Race And Diversity Research Paper

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Susan Fitzl Final Paper December 15, 2012 Race, Ethnic, and Diversity In this paper I will be discussing which of the concepts from our textbook from the second half of our semester I feel will have the biggest impact on my life and why? I will also be discussing which of the concepts from this book I feel are most applicable to my career and why? Some other things that I will be discussing are whether or not any of my viewpoints have changed based on what I have learned and whether I feel I will be any different based on what I have learned throughout these chapters. I think that the chapter that’s concepts will have the biggest impact on my life is “AM I THIN ENOUGH YET?” I have been a bartender for the past ten years and have always…show more content…
As I stated earlier I am a single mom so I feel like I should be treated the same as the next person. I think that if I have the same education as someone else I should get the same benefits and pay as they do. One of the sentences from this chapter did however make me very angry; “Frustrated women talk about how, once they came back from maternity leave, colleagues began to treat them as unreliable and unpromotable-almost willfully overlooking and evidence of productivity.” Just because a person has a child does not mean that their brain is no longer any good, what do people think that the baby ate her brain? I think that being aware of the unjust sexiest stereotypes that are happening in my work force will help me achieve more. What I mean when I say this is that if I am aware of something I will know how to handle it better. If I am aware of statistics of what other men or women are making I will be better equipped to know what to expect and to fight for. One of the things that I found disturbing in this chapter was the statistic that in my lifetime as a college graduate I will make 1.2 million dollars less than a male in my same career field, I feel that is a very significant difference. I don’t feel like there should be such a substantial difference just because I am a woman. I do feel like what I have learned in this chapter will make me different in my career because it will make me fight harder for equality in my work force. I feel like what I have learned in this chapter is going to give me the courage to defend myself to try to correct the unjust sexual inequalities that will be to a disadvantage towards me in my

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