Legally Promoting Women

In Australia the legal system has tried to address some of these problems. ... However, despite all the changes that have occurred in the Australian legal system to stop unequal treatment and discrimination in the workplace, women although less needy then before, are still disadvantaged. ... Due to the disadvantages that women face, the Australian Legal System has been reformed by many laws to stop unequal treatment in the workplace, women are still although less needy then before, are still disadvantaged. ... Overall, the Australian Legal System has shown that it has tried to address the...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the legal remedies and formal controls that arose in this wave of legal reform stemmed from the Pennsylvania Protection from Abuse Act in 1976. ... By 1980, 47 states had passed domestic violence legislation mandating changes in protection orders, enabling warrantless arrest for misdemeanor assaults and recognizing a history of abuse and threat as part of a legal defense for battered women who killed their husbands (Fagan 7). ... Each of these policy tracks has been informed, advanced, and supported by advocacy groups for battered women (Fagan 8). ... Simply stated, "men who abuse ...

• Word Count: 2411
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Previously, women had very few legal rights an most societies placed women in an inferior position compared to that of men. ... The wife's livelihood, property and indeed legal existence merged into that of her husbands. ... Today, females and males are supposed to have equality of access to education and training in schools changes to curriculum promote the participation of female students in courses that would of been considered 'male? ... During the 1980s the government in New South Wales set up many educational programs promoting girls? ... Some of the reasons that may account fo...

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• Grade Level: High School

Prostitution should not be legal in the United States because it does not benefit the prostitutes, it encourages other sex-related issues, the size of the industry expands quickly, and it promotes the objectification of women. ... The number of illegal brothels exceeds the number of legal ones. ... Many countries have made prostitution legal and have had it legal for quite some time now. ... If prostitution was legalized, the United States would be promoting the objectification of women. The United States is built on a foundation that promotes equality and opportunity for all. ...

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Its offices were in Langham Place in central London, and the young feminist who gathered there founded the Langham Place Circle in 1859 to organize for woman's legal, economic, and educational rights. They established the society for promoting the employment of women, which had a Ladies' Institute at the Langham Place offices the provided a job register, reading room, and lunchroom, a well as a postal address for women seeking work. ... Many reformers realized that finding jobs for women was not enough; women needed access to better education as well. ... Emily Davies published The H...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The percentage of Catholics that support legal abortion is almost as high as the percentage of Protestants. ... This is not true, as many churches and religious organisations in the United States support legal abortion. ... A wide range of religious and women's groups, such as the National Organization for Women, support legal abortion. ... In 1971, about 38 percent of the world's population lived in countries where abortion was legal. ... Women should not have the right to abortion on demand, as this can promote an "easy way out" if a mother doesn't want a child. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Before, women had very few legal rights and most societies placed women in an inferior position compared to that of men, and some still do. ... The wife's livelihood, property and legal existence merged into that of her husbands. ... Some of the reasons that may account for the difficulty women have in being promoted would be women have interrupted careers, for example, pregnancy and child rearing, and most employers considerate a hassle to deal with. Another reason why women aren"t promoted as much as men is because some employers, with traditional views, believe that women can not deal...

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The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and other constitutional amendments that followed changed the legal status of African-Americans. ... In the late 1960's, women organized to demand legal equality with men. They founded the National Organization for Women to press for equality. As a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women made gains against employment discrimination. ... So in the end, we have a country that promotes unity and the ability to think freely, but the reality is that we have neither....

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Since the 1994 Genocide, Rwanda has undergone significant political and legal reforms that have been highly influenced by its colonial and postcolonial history. The now multi party semi presidential constitutional republic follows a civil law system that has its roots in the Belgian, and to an extent, the German civil law system, that has been moulded by Rwanda's own political and legal history. ... He helped to incite and provoke the ethnicity based violence, promoting Hutu extremism until it eventually escalated into the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, where 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered bet...

• Word Count: 1492
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate