ETH/125 | Diversity Organization | Margarita Sifuentes | | | 5/16/2013 |

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When you look at the status of women throughout the United States there has been up’s and down’s.
When you look back at the earlier years women were looked at as having a low standard life versus men having a higher standard. In the 19th century time started changing for women; they begin to fight for equal rights. In the 20th century there were a few laws that passed stating that women should be treated the same as everyone else. womeninushistory.tripod.com

Among the areas of focus for women’s equality in American today are still many issue that plague
Women and keep them from achieving equal status with men in the United States. Even though women in the
Untied States have made big advances in every field. Yet discrimination still exits, doing a man jobs once regarded as too physically strenuous. Women have become sanitation workers, police officers, fire fighters, and coal miners. In past 40 years women have come a long way, women now can earn the majority of conferred degrees overall but earn degrees than men in science and technology. Women are working more and the number of women and men in the labor force has nearly equalized in recent years. At all levels of educations, women earned about 75 percent of what their male counterparts earned 2009.
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This day more and more women are delaying marriage, and fewer women are married than in the past.
More women than in the past have never had a child, and women are giving birth to their first child at older ages. When they do have children, women are having fewer children. Where both husband and wife are employed , employed wives spend more time in household activates than do employed husbands.

Femininity and masculinity or one’s gender identity refers to the degree to which person see themselves

as masculine or feminine knowing, what it means to be a man or women in society. As children we either play with Barbie doll or G.I Hoe action figures. But the questions that arise are these childhood past times actually contributing to unrealistic portrayals of women and men? For decades, critics have concerned these toys for their potentially damaging effect on child’s psyche.

Although GLBT people share with the rest of social the full range of health risks, they also face a profound and poorly understood set of additional health risk due largely to social shame. While the experience of this type of shame can differ across sexual and gender minorities, stigmatization touches the lives of all this groups in important ways and thereby affects their health. In contrast to members of many other marginalized groups, GLBT individuals frequently are invisible to health care researchers and providers. Often exacerbates the deleterious effects of stigma. The achievements of GLBT people over the past few decades in building a community infrastructure that address their health needs, as well as obtaining