Women's rights
The rights and status of women in the Canadian society have improved considerably in the last century. However, gender equality is still being threatened . Blatantly sexist laws and practices are slowly being eliminated while social perceptions of "women's roles" sometimes continue to stagnate and even degrade back to traditional ideals. It is these social perceptions that challenge the evolution of women as equal on all levels. The staggering changes for women that have come over a few generations in family life, in religion, in government, in employment, in education did not just happen spontaneously. Women themselves made these changes happen, very deliberately. Women have not been the passive recipients of miraculous changes in laws and human nature. Generations of women have come together to affect these changes in the most democratic ways: through meetings, petition drives, lobbying, public speaking, and non-violent resistance. They have worked very deliberately to create a better world, and they have succeeded hugely. It was not so long ago where the history of mankind included repeated inju
Today, In the world of work, large numbers of women have entered the professions, the trades, and businesses of every kind. We have opened the ranks of the clergy, the military, the newsroom. More than three million women now work in occupations considered "non-traditional" until very recently. Women take important places in the government, in the education system, and in the judicial system. Not only have they come to be self dependant, but wherever they go they gain much more respect and dignity than ever before. Affirmative action is yet another issue. Is help in making up for past discrimination appropriate? Do qualified women now face a level playing field? The mommy track matter belongs to a popular set of issues of today's woman world. Should businesses accommodate women's family responsibilities, or should women compete evenly for advancement with men, most of whom still assume fewer family obligations? Pornography is also a very large topic of today. Is it degrading, even dangerous, to women, or is it simply a free speech issue? How about sexual harassment? Just where does flirting leav
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Approximate Word count = 749
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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