Equality of wages in Australia is of high concern, and has been for a long period of time. On no account of Australia's history, have women and men's wages ever been equal, rather they have always had a significant gap between them. This has seen women as undervalued, causing a lot of disc...

A greater number of jobs available in the service sector, globalisation, and the feminist movements are some of the reason that there has been a steady increase of Australian women entering the workforce. This reality coupled with the dramatic rise in divorce rates over the last few years has seen...

Women have traditionally played the inferiors roles in history when compared against males. Women have always had the natural 'mother/housewife role' in families since before colonial times. However men have had the role of being the sole breadwinners of the family and hence had the power...

In today's society, people are becoming more aware of the problem of stereotypes. Although we are meant to live in a fluid society, the portrayal of rigid stereotypes by the media does not help to reduce this problem. Many issues involving sexual status and gender stereotypes have been disputed, in...

In this essay I will explore the common images of nursing and discuss how these images can influence and reflect the status of nursing within society. I conducted a series of interviews with five people under the age of twenty-five to determine some of the images of nursing, their negative and posi...