Essays on Working Women

The meaning of sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment - sexual acts expressed verbally (threats, intimidation, indecent remarks) or physically (touches, feeling etc.) character. Sexual harassment that is unwelcome sexual behavior to another person - including touching or explicit sexual content. However, sometimes it is difficult to define whether someone just teases or flirts, or there is sexual harassment. What is elaborate sexual harassment in cultural countries? It is not only the offender desiring to have sex. And, not only a danger, in which a prey is invited to either transfer to sexual demands or be in pain with the actions of rapist. The basic characteristic ...

Lynn University

In the world today there are many issues that need to be addressed. Some issues are more prevalent than others and some are easier to solve. One issue that while not easily solvable which needs to be addressed far more seriously on the world stage, is that of equal rights for women in particular equal pay for women. (Hartman et al., 3). Throughout history women's wages have been much lower as compared to their male counterparts. In the 1960’s that difference was 40.2 percent according to the U.S National Equal Pay Task Force in 2013, while in 2013 ...

Abstract

This paper covers the various ways working women manage themselves and look after their children simultaneously. It describes how working mothers handle their personal and professional lives, the impacts of such a routine on the family, especially on children’s development. When a mother is pregnant or raising toddlers, it is not possible for a lot of them to quit their jobs. In particular, the breadwinners who need to provide for their family find it extremely difficult to leave their jobs just like that. This article will demonstrate how the children get affected, both positively and negatively, when they ...

Introduction

Lush is an organic cosmetic providing business that started its operations in 1994. The primary products of the company are directed at young women, and the core area of expertise is skin care products. Lush is a British company headquartered in Poole. The motivation behind the formation of the company was to use natural ingredients and organic materials for the production of handmade skin care products and essential oils. The company has thrived with this idea and now maintains a global presence in more than forty countries around the world. The firm has more than 650 stores and distributes ...

Economic development, as scholars have cited, is synonymous with the concept of modernization (Diarsi 1996). Modernization and development refer to the progression of society from conservative opinions towards an inclusive and liberal approach where people enjoy equality irrespective of their gender or race. Modern society also assimilates the concept of a 'just' society where women have equal access to resources as their male counterparts and disparities regarding job opportunities, wages, and social status are either non-existent or negligible. Theoretically, modernization should be one of the automatic outcomes of economic development; however, practical examples may not testify this theoretical hypothesis. ...

A child needs stable family connections with the nurturing presence of their adults, which is their mother. Childhood is the most impersonating time of a person’s life which either makes or breaks a person. A mother is the direct source of influence and her ability to form a bond, provide paternal security and nurturing children’s needs by a constant guidance throughout. There are several factors, situations, condition and financial surrounding which help in influencing the children and generate long term benefits on upcoming generations.

Influences of Working Mothers on Children

During 1970-80s, the rate of working mothers was less as compare to today. ...

The Challenges of Working Women

Nowadays, we consider women as the equal citizens of the country who have the rights to vote, but, unfortunately, it was not always the same. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the women were only partially citizens as they had no tight to vote, so they had to work on the farms and conduct only the hard work which can hardly be called feminine. Even though women are the weak part of the humanity, they had to work really hard and fight for their rights and earning the respect of the manhood society. The women that were working ...

Introduction

The last two hundred years showed considerable social and political transformations and one of which is the substantial change in the role of women in the society. While the status of women in the workforce took a gradual transformation, the changes have surely allowed women to enjoy an enormous gain. From gaining employment rights to reducing the gender wage gap, women have come along way in their role in the labor sector since the onset of the industrial revolution. Understanding the historical role of women in the labor market for the past two hundred years provides a better insight ...

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1 Introduction Statement of Problem Statement of Purpose Research Questions Significance of the Study Definition of Terms: Chapter 11 History of pay inequality Chapter 111 Laws Chapter 1V Women in leadership roles Chapter V Research Methodology Conclusion

Bibliography

Abstract Gender Differences as a Predictor of Salaries in Leadership Roles. Salaries have increased drastically in the past 50 years but still there is a salary disparity between men and women. In today’s workplace, leadership roles are very competitive. Applicants must have many qualifications to be considered for leadership positions. Workforce found that women needed a Ph.D. to equal the ...

I. Introduction The turn of the 21st century proved to have brought a substantial change in the Canadian society. The transformation was apparent in almost every aspect, but this was most palpable in the role played by women in the labor sector, which is a crucial element in the success of the country. Accordingly, the participation of women in the labor sector was reported to have reached 8.1 million in 2009, which implies that the employment rate of women grew over twice as much as the employment rate in 1976 (Status, 2012). While women in Canada are found to ...

Abstract

The following article is a task paper that requires answering enlisted questions and draw inferences from the facts to answer the questions. This article aims at a better understanding of aspects of women’s psychology through answers to the questions asked.

Discussion

Q. Define and discuss access discrimination that women face in the workplace. Compare the experiences of men and women with respect to the glass ceiling, sticky floor and glass escalator. A. Women face many forms of discriminations at workplaces which include substantial pay bias between women and men working on equivalent duties, gender oriented abuse and ill-treatment of women. The ...

Business

The J M Smucker is an American Company. It manufactures products like fruit spreads, ice creams, and natural peanut butter.

Expansion in the Mexican Market

The goal of the J M Smucker Company is to sell peanut butter in the Mexican Market. The Company has decided to focus on only two age groups in Mexico. First age group includes children belonging to the age group of 4-14. The second age group includes youngsters from the age group of 15-24. The total population of Mexico in 2014 was 119.6 million from which first group comprises of 20% children and the second group comprises of 23% ...

Today, we are bearing witness to yet a crucial shift in the community beliefs that prefers women who stay at home with their children and take care of them. In the year 1999, the percentage of women having children under the age of 18 who did not work outside the residence stood at 23%. The proportion showed a large increase in the recent years with this percentage standing at 29% in 2012. No doubts that the extra attention has been healthy for the kids and were surely helping them cope with their lives in a better way. The wellbeing of these children ...

Introduction

This essay explores the issue of gender discrimination at workplace and the impact it can have on employee performance. Gender issues have been a part of human civilization since time immemorial but were only brought to attention around the 1980s. Historically, gender discrimination has been thought to be most obvious in the everyday workplaces and continues to be so. Many factors such as the gender based stereotypes as well as the organizational structures have been considered as the factors behind such discrimination. It is obvious that the working environments differ greatly for men and women in the developing as well ...

Introduction

Women have been seen and treated from a different perspective since the early ages. In every walk of life, men and women have been given different regard and significance whether at home, in schools, churches or even in the corporate world. Having been treated does not particularly mean in a negative connotation, but with respect to the workplace, what exactly has been the impact of the different treatment? Even in the American history, the gender role has been particularly critical for the success and downfall of the nation. There are many important questions that need to be answered while entering the ...

Retaining Careers Contribute to Child Well-Being and Future

Introduction The purpose of this literature review is to assess various researches into the positive impacts of being a working mother, and to assess whether or not working mothers have positive impacts on their children’s well-being and future when compared to stay-at-home mothers. Evidence suggests that working mothers can serve as good role models and caregivers for their children in comparison to mothers who stay-at-home with their children (Figes 1) (Heinrich 122) (Sherman 1). The labor participation rate of mothers with underage children was almost 70 percent in 2013 (“Latest Annual Data”). These statistics suggest the importance and ...

Redefining motherhood

Introduction The economy and the cost of living change the perspective of parenting in general and mothering in particular. With a high demand for basic needs such as education, mothers are increasingly flooding the job market to earn a living and supply their children's needs. This action leads to high rates of single-parent families or inadequate interaction between the mother and her family. The traditional form of nuclear family consisting a working man as the sole bread-winner and the wife as a full-time home-maker is on the decline in most urban households (Garey, 1993). In order to match the new standards and ...

The way social norms change and how well people adjust to these changes has always been fascinating. Growing up as a child whose mother was working, I have always come faced with viewpoints that I felt lonely and abandoned, because, they said, I lacked maternal affection. I never understood why affection was measured by the hours a mother spends with her child, because I was raised with much love and nurture, even though I did not see my mother as much as other children that had their mothers at home. I felt resistant to the concept that staying at home mothers ...

V. Environmental Forces - Political /Legal - The state requires that all businesses make known chemicals and substances that are used in the manufacture of products The law demands that all the substances used in the manufacture of products be made known to the public. They should carry the necessary clear and reasonable warnings if they are harmful to consumers or expose them to any form of healthy risks (Pride and Ferrell 197). It must be shown to the public that these substances have passed the requirements of the set FDA standards and, therefore fit for ...

The latter part of the 1960s brought many changes in the roles of women in the homes. The changes offset a number of issues that are positive and negative. Male advocates against these changes opine that the changes led to the breakdown in the family structure and values. But, how can the increase in financial assistance in the family lead to disaster? The responses vary as many critics believe that the family is the center of the values that individuals learn and present in the society. In fact, some critics go as far as to suggest that a woman’s role ...

Movie Paper

The movie, North Country has shown the controversial nature and the ugliness of the sexual harassment issue that is still prevailing in the developed as well as in the developing countries (Collin-Vezina, Dion, and Trocme). The story of the movie is an indication of the fact that the prejudice and bias against the women have never concluded in spite of the persistent claims of the theories regarding the efficiency of the law in promoting the equality between men and women. The movie North Country, has, however, also pointed out towards the fact that how the declared official equality of ...

INTRODUCTION:

Marketing Strategies help to develop a good fit between business goals, expertise, competencies, available resources and varying opportunities of the market. To examine the action plan and marketing strategies of FMCG, Nestle India is selected, a multinational company which has internationalized its operations and become the world leader in the industry. Nestle India Ltd., a subsidiary of Nestle Switzerland, is one of the largest companies in FMCG sector that provides and manufactures world class food, beverages, confectionery, prepared dishes, chocolates. Nestle India started its business in 1961 by setting up its first factory at Moga in Punjab, which has now turned ...

International Marketing Report

INTRODUCTION Marketing the product through proper strategic approach to facilitate the customers in a given area is the critical thread for any international company (Ghauri, & Cateora, 2010). The working purpose of the marketing project is to analyse AACo’s current situation, its target market in India, determine strategies for reaching potential clients and develop marketing tactics. The marketing project opens with an analysis of the company's situation analysis, including detailed Pest analysis of Indian market. Further, the report determines its major competitors in India. Hind Agro Industries Limited and ALM Industries Limited are the main competitors with the strong customer ...

The perception that women are weak is slowly changing as more women engage themselves in occupations and businesses that used to be dominated by men alone. Though in the past women have always been downgraded to do menial jobs, there are some areas in the world where sensitivity towards women and acceptance of their new role are being received positively. However, while there are societies that are more accepting of roles that women play now, there are still some cultures that ignore and restrain the changes happening in women. This could be brought about by the differences in cultural ...

Introduction

What is business stress? It is a state of mental and emotional strain experience by both employees and business owners. Work and business is felt during times of conflict, loss, boredom or anxiety. Stress is one of the frantic paces of business life. Business stress is a major problem and is becoming increasingly common due to stiff competition in the market and financial crisis ,(Bronner, R. ,2009).. People react in different ways to stress. Others find the pressure to immense and buckle under whereas others easily melt it and walk a stride. Stress is majorly due to a feeling that our lives ...

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Women in Lebanon

Certainly, European trends affect the change in the attitude towards women in Lebanon. But at the same time an important role in changing the usual stereotypes of society and changing the traditional understanding of the role women have played War, War Torn Lebanon. The civil war, which lasted for more than 15 years of Israeli occupation, which ended in 2000, the Syrian domination, completed in 2005, have led to profound changes in the structure of society. These changes were made and the status of women, their rights and lifestyle. War show ...

Introduction

Thesis Statement Facing the challenges imposed by the Islamic tradition and the social changes generated by the modern society, Turkish families are in a phase of transition, in which the women’s role becomes more pregnant. Although there are encountered various difficulties in finding work and the employment in Turkey is still far from being equal between men and women, the recent trends and the changes in the social structure indicate that women tend to emancipate, jumping from their traditional role linked to the household, outside this universe, by finding jobs and becoming financially independent.

Objectives

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In dual-career marriage, both partners have occupational careers that they pursue. These types of marriages are rare to find and differs from dual-earner marriages where only one partner has formal employment. Studies have shown that women are fond of undertaking double work, combining workplace responsibilities with domestic work. Having a dual-career marriage makes partners face a load overload while trying to cope with different strategies to improve their marriage. Couples should possess relational coping resources that include fantastic behaviors, cooperation in times of negotiation, and trust between them (Marshall, 1998). Researchers have tried to study the behavior of couples engaged in ...

Abstract

Under the fairly broad topic heading of “Women and World War I”, this research paper discusses the roles of women in countries directly involved in World War I, the opportunities available to them to actively support their country’s war effort, and the effects on their lives in those troubled times. Predictably, there were differences between the women’s permitted roles in the various countries discussed (United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Germany and Russia). One thing common to most countries discussed in this paper is that women earned a new respect and gained an increase in status as a result ...

Is Paternity Leave Reasonable?

Maternity leave for women is acceptable throughout the world and is enforced through the respective labor laws of every country. The significance of maternity leave is realized due to the responsibility of women towards their newborns and the vitality of mother’s presence for the survival and care of infants. With the importance of maternal care being realized at universal level, the significance of paternal care for the infant is still under discussion and receives little support from corporate and industries. Though several studies have established that father’s care is also vital for an infant, the concept of ...