The Feminization of the Workplace

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This paper discusses that the workplace has been changed by the large increase in the number of women in the work place. The author points out that, whereas even just a few decades ago, mostly unmarried women worked outside the home and mostly in a few specific industries, nowadays this has changed. The paper stresses that everyone has benefited as a result of the consequent policy changes.

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"In the past several decades, much scholarly debate, sociological thought, and political rhetoric has been devoted to the question of whether one's habit, desires and abilities are divided along gender lines. The consensus seems to be, in general, that they are not - that what we call `gender differences' are, in fact, the result of nurture rather than nature. Generations of parents have devoted themselves to proving (with varying degrees of success) that a little girl's preference for playing with dolls rather than guns is not a foregone conclusion but the result of social conditioning, and that the same it true of a boy's proclivity for guns."

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