Diversity Organizations



Diversity Organizations

Introduction

The feminist movement in the United States consolidated rapidly due to the socio-political and economic characteristics of American society. From a political system democratic theory, feminism was born linked to Protestant religious reform movements advocating moral regeneration of society and abolitionism. The significant female participation in humanitarian movements for the abolition of slavery quickly helped the awareness of women. The analogy between slaves without rights and women was evident. This discussion will highlight the status of women in the United States throughout history and the status of women in the U.S. today. In addition, the discussion will also give consideration to the social status of GLBT people through history.

Discussion

In the United States today there are more working women than men. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the female is already two-thirds of the workforce in ten of the fifteen sectors destined to expand more in the future (Miron, Urschel, Mathis & Tornquist, 2010). The economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has spared women and disproportionately hit men: four newly unemployed, three are males. All 'peak of the recession in the construction sector have evaporated 117,000 jobs per month, the manufacturing sector has laid off 2.1 million people, while demand grew in the most female-dominated professions, such as health care and public relations . Besides being the majority of the population, women are making their way into virtually all sectors of civil society.

They are already the majority in universities and receive almost 60 percent of American and European degrees combined. Not only that. Two out of three of the major American television news anchorman (ABC and CBS) are women. In addition to watching more television, and read more books, women are subscribed to several newspapers of men.

Even today, we witness a true reversal of roles, and many engagements are broken because the woman is not considered a "good catch. This revolution is due to the fact that the graduates, to which are the best jobs, are now mainly women. After having been ruled for decades by the campus, the students became the majority for the first time in U.S. universities after 1978, due to the claims of the feminist movement and the collapse of the male members, after the end of the Vietnam War (Kearney & Gebert, 2009). Today, the percentage of girls in American colleges is 57 percent, while the males are 43 percent.

LGBT stands for Lesbian, ...