Bisiness Worksheet
A Worksheet and Essay
Sheila Marzean
ETH/125
March 8, 2013
Kimberlee Moravick-Cheng
Throughout history women were viewed only as Evil and temptation. Roman law even described women as children and inferior to men. And example is Pandora, from Greek mythology, who opened that forbidden box which brought plagues to mankind. In early Christian theology St. Jerome in the 4th century was quoted as saying "woman is the gate of the devil, a path of wickedness, the sting of the serpent, in a word a perilous object." Later in the 13th century Thomas Aquinas, another Christian theologian, stated about women being "created to be man's helpmeet, but her unique role is in conception...since for other purposes men would be better assisted by other men." http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm The East was first to be much more favorable toward women such as allowing women to have individual freedoms by marriage and property rights. Hinduism however in around 500BC required obedience from women toward men, making them walk behind their husbands, not own property and even not allowing widows to get married again. They even preferred male children over female children.
Women today are still discriminated against. We don't make as much as men doing the same job, often only getting 67% of what a man gets. Women are entering the legal provision today in unprecedented numbers. Relatively few, however, become partners in the firms they enter. Of the 178 partners at Skadden, Arps in 1989, only 23, including Peggy Kerr, were women. But women have not achieved economic "parity" [equality] with men. A 1987 Congressional survey reported that women, on average, take home 68 percent of what men earn. That statistic, combined with the fact that many women are raising children alone, helps explain why far more women than men are living in poverty. Representative Barbara B. Kennelly (D-CT) says, "I think the most chilling line of the report is that women college graduates...earn on a
Sheila Marzean
ETH/125
March 8, 2013
Kimberlee Moravick-Cheng
Throughout history women were viewed only as Evil and temptation. Roman law even described women as children and inferior to men. And example is Pandora, from Greek mythology, who opened that forbidden box which brought plagues to mankind. In early Christian theology St. Jerome in the 4th century was quoted as saying "woman is the gate of the devil, a path of wickedness, the sting of the serpent, in a word a perilous object." Later in the 13th century Thomas Aquinas, another Christian theologian, stated about women being "created to be man's helpmeet, but her unique role is in conception...since for other purposes men would be better assisted by other men." http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm The East was first to be much more favorable toward women such as allowing women to have individual freedoms by marriage and property rights. Hinduism however in around 500BC required obedience from women toward men, making them walk behind their husbands, not own property and even not allowing widows to get married again. They even preferred male children over female children.
Women today are still discriminated against. We don't make as much as men doing the same job, often only getting 67% of what a man gets. Women are entering the legal provision today in unprecedented numbers. Relatively few, however, become partners in the firms they enter. Of the 178 partners at Skadden, Arps in 1989, only 23, including Peggy Kerr, were women. But women have not achieved economic "parity" [equality] with men. A 1987 Congressional survey reported that women, on average, take home 68 percent of what men earn. That statistic, combined with the fact that many women are raising children alone, helps explain why far more women than men are living in poverty. Representative Barbara B. Kennelly (D-CT) says, "I think the most chilling line of the report is that women college graduates...earn on a