SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Ageism, Chronic Condition, Walt Whitman Rostow
Document Summary
Comprises the policies and programs designed to create opportunities for, and to further the achievements of, historically disadvantages groups in the labour force. Setting targets and quotas for hiring and promotion of members of discriminated groups in the past, one aspect of employment equity. Principle of equal treatment of all groups in the paid labour force, seek to dismantle barriers and alter workplace cultures to create opportunities for and further the advancement of historically disadvantaged groups. Seek to equalize the wage rates offered for different jobs that are of comparable worth in terms of knowledge and skill. Refers to both the body of knowledge about the causes and nature of women"s subordination to men in society, and agendas for removing that subordination. Inequalities between men and women in the distribution of prestige, power and material well-being, inequalities in relations to male domination and female subordination.
