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Gender Inequality in Chinese Society
“How do you balance your role as a wife and your role as an employee?” This is a typical question women face during a job interview in China. Interestingly, there is never the same question for men asking the balance between being a husband and being an employee. Under the harmony claiming women and men are standing in an equal position, society implicitly presses women to do a multiple-choice question related to their desired role. Ironically, although it is called multiple choice, there is never an “s” following behind the word “choice”, simply meaning that women only are allowed to choose one and give up the rest.
Being a wife or a mother becomes a disadvantage or even a defect, making women less competitive in current society. Just because women possess the ability to be pregnant and have children, it does not indicate that they lose the ability to fulfill their works successfully. However, many people tend to wear monocular glasses for seeing only one side of the matter, and then use that one side to generalize. Therefore, as time goes on, this ideology has planted a seed in everyone’s heart. People acquiesce in its existence and admit its correctness. The transformation from responsibility to liability boosts fear among women, especially for those younger ones. They are willing to shelve their special ability for exchanging a better opportunity in their career path. This phenomenon does not merely reveal current gender inequality problems, but also carries imbalances in more social aspects such as population ageing and corresponding measures forcing gender inequality to fall into a worse status.
Undeniably, there are still a great amount of excellent wives and mothers working diligently in their workplaces. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of women suffering from unequal treatment when applying for jobs will not be erased by these cases. Disapproving voices may come out saying that women make their own choices. Yes, women are ostensibly free to make their own choices under the hint of society. Let’s take a step back, should this unsettling multiple choice really need to exist? Instead of focusing on “how to balance women’s roles”, what is the so-called balance and is there a true balance? Or is it just employers finding an excuse for refusing women or seeking a promise claiming their “loyalty” towards job positions? Innumerable problems that are pulled out by one single problem are worth pondering.

Yaxin Chen

J. Xia

The Great Depression in 1920s had a disastrous influence on Canada. Suffering from the Great Depression, Canadians faced the problem such as unemployment, starvation and increasing suicide rate. In order to save Canada from the Great Depression, Canadian government did lots of change and published lots of policies. The government’s policies such as creating work campus or deportation were not very effective, but Canadian government was successful in its attempts to deal with the Great Depression to the extent of distributing pogey, rising tariffs and signed treaty with the U.S.

First, at that time, the job insurance was not existed yet, so the government decided to distribute pogey to their citizens. The pogey is the money that was distributed by the government to those people who did not have a job and income to support their life. During the Great Depression, the rate of unemployment rose a lot and numerous workers lost their jobs so they had no income to make their families survive. The data showed that 1 in 5 Canadians had to depend on the pogey to survive. Whereas, the pogey was lower than the lowest wage in the country and if people wanted to get the pogey, they had to wait for a long time and admit that they had no ability to gain money by themselves in public. This request was ashamed for most men so they stop to get pogey from the government and tried to gain money by themselves. Although someone doubt that the way was too cruel, it is a right method to stimulate people to find jobs instead of depend on the government. Therefore, distributing pogey was a right decision made by the Canadian government.

Second, the government rose the tariffs in order to improve the economy in their own country. The Great Depression in Canada was influenced by the increasing tariffs in the America so their goods such as wheat and newsprints could not be exported. Therefore, after Bennett became the Prime Minister in 1930, he made a decision which was increase Canadian tariffs as well. After increasing the tariffs, Canadians would buy the goods that were produced by their own country instead of buying foreign goods. As a result, it is another way to improve and protect Canadian’s own economy during the Great Depression.

Last but not least, after King became the Prime Minister again in 1935, he promised that he would equalize the distribution to different provinces and set better services in those poor provinces. His most influential decision was to signed treaty with the United States. Promising a much-desired trade treaty with the U.S., the Mackenzie King government passed the 1935 Reciprocal Trade Agreement. Some experts said it marked the turning point in Canadian-American economic relations and reversed the disastrous trade war of 1930-1931, lowing tariffs, and yielding a dramatic increase in trade, and it revealed to the prime minister and the president that they could work together well.

In brief, the Canadian government did a lot since the Great Depression happened in 1920s. The Prime Minister changed twice and both of them did certain contribution for the recovery of Canada. The government was highly attended and got lots of pressures. To the extent of distributing pogey, rising tariffs and signing treaty with the U.S. was the effective way that Canadian government succeed to deal with the great depression.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resources:

1. notebook
2. https://historymanilya.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/bennetts-during-the-great-depression/

 

Can we eliminate child labour? Though it is a desirable goal, the fact remains that in the given Socio-economic scenario that is prevalent in our country, it is virtually impossible to do away with child labour. One cannot dispute the fact that employers exploit children by paying them much less than what they would pay to an adult and the future of the working children is ruined as they are not able to attend schools and get educated for a better future.

 

But when one considers the economic compulsions of the families which force the children to work, one will be compelled to admit that elimination of child labour will be a distant dream unless the socio-economic status of these families is improved.

Realizing the harm caused by child labour, the Indian Goverment makes laws to protect children from exploitation at work and to improve their working conditions. Besides, a comprehensive law called Child Labour Act 1986, was promulgated to prohibit employment of children in certain hazardous occupations and processes.

In 1987, the Indian Government formulated National Policy on Child Labour to protect the interests of children and focus on general development programmes for the benefit of children. As a part of this policy National Child Labour Projects had been set up in different parts of the country to rehabilitate child labour. Under these projects,special schools are established to provide non-formal education,vocational training, supplementary nutrition, etc. to children who are withdrawn from employment.

Through elimination of child labour is an impossible task in the current socio-economic scenario, the Indian government is committed to the task of ensuring that no child remains illiterate, hungry and without medical care. When this ideal situation will be achieved is a million dollar question.

 

Student: Tushar Bhure

Extremely interesting indeed,

Are cases of narcotic drugs;

But even they get horribly boring,

When the arguing advocate bugs…

 

While the utterly monotonous advocates,

Go from bad to worse;

I feel it immensely profitable,

To dedicate to ganja, a verse…

 

Let me tell you earnestly a very vital fact,

Ganja is actually defined in the NDPS Act.

 

It means, of the cannabis plant, the fruiting or flowering tops,

But if you have only seeds or leaves, don’t worry about the cops…

 

In the event you have only its leaves, stalks or seeds,

Seek the protection of s. 2(iii)(b) for your wonderful deeds!

 

The Rajasthan and Kerala High Courts with the definition seem fine,

Even the Hon’ble Supreme Court nodded its approval, in early 2009…

 

But these other things abovementioned, make up the plant of cannabis,

You of course can be punished then, for its cultivation, that is…

 

While for having cannabis (hemp), you shall face a sentence,

The mere possession of Bhang leaves is decidedly not an offence!

 

To the cops – In case you seize alleged ganja for example,

Forget not to send to a chemical analyst, a neatly sealed sample…

 

When your possession of ganja is proved beyond reasonable doubt,

Behind the bars you go vide ss. 8/20 NDPS Act that you did flout…

 

So depressingly bored I was,

Sitting in this courtroom;

My mind was really tortured,

Submerging steadily in gloom…

 

But I am, after this poetic break, so euphoric and full of bliss,

Hell! NOW I know why so many take to cannabis!

 

Student: Manali Gogate