Sunday, April 10, 2011

Finding Paragraph #2

I want to know how far males and females have come over the years.

Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972 states that there should be no discrimination. Not only in education but in sports, jobs, careers and more. The reason why there are no set rules that males and females cannot do a specific thing is due to this amendment. If this amendment was never made then things would remain the same as they did in the early 1900's. Males did the harder work while the women did the easier work. Thanks to this amendment there are female football teams, male tennis players, and female hockey teams.
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/titleix.htm

One of my current teachers, Mrs. Koegel, told us in my College 105 class that she used to be a principle of a school. When she would go to the conferences and meetings, she would be the only female principle out of the males. She said that the men would make fun of her because being a priciple is not a lady's place to be. She did not let there words affect her. After several years, some of her female friends became principles so that left her not being the only female. The male priciples could not argue any more since she was no longer the only female. Now there is no problem with male and females both being principles. Thanks to people like Mrs. Koegel. I got this information from Mrs. Koegel that works with Horry Georgetown Technical College of Conway.

Women have really upped there game since the 1900's. In 1979 women only made 62% as much as the men did. The 2008 statistics show that women make 80% as much as men do. This is just an average on how much women make compared to there male competitions. Some jobs let women earn up to  97% of what the men do. This is still not quite 100% but statistics do show that women are more likely to quit. They also say that women are less work experienced than males are. Just being a house wife, the percentage has changed. It may not be high but from 1987 to 2008 the percentage went from 18% to 26%. We have made progress and intend to keep going including or not including the obsticles. http://thefastertimes.com/selfandsociety/2010/05/23/how-far-have-women-come-really/

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