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HIV/AIDS, Women's Human Rights and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: The principal obstacles for the implementation of the Declaration in Georgia
... of the Declaration of Commitment in the countries submitted to UNAIDS upon the request of the UN Secretary-General to the 189 Member States. Out of these States ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Gender Role of Women in Society
... secretary of labor, was visiting a friend, she suddenly heard the clanging of fireengines close-by. Rushing out to the street, Perkins saw the top floors of ... Union League, an organization founded in theUnited States in 1903. Initially, the WTUL hoped to ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
The Women's Movement
... pay); Della Nicholas (Elliot) (assistant secretary of the NSW Clerks Union for five years and secretary of the Trade Union Equal Pay ... women took advantage of 1957 being the 50th anniversary of women exercising their right to vote in that state. This had ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
An politcal arguement of sexual harrasment. Refers to Katha Pollitt's article 'Kissing & Telling'
... They do not exactly have secretaries to bribe with raises yet, or wives to beat. When I think of violence the first thing ... grader who received death threats does not even clearly state what kind of hate was involved. It could have been sexual harassment, ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Gender Equity: Equal Pay and Childcare
... of industries and institutions traditionally have been closed to women. Twenty-five years ago, who would have thought that a woman could be the secretary of the states ... be addressed. A year later, the passage of the Civil Rights Act included employment ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
This is an essay about the New Women's Movement in the United States that emerged in the 1960s. The question: What did the New Women's Movement seek to achieve and was it successful?
... of twenty-four-hour-a-day child-care centers' . Above all they hoped to end class discrimination, the notion that instantly positioned women as housekeepers, secretaries ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Women’s Issues There are many social issues facing humanity today,
... of society. During the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995, The United Nations Secretary, General Boutros Boutros-Ghali stated ... of state controls on trade and investment, the disappearance of tariff barriers and the spread of ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Does Feminism Provide a Positive Direction for Society?
... raises many questions. Is it that women freely prefer to be secretaries, nurses, and kindergarten teachers, and men freely prefer to be executives ... It must be acceptable in the United States for fathers to take leave from work to care of a new baby, to stay ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Gender Issues
... that women are extremely useful in combat. Defense secretary Dick Chaney stated "Women have made a major contribution to the ... romance novels women are typically portrayed as the victims of male aggression. Perhaps the most significant media influence is ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Women in Society
... of 40. Even she had to take the hard road to make it to the top, starting out as a secretary ... was because of her age, although her bosses didn't say that was the reason, stating that ... , she 'would sleep all night on two secretarial chairs so I could get up at ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies