breastfeeding promotion work by the Health Promotion Agency in Northern Ireland has sought to reconceive of social spaces in ways that have the potential to improve intimate citizenship for breastfeeding women. KEY WORDS breastfeeding ◆ capabilities ◆ gender ◆ health promotion ◆ intimate citizenship ◆ Northern Ireland ◆ space INTRODUCTION . . . breasts are capable of transforming legislation‚ citizenship‚ and cities themselves. (Bartlett‚ 2002: 111) Much research has been carried out which seeks
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men. Yet‚ women continue to earn significantly less than men in their careers. The wage gap is the ratio earnings of women and men within the economy as a whole. Sociologists have studied that the persistence of the wage gap over time plays in the role of discrimination. Is there discrimination within the workplace? An estimate of 38% wage gap still remains unexplained when factors reasonably thought to affect the gap are controlled for: hiring‚ firing‚ promotions‚
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weaker gender. In some biased opinions‚ women are often thought of as mothers and homemakers. Throughout history‚ women have had to fight for their rights; while men had theirs handed to them at birth. Such discrimination against women as it relates to the workplace‚ has led to laws being placed to stop discrimination based on gender. This paper is centered on the gender pay gap and gives some common perceptions about the issue. I attempt to explain the reasons behind the gender wage gap between
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In whole world‚ there are billions of people and these people have rights to survive and all of people have same rights. However‚ some believe that people have no same rights and there is an injustice situation. Especially‚ gender discrimination is one of the most crucial controversial issue. Although in most of countries‚ men and women have same rights. Most of people especially women do not believe that women and men have same rights that they are equal and unfortunately‚ it has no definite answer
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This essay‚ published by The New York Times and written by the journalist Claire Cain Miller‚ establishes a counter argument for the position that many people have taken on the issue of the gender pay gap. Miller and Harvard labor economist‚ Claudia Goldin‚ established the view that the pay gap is because of gender and not because of comparisons between the different jobs that males and females take. Being informed is essential to finding solutions for an issue and in this essay Miller informs her audience
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higher median earnings percentage of 80.4%‚ showing that the gender pay gap is narrowing‚ but will not close completely unless the American people fight to help close it and give women the money that they deserve for working. The big number of seventy-nine percent has decreased especially since the 1970s and will
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Composition M7D2: Uncovering the Gender Gap One of the greatest social transformations of our time has been the movement of women into the labor force. As the numbers of females moving into the labor force prevail‚ the opportunities for women exist substantially more than ever before. As women cloud the workplaces‚ their presence is becoming prominent and common. However‚ there is one issue still being debated upon‚ the gender gap. The problem of gender differences in salary raises a lot
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difference in salary they make for the same amount of work they put in? In the United States‚ for every dollar a man earns in the‚ a woman earns an average of 77 cents (Khan). The effect of this wage gap is that women and their families earn $10‚470 less than men‚ leaving them shortchanged. (“The Wage Gap: The Who‚ How‚ Why‚ and What To Do”). Here in Armonk‚ most of us are very fortunate
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“There is nowhere in the world where women’s wages are equal to those of men” (Off Our Backs 2003). In the United Kingdom‚ women make 27% less than men (Off Our Backs 2005). In Korea and Japan‚ men make over 30% more than women‚ meaning that for every dollar a man makes‚ a woman makes less than seventy cents (Rampbell). In Belgium‚ the gender wage gap is less than 10%‚ meaning a woman makes more than ninety cents for every dollar a man makes (Rampbell). In the United States‚ women make about seventy-five
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twenty-one cents to every dollar a man earns. The wage gap between genders was and is still a problem around the globe. The process to fix this broken system may take an estimate of 118 years‚ but there are things being implemented to rectify the wage gap‚ such as‚ raise of the minimum wage‚ paid sick days and pay transparency (Grimley). The Center for American Progress recently released a report called 7 Actions that Could Shrink the Gender Wage Gap it states‚ “While nearly two-thirds of mothers are
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