selecting a career field is rate of pay. No matter whether the profession maybe‚ the dollar figure must be within a range that allows the employee to maintain a substantial lifestyle. The debate of teacher pay scales has raged on for years. Many argue that the current pay scale for teachers is a scale which rewards teachers merely for seniority. They argue that the current pay scale overlooks those educators which demonstrate exceptional performance. Teacher merit pay systems have been the most popular
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families can be supported in this day and age on one salary‚ so more and more mothers are looking for jobs to help “bring home the bacon” to create a secure home for children. But finding jobs is very difficult for these work-seeking women. “The supposed pay gap appears when marriage and children enter the picture. Child care takes mothers out of the labor market‚ so when they return they have less work experience than similarly-aged males. Many working mothers seek jobs that provide greater flexibility
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Paying students for good grades? If schools truly want students to do well in school‚ then schools should pay students for their hard work. There are lots of ways why students should get payed for good grades. First of all‚ it prepares them for the world. Another reason is‚ that their test scores will increase because they are motivated to do well in school. In addition‚ it will increase the graduation rates in high school. From better graduation rates‚ to learning about work‚ to making kids smarter
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Imagine a world where people would do big favors for people they didn’t even know. Catherine Ryan Hyde created this world in her novel Pay It Forward. The story is about a boy‚ Trevor‚ who decides to start a movement called “Pay It Forward” after being assigned to change the world as an extra-credit assignment in his social studies class. Trevor ends up creating a worldwide movement of people helping each other‚ and he dies because of the cause. Trevor shows the power of one because he helps a homeless
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In order to apply the Equal Pay Act there are four criteria that need to be met. They are; Equal Skill‚ Equal Effort‚ Equal Responsibility‚ and Similar Working Conditions. According to the article titled An Analysis of the Equal Pay Act‚ “Equal Skill constitutes the performance requirement of the jobs under consideration‚ not the skills which are unnecessary for the job but which an employee might possess.” Examples of the skills that are under consideration are experience‚ training‚ education‚ and
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This article was downloaded by: [La Trobe University] On: 19 September 2013‚ At: 02:53 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House‚ 37-41 Mortimer Street‚ London W1T 3JH‚ UK The International Journal of Human Resource Management Publication details‚ including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rijh20 Women at workequality versus inequality: barriers for
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The general argument made by Carl Richards in his work‚ “Fighting the Gender Pay Gap” is that some factors that affects gender pay gaps are the fact that there is bias‚ not enough awareness‚ and no real consequences for those companies not willing to change. More specifically‚ Richards argues that many companies aren’t willing to change and help decrease the gender pay gap. He states‚ “There’s no real consequence if they don’t” (Paragraph 4).Richards is suggesting that companies are unwilling to
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choosing to talk about in this essay is equal pay among women. For decades women have been a part of the oppressed population‚ women were nothing to men but property‚ and to this day women are not taken as serious as men. Though we have come a long way from the early 1900s we as women still a long way to go. Even in a female dominated field such as social work men are still getting paid more than women. The topics I will be talking about in this essay will be who does this impact‚ what is the economic
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Pay It Forward Debra Ball Psy/490 July 22‚ 2013 Stephanie Towns Pay It Forward An act of kindness can develop values for both the person receiving the aid and the person offering the support as well as community development. In this summary key points are discussed on altruism. The summary stems from an act of kindness‚ which was conducted by the author as a student of Capstone Course in Psychology/Psy 490. I presented money to a person who needed money for his or her
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With this idea in mind‚ it is known that women are generally seen as inferior when compared to men. Additionally‚ women were not granted the same rights as men until the 1920’s when the 19th Amendment was established. This‚ however‚ has caused a difference of how women are viewed and treated in society as opposed to men. An example of this can be seen in the NY Times article titled‚ “Equal Pay for Equal Play?” written by Carl Stoffers dated January
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