Women and Social Mobility
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1. Discuss women and social mobility.
Social mobility is the movement of individual in the terms of one's social status in a society, often defined in terms of occupation and income. There are upward and downward mobility. (www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Social_mobility) Certain social factors, like gender, determine whether women and men will move up or down the social class ladder. For example looking at the labor statistics, women are less likely to get promotions, which are believed to be one of the key factors that hinder upward social mobility at work. Another factor to consider is the type of job. Women often ...
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