Death rates from all cancers has fallen twice as fast for men than women. Therefore meaning that health is very unequal for both gender’s. Gender stereotypes have a huge impact in the equalness of men and women, As women are sometimes still seen as the primary carers of children. Women’s jobs are usually associated with the 4 C’s, caring, cleaning, catering and cash registers. Women are often stereotyped into certain jobs and out of others yet they make up more than 50% of the workforce.
There are more whites than blacks on death row. Each year more whites than blacks are executed. If there was a shocking racial disparity anywhere, it is not in the punishing but in the committing of murder: Blacks comprise only twelve percent of the population, yet fifty percent of all homicides are committed by blacks.” The U.S. Justice Department conducted a study in 2001 on the racial bias of capital punishment. Based on the study of almost nine hundred death penalty cases, the Justice Department found that there was no evidence of racial bias. According to Attorney General John Ashcroft “black and Hispanic defendants were less likely at each stage of the department's review process to be subjected to the death penalty than white defendants," The study found that other factors contributed to what appeared to be racial bias.
With the intent of reducing discrimination against freed slaves the government passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It was eighty years later that another civil rights movement would stir in the United States. Western society was changing its ideology that segregation based on race was acceptable to the belief that everyone has inherent human rights. In response to this transformation of societal values the government sought to equalize treatment of minorities in employment practices with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This opened the door to a series of affirmative action policies that would change the way business and government carry out their basic functions.
He ultimately succeeded in his push to transform the system when he passed Medicare and Medicaid, and increased federal funds for research. One last major contribution of President Johnson’s to this era of liberalism was his education reforms. These acts increased college enrollments, provided students the option of a federal college student loan and expanded research at universities. They also served to enhance integration, since funds were not provided for segregated schools. To conclude, President Johnson set the stage for a period of immense federal reform and a shared sense of equality for the American people – a pinnacle of liberalism.
He expanded the staff of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), his Labor Department doubled Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCC) checks, and his Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) developed the Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Regulation. Nixon also issued Executive Order 11625, which directed federal agencies to develop plans and programs for a national Minority Business Enterprise program and instituted data collection for the Office of Minority Business Enterprise Information Center. Under Nixon’s presidency, with the help of the Equal Employment Opportunity (EOO) Act of 1972, it became law that discrimination was prohibited in governments at all levels. Overall, the 1972 act provided minority employees with control to act on more unruly agencies. The act also led to a greater employment of Blacks and other people of color in the public sector.
By the 1990s lone-parent mothers had a 2 in 3 chance of being poor. Women's greater life expectancy, their lower wages, lack of private pensions and disrupted employment patterns also help to explain why the majority of the elderly poor are women. At the other end of the scale, families in the top 20% of income brackets are most likely to contain a married couple (at least one of whom generally has a university degree), live in a major city, and own a home and a car. Women in these families, families that are the most likely to conform to the stereotypical but distorted image of the family, tend to be either professionals and managers with high-paying jobs, or they stay out of the labour force. Today the majority of married women are working or are actively looking
However while in the 2012 election 55% of women voted democrat, 53% of married women voted Republican, where as Obama won unmarried women two-to-one: 67% to 31%. This shows that Republican traditional values appealed more so to married women therefor they were targeting their traditional demographic within women and succeeding. In 2008 John McCain won married women by 53-47 percent and in 2004 they chose George W. Bush even more decisively by 55 to 44 percent, although both of them lost the over all female vote. This is because there is an over whelming majority of single women. In 2012 there were 100 million unmarried women vs 60 million married women, so their vote was the one which really made there difference, just as it did in 2008 with a 70 to 29 percent margin to Barack Obama This demonstrates how the two parties differing ideologies, candidates and actions while in government create a divide between the female vote.
In his research, Drucker maintained the importance of gender diversity within an organization. He felt that females had meaningful knowledge of career and financial decisions because they took care of their households. They had to step up and take care of things when their husbands went off to war. Two specialist advisers from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Mike Emmott and Dianah Worman, give advice on corporate social responsibility and diversity in the article “The Steady Rise of CSR and Diversity in the Workplace.” In this article, they discuss how diversity can result in a productive working environment. Employees should be valued and their talents should be fully utilized.
Sullivan, 2014) Laszlo Bock commented that there are fewer women and minorities who obtain tech related degrees at university: “ There are lots of reasons why technology companies like Google struggle to recruit and retain women and minorities. For example, women earn roughly 18 percent of all computer science degrees in the US. Blacks and Hispanics make up under 10 percent of US college grads and collect fewer than 5 percent of degrees in CS majors, respectively.” (L. Bock, 2014). 5 The issue that Google is facing is not unique. Almost every major company from the tech sector is influenced by the small number of women and minorities.
The National Employment Law Project finds that about sixty-six percent of low-wage workers are employed by large companies or corporations, not small businesses. “It also found that more than seventy percent of the biggest low-wage employers have recovered from the recent recession and are recording strong profits, yet wages remains unchanged for their frontline employees. The minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation, making those with families of three or more people well below the poverty level.”(National Employment Law Project) One group claims that by increasing the rate, small businesses will be strapped for making ends meet thus potentially having fewer available job positions. There is also the concern of having to layoff employees in order to make a profit. Another factor to consider is perhaps companies may have to raise the price of a consumer good or product to offset the increase in an employee’s wages.