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The Working Woman, 2006.
An analysis of a few articles to do with the Canadian working woman.
2,455 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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In this paper the author looks in-depth at a few articles regarding the role of women in the Canadian workforce. The author starts by highlighting the changes in the attitude of the Canadian workforce to women and how the gap differentiating men and women has dropped significantly over the past few years. The author then goes on to discuss a few named articles that relate to working women. In conclusion the author looks at the value of the unpaid worker and how they can be evaluated. Introduction Article 2: Worth More Than We Earn: Fair Pay as a Step Toward Gender Equity, By, Ida L. Castro. Article 2:Growth of Women Led Business in Canada Article 3: Unpaid Labor Counts in Canada Census Article 4: We Spend More Time Working For Nothing Than We Do for Money
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"Women have made dramatic gains in the past few decades, both in education and in the workplace. More women are attending and graduating from college than in the past; equal proportions (almost one quarter) of young women and men (between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-four) now have college degrees. Women are moving into professions traditionally dominated by men, although job segregation and a gender-earnings gap are still evident."
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The Working Woman, 2002.
A look at problems the working woman has to face.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 12 sources, $ 89.95
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This ten-page undergraduate paper discusses problems that women face in business, such as sexual harassment and lower pay than their male counterparts.
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Late 19th Century Working Class Women, 2008.
This paper discuses literature about research describing working class women in the late 19th century, especially in Montreal and Paris, Ontario.
2,090 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper explains that, in Bettina Bradbury's research, between 1861 and 1891, mainly French-Canadian women are found living and working in a harsh way, which demanded general resourcefulness to maintain their families' survivals. The author points out that, in contrast, Joy Parr's study of Ontario's industrial towns after 1880 reveals women's closer connections to the waged labor economy. The paper stresses that Bradbury's depiction of working class women in Montreal is convincing and speaks to Canadian women in terms beyond economics or feminism. The author found that, despite much theory referring to positions of gender as somehow unitary, there are dangers in presuming the realities of working class women in the later 19th century. The paper concludes that this literature helps interpret a contemporary Canadian society, which still tends to disadvantage women.
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Introduction
Situation versus Culture
Reflection
Last Remarks
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"Few widows received pension incomes for their husbands had often not had pensions in the forms of employment available to them. A predictable aspect of law so disadvantageous to women was the woman to turn to prostitution for survival or those running brothels or taverns. Joy Parr's work refers to Paris, Ontario and the demand for mainly British factory hands, often women, who were already skilled contributors to factory life before emigration. The idea of women working beyond the home as losing their reputations prevailed in much attention to 'protecting' women in Paris Ontario, as in the Penmans company's payment of quite low wages but also providing recreational and health care services."
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The Lives of Working Women, 2004.
Reviews four separate books on the trials and tribulations of working women in the 19th century.
4,325 words (approx. 17.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 114.95
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The four books, "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, "Emily: Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman" by Emily French, "Prairie Voices" by Joanna Stratton, and "Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey" by Lillian Schlissel, are reviewed and summarized by this paper. The depiction in these books of the hardships and sufferings of American women in the 19th century is the focus of the paper. The story of each of the heroines presented in the books and the myriad difficulties they had to endure are examined, and the hardiness of character, both physical and emotional, needed to survive the time period is described.
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"Elinore Pruitt Stewart was a writer whose life transcended the common expectations of what a 19th century woman was capable of achieving. Although a woman, and alone, and a mother, Pruitt became a thriving part of the roughness of homesteading life in the American West. Part of this was due to necessity. Pruitt often said she found herself doing work that most women did not do, because, in her own words, she did not have enough money to hire a man. Often she found herself traveling to places that ?ladies? were not supposed to go to, out of pure need or the needs of her children. Yet Stewart also admits that her own stubbornness and fortitude drove her into many of her ?adventures.? Stewart states in her own prose that her project of homesteading was designed to prove something about female endurance and ability, rather than simply to sustain herself and her family."
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Working Women, 2001.
A study of the sociological effects of the working woman on society.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper deals with the concept of working mothers and the issues which surround it. The increasing number of mothers, especially those of young children, who are moving into the labor market is a feature of contemporary society which continues to exert a major influence on the structure of relationships and families. This paper addresses these changes and discusses what effects this issue will have in the future. It also examines the way in which society has been affected by the issue of working mothers, and discusses the controversy and debate surrounding the possible effects on child development. The paper focuses on the importance of childcare and the problems which presently face society over this issue, as well as the continued debate over sexual inequality, both within the family and society in general.
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"Thankfully, the ?cereal packet? image of the family is on its way out yet, according to sociologists, the sexual inequality associated with assigning men the role of economic provider and women as the child rearer and homemaker, is still very mush in existence. These social stereotypes remain in spite of the fact that, within the last few decades, there has been a sharp increase in the number of mothers deciding to venture outside the home and into paid employment. Statistics show that the level of mothers in paid employment has risen from one in eight in the 1950's to a present day estimate of over fifty percent (Hoffman 285) and, according to Reich (1994), by 1994 women were found to compose forty-five percent of the entire labor force."
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Working Women, Past to Present, 2002.
A look at the impact working women have had on society.
2,695 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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This paper discusses how far women have come in the workplace. The jobs of women past compared to the jobs of women today. It discusses efforts such as Take Your Daughter to Work Day and the impact they have had on women?s lives.
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"Throughout history women have held power positions such as queens, wives, lawyers, doctors and ambassadors to other nations. Women held some of the most powerful and hard working positions in biblical times. In pre-industrial society women worked right beside their husbands and children. Many believe that women?s status in the workforce improved dramatically during World War I and World War II. The industrial boom of the late 19th and 20th centuries helped many women to enter the workforce. Although today women are entering more occupations than ever, there are still more glass ceilings to be broken."
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Working Women, 2005.
This paper provides a feminist and sociological analysis of Canadian working women.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 124.95
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The paper offers a feminist and sociological analysis of Canadian women that reflects the economic conditions and the psychological gender role allocations that have limited women to the household in a patriarchal Canadian society. The paper examines these facets of Canadian life and illustrates how one can see how women were up against immense odds when seeking entrance into a more independent role away from marriage and into the world of business. The paper explains that these new roles evolved from the 1950s into the modern era of the 1990s and the 21st century.
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"The basis of this sociological and feminist study on women in the workplace will analyze the historical progress of women in the family and economic structures that had limited them in the past. By offering new insights into the development of women workers in the Canadian business world, one can objectively rationalize the competence and competitive nature of women in relation to men. By realizing the past gender roles normatively associated with women in the household, working women have taken great steps in the past 25 years in becoming a competing force to males in a patriarchal business orientated system."
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Working Women, Inside and Outside the Home, 2002.
This paper discusses the lives of childrearing women who work outside of the home and women who don't.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper focuses on the choices women make. The author explores the workload division between them and men. The paper projects the future.
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Working Women after World War I, 2002.
An analysis of the impact of World War I on women in the work force in Europe.
2,193 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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This paper examines how the end of World War I saw the first crucial advancement toward female enfranchisement. It looks at how, in the first half of the 20th century, the capitalist industrial revolution in the production of textiles showed the way to an augmented degree of production. It discusses how this industry, with larger-scale food processing, as well as garment manufacturing and non-revolutionized domestic service, presented wage jobs for women, first and foremost. It shows how, as the capitalist market economy developed, women were brought into wage work only in certain separated segments. It evaluates how, though even badly compensated with inadequate or interrupted work eras, single women almost certainly united somewhat during this period and how married women, nonetheless, continued to put up with the most important burden of non-market production, raising families.
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"In speaking of women, an association less structurally organized than the working class but also a combination of very varied strands. Women prepared within political parties, as well as trade unions. They shaped feminist associations, civil rights associations, as well as community-based reform coalitions addressing subjects such as abortion and birth control, housing, prices, public health, alcohol, suffrage, and hygiene. Most prominently, it was the changing memberships, as well as addressees, the impulsive expressions for problems and reasons, the regular emergence of new actors and vanguards that made the women's association emerge exaggeratedly new, considerably varied, and also quite incompetent (Donald, 1963)."
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Working-class Women, 1999.
Examining this phenomena in terms of socioeconomic inequities & oppression, alienation from feminism, work, marriage & family, education and socialization.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 39.95
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"Working class women internalize their own oppression. These women learn the stereotypes that define their lives at an early age. Working class women strive to maintain the traditional feminine ideal while simultaneously struggling with the limitations of class.
To a significant extent, the problems of working class women persist because they have not participated in the financial gains of the women's movement. Middle class women reaped the greatest benefits. They dramatically increased their presence in professional fields such as medicine, law, and banking: "in little more than a decade women increased their representation among the most prestigious and lucrative professions by 300 to 400 percent" (Ehrenreich, 1990, p. 217). Granted, middle class women still encounter the "glass ceiling" in their efforts to.."
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Work Opportunities for Women during WW ll in Canada, 2008.
A review of the work opportunities for women in Canada prior to and after World War ll.
2,445 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 74.95
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The paper relates that at the start of World War ll women were denied entry to positions in the workforce that were previously thought of as reserved only for men. Thus, the earning capacity of women was considerably lower than that of men and they were unable to accede to positions of economic or political power as well. The paper continues by highlighting that, as a result of the male task force being involved in fighting a war, vacancies in the work situation became available to Canadian women and thus it became apparent that women proved to be as efficient as men in a previous male-dominated areas. Encouraged by capitalism and the ruling powers and the press, Canadian women were now holding major positions which the government attempted unsuccessfully to reverse after the war. The paper concludes that WWI helped women realize their capabilities and achieve equality with their male counterparts.
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"In this analysis, it is important to bear in mind that women in Canada have always worked, in one way or another. Feminist scholars such as Bradbury have eloquently dismissed the myth that dual-income families are a new phenomenon, a product of the women's movement in the last few decades. In her analysis of working class families in the period from the 1860s to the 1890s - the time of the industrial revolution in Canada - Bradbury shows that even in that time, married Canadian women were actively involved in a broad range of income-generating activities, such as taking in boarders. At the same time, they were also expected to handle all domestic labour. Bradbury reproduces a cartoon showing a woman on her knees, doing the washing, while her husband eats dinner. The caption reads: "You complain, my poor husband, or your ten hours of labour. Yet I have been working for fourteen hours, and I have not yet finished my day." Bradbury also makes the point that women's labour was essential, and that if most families had relied on the husband's earnings alone, "poverty, even starvation, would have been chronic." Moreover, men would not have had the strength to labour at the factories for ten hours, and women would not have been well enough nourished to produce viable babies. In short, the "working class could not have reproduced itself."
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Women Who Work Outside the Home, 2006.
A study of the trends of the working woman.
1,649 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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In this paper the trends of the working woman are examined. The paper looks at the history of the working woman from when it first became acceptable for women to work outside of the home until modern day where there are dual incomes in a family. The paper also looks at the effects of two working parents on a family.In conclusion the paper surmises that the trends of the working family will continue to change due to the changing nature of society.
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"The stress which results of having a lack of control over demands and excessive demands coupled with the family stress can cause overload, role conflict in dual-earner families, and the strain of the work-family balance (Katz & Piotrkowski, 1983; Hughes, Galinski, & Morris, 1992). With the upward movement of class, job stressors change somewhat. The balance of family boundaries to workplace demands, such as bringing home work and working long hours are what managers and executives must determine (Frone, Russell, & Cooper, 1992)."
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Native Woman as a Work Force in Canada, 2008.
A examination of the role played by native women in Canada prior to and after the World War l.
1,592 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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The paper is divided into two sections, which deals primarily with the work role of native women in Canada in the pre industrial period, and secondly with work done at home, to work done in the labor force, relating to payment and pensions. The paper relates that initially all women were involved in commercial activities however certain positions were reserved for men. The paper explains the division of labor among men and women and gives the reasoning behind this division and how the situation changed after the war. The factors dealing with remuneration for women is explained in detail with reasons and comparisons.
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"During the early industrialization period, women always "earned less than 60 percent of what men earned, even when...they worked longer hours" (Wilson 60). The prevalent attitude was that older men should be responsible for skilled work. Certain jobs became the domain of men so that women could be excluded; when women performed certain work, it lost status. Eventually, female sweated labor, as a result of poor working conditions and workplace abuses, endangered male incomes (McIntosh 143). At the same time, only men's work was eased by mechanization. Factory work allowed women more free time but eventually defined life for single women (Unit 2 26). However, while men as breadwinners worked in factories, married women were confined to the home (Unit 2 28) but still earned money by such activities as baking and crafts. As industrialization proceeded, women were viewed as consumers rather than producers (Unit 2 29). Along with factory work, the main employment available to women was domestic work."
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Women Working in Trade Unions, 2008.
An analysis of the barriers that women face in becoming active members of trade unions and the steps they have taken to overcome these barriers.
2,016 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 0 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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This paper discusses the barriers that women face to becoming active members in trade unions. The paper then describes the strategies and methods women have used to overcome these barriers in order to press for change in the union movement, raise issues of concern to women, and obtain more equal representation. Finally, the paper evaluates to what extent these actions been successfully translated into negotiating collective agreements that reflect issues of concern to women.
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"Yet another barrier is that women are all too often excluded from jobs considered "male" - which are almost invariably the better paid jobs. For example, Luxton and Corman (1991) document the extraordinary struggle that women had to wage to get jobs in the steel industry with Stelco (the Steel Company of Canada). In this struggle they were backed by the United Steelworkers of America Local 105, as well as an ad hoc committee. Luxton and Corman (1991) highlight the sheer sexism which conspired to keep women out of these higher-paying jobs. All of this suggests that true pay equity will not be achieved until society itself is fundamentally restructured under feminist principles - and none of us should make the mistake of holding our breath waiting for that."
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Women in The Work Force, 2003.
Examines stress factors for women in the work force.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 47.95
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Discusses stress factors, the necessity for a second income in families, the impact on mothers and children of mothers working full-time, and the high risk factors affecting women at work. Also addresses stress from workplace violence and job conditions that lead to stress.
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"Now, more than at any other time in the American historical period, women make up a large percentage of the labor force. Yet, as late as 1991, the Department of Labor records that "women represented 63% of all persons 18 and over who were living below ..."
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