operating on Port of Oakland owned land must have a standing affirmative action program on record and businesses bidding to do work for the Port of Oakland must have an acceptably diverse workforce. ... Affirmative action refers to various efforts to deliberately take race, sex, and national origins into account to remedy past and current effects of discrimination. ... By increasing morale, you maybe able to retain more employees, recruitm...

• Word Count: 2762
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Also how is to say a woman cannot do the same work load as a man? ... If you cannot have a goal in life to achieve why live, affirmative action allows you to have a chance not an actual job. ... Just because one does not believe in something does not mean they do not respect it. ... By making companies use certain quotas on workers, by having to have so many people of a race in their work. ... There are people in the world in which will do almost anything to have a chance for their dreams to become a reality, but because of their race or gender this is an unachievable task. ...

• Word Count: 4281
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• Grade Level: High School

The case should be thoroughly studied to fully understand how the discrimination laws, under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) are interpreted in the court systems for this case. ... This paper will look at what point can a person be forced to retire because of age, what types of legal action can you take and what types of injunctive relief are allowed. ... The Supreme Court of the United States is intervening into how companies hire and fire their workers by establishing rules that employers must follow in human resource depart...

• Word Count: 3552
• Approx Pages: 14
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• Grade Level: High School