resident. For me‚ this issue is the primary motivator to dedicating my career to public service. Realizing the inequities present within my community has allowed me to focus on tackling the overarching issue that has continues to create so many disparities in my home: inequity in education.
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History of Wage and Gender Disparity in America Muhannad Kateeb SOC 402 Contemporary Social Ashford University Dana Rock 6/27/11 History of Wage and Gender Disparity in America The idea that women earn less than men in the work place is no longer a subject for debate. Study after study has shown that women earn less than their male counterparts. In 1998‚ for every dollar a man makes‚ a woman earns .73 cents (CNN‚ 2000). Since then it has gotten better but not by much. As of 2010 women
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Eliminating Health Disparities Despite major advances in the fields of medicine and healthcare services over the past years‚ a significant health gap between rich and poor remains. As populations grow‚ so apparently do health disparities. The poor continue to shoulder a particularly disproportionate social burden in terms of inequitable access to decent healthcare‚ rising costs and higher rates of morbidity and mortality. People of color are receiving special attention in medical‚ social‚ and
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Racial Disparities in Corrections Over the last 40 years the prison population has increased 600 percent and it has negatively impacted young Black males‚ especially those living in socially disorganized neighborhoods (Childress‚ 2014). In 2001‚ Bonczar (2003) notes that Blacks accounted for nearly seventeen percent of individuals previously or currently incarcerated‚ which was six times more than White males. Besides having a higher chance of serving a prison term‚ African American are also likely
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It is important that one addresses health disparities in medically underserved communities because it can most importantly‚ improve quality of life as well as decrease health care cost nationwide. The decrease in health care cost will have an exponential effect on the economy by allowing more governmental funding opportunities to other important issues such as education‚ social security and other community services. By addressing health disparities within these communities it can allow for social
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Contents INTRODUCTION 1 BODY OF ESSAY 1 CONCLUSION 5 REFERENCES 6 INTRODUCTION This assignment is aiming to develop an essay analysing the reason of increasing waiting time in mental health hospitals and causative reasons behind this increase in waiting period. This essay will reflecting on various factors which collectively develop mental health services like psychiatrist‚ mental health nurses‚ mental asylums‚ funding‚ new management approaches‚ availability of rooms etc. This is a secondary
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In the United States‚ institutionalized discrimination occurs everyday. According to Aguirre and Turner (2010) it is both subtle and complex. Because discrimination based on race is illegal‚ many acts of institutionalized discrimination are informal; a company‚ school‚ government‚ or other public institution does not formally write them in a policy. “Yet individual acts of informal discrimination are so widespread in many communities that discrimination is informally institutionalized even in the
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of gender/racial discrimination and sexual harassment against leading IT company Microsoft. It explores in detail the treatment meted out to female employees in the company’s initial years and the measures Microsoft took to improve the work culture of the organization. The case also discusses the lawsuits against Microsoft that allege racial discrimination‚ and analyzes the implications of such changes for the company. Issues: » Factors that contribute to discrimination and harassment
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and 4 days off. This amounted to some working days coinciding with the employee’s religious holy day. Constructive discharge is a legal term meaning that one actually quit his job‚ but meeting certain conditions such as an employer violating discrimination or harassment; laws triggers the legal system to deem the termination as without good cause. A voluntary quit greatly reduces the strength of one’s legal rights. There are several reasons that constructive discharge would not apply to Mr. Gaut’s
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Reading Kate Chopin’s ’Story of an Hour’ leaves on reader’s mind a strong theme of the gender disparity present in the institution of marriage. The narrative about a woman’s sorrowful state and life under her authoritarian husband introduces Mrs. Mallard first in the exposition paragraph as having a ’heart trouble’ which requires ’great care’(pg. 15). It is quite ambiguous as to whether the trouble is physical or emotional. Even so‚ Chopin uses this trouble as a way of symbolizing the suffering
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