In the patriarchal (male-dominated) societies around the world, women have been viewed as the “weaker sex,” who needed protection from the rough-and-tumble world outside of their homes. Such beliefs were used as justifications for preventing women from voting and holding public office. We believe all women have the right to a fair education.
In the cultures that portrayed wives as appendages of their husbands, women had often been invisible to the law.
The ability of women to use the law to fight gender discrimination in employment, education, domestic relations, and other spheres is a recent development across the world. We can help with providing legal advice in areas of family law.
As modern society has made clear, women have the ability to perform with equal skills and succeed in every endeavor engaged in by men — including employment, athletics, academics and politics. Yet discrimination on the basis of gender has a long history across the world and even here in the US, and its residual effects still operate to keep women’s salaries lower and the opportunities fewer in the employment realm.
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I am a member of the board of directors for an award-winning non-profit organization that seeks to advance equality and justice. We work closely with people who use and need our services, in order to realize the goals of our mission.
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With the inclusion of women in the workforce and an increasing number of women-owned companies, there has been a lot of progress made towards achieving gender equality.
In the past, gender roles were very clear-cut. Men were supposed to be strong, while women were supposed to be delicate, kind, and nurturing. However, as society changes so does the gender roles that are expected of people based on their sex.
The gender pay gap is a result of the different types of work done by men and women. Women tend to be more involved in lower-paid jobs while men are more involved in higher-paid jobs.
Flexible work practices are no longer an indulgence but a driver towards equality in the workplace. Used wisely, there is the possibility of breaking down exclusions, raising up marginalised groups and building a robust inclusive Read more…
Teachers are best placed to identify signs of human trafficking, seeing children and young people on a daily basis more often than other professionals outside the home. While schools themselves are typically safe havens, they Read more…
Women throughout the world are taking back control of their finances in a society where financial knowledge has traditionally favoured males. Each of us has a unique path to financial independence, but the end goal Read more…