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The question is why are women being treated as second to men
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Feminism
Introduction.
Feminism is the term used by movements that endorse women to be treated as equals to men. This is what logic should dictate but for many years, women have been treated as juniors to men. It has been evidenced by the differences in employment and educational opportunities, voting rights and seeking elective positions. It is true that women have been treated as second class or last resort solutions. This still continues in countries that consider women as children or do not give support to principles that support women in the society. The question is why are women being treated as second to men? Feminism shows that women are same with men thus the element of equality is brought into play.
Authors View on Feminism.
The author of retro-wife argues that a house wife cannot be a feminist. A number of reasons bring this into light. A house wife will want to stay at home and take care of the children. They will also go on unending shopping sprees financed by their husbands who are busy at work trying to make ends meet for the family. Feminism dictates that there ought to be equality between men and women. This equality involves equal financial contribution towards family expenses. Though it also calls for shared responsibility in taking care of the children, most women are not comfortable with their men looking after children arguing that they are more knowledgeable in this field. They argue that they have been practicing with dolls since childhood and now have perfected the skill.
Research has shown that men today view the ‘ideal’ man as someone who is not only successful … but also involved as a father, husband or partner thus shows how the modern man has embraced the issue of equality up to the household level. This will is normally regressed by the presence of house wives who consider homes to be their offices and portray a picture of a boss who wants to control the home forgetting it’s a union brought about by the man and her. House wives argue that the man should exert his authority at work and when he comes home things change because that is the wives’ space.
Tensions brought about by feminism have trickled down to homes. Women started their campaign for equal treatment at work now it has gone to homes. They brought action against employers seeking for higher pays which equal those of men. If we look at typical house wives, what they do is watch enterprising programs on television but do not adopt that knowledge and make something out of them to help their husband finance family bills. If they come up with something that brings income, most of the money is used for personal use on the assumption that my husband will pay for the bills.
During the recent recession, household incomes reduced significantly. Most housewives never helped their husbands fetch that extra coin though they maintained the same levels of consumption as before. They believe that their work is to sit with the children and dictate what they are going to eat, whom to play with and the husbands’ duty is to deliver the cheque by whatever means to the joint bank account they hold. This only furthers the fact that housewives cannot be termed as feminists.
It is with the above observations by the author that I agree house wives cannot back themselves with feminism unless they change and accept collective responsibility towards the well-being and development of the household. This can be achieved if they accept to change their ways and start working even if it’s on a part time basis and help the man with family finances. The man on the other hand should take charge and direct the wife on the path to follow towards the betterment of their family.
Conversation between authors on feminism.
The following is a conversation between two authors on feminism. They are Nancy and Leila.
Nancy; Feminism has been a contentious topic for a long time. The article has tackled important issues on the same but I feel like it should have considered Muslim ladies who still face a huge challenge in the war on feminism in their part of the world.
Leila; I agree with you on the issue of Islamic ladies, these ladies face the harshest form of inequality due to their customs, traditions and religion. This hampers them from engaging in activities that women across the world do. For example, in sports ladies compete in almost every discipline but you find Muslim ladies participating in one or two disciplines. In the past Olympic games, a lady from the far east had to compete in athletics only after a commission was set from her country to decide whether she could participate or not.
Nancy; I think culture plays the most important role in feminism today. Western culture allows women to air their views and be heard unlike our sisters in the Arab world who have to petition their husbands first before engaging in anything. This makes it impossible to attain equal rights and representation as men thus an impediment to feminism.
Leila; the author should have incorporated the fact that women are their own enemies. Feminism requires that women work together to improve their standards be it in the work place or any other endeavor.
Nancy; that is so right. It is like women make five steps towards feminism and then take six steps back. It is evidenced by the fact that women are competitive by nature. When they see their counter parts succeeding them will also do anything in their power to attain the same or greater success and even at times plot a downfall of the person.
Leila; This shows that unless women accept that they have to be united to realize the full effects of feminism, it will only remain as a dream. Unity will ensure that all women are enlightened with information that is necessary to move them to the next level.
Nancy; One other thing that is disorienting women on feminism is the questioning of whether they should really have been married. House wives perceive themselves as worthless especially if they were working before marriage and left their jobs to take care of their families. This is because they view themselves as not equals to their husbands since they don’t chip in on finances which is a major issue in relationships. Such thoughts make them be over submissive even to things that should be rejected just to please their husbands.
Leila; When we consider that self-questioning, women tend to hault on any project they were doing be it crotetching or gardening and drown in self-pity. They forget marriage is an institution with equal partners irrespective of who brings the money and who takes care of the family. Without either partner the family unit will not stand. Their questioning is totally wrong as it makes feminism harder to achieve.
Feminism Today and its Challenges.
Feminism today has taken a new twist in that it is not only the women who advocate for it but also men. This has led to better understanding of each partner’s role in the family circle. Today feminism incorporates equal contribution to the family including finances, spending time with the children, devoting time to the spouse and schedules for family retreats. With the adoption of feminism to the modern family, great strides are made towards family development.
The feminism issue should be viewed as a different institution where one party asses the performance of the other in accordance to agreed principles. This will ensure that no laxity is experienced in either party and also help in reducing conflicts as each person knows what they should do failure to which a privilege is withdrawn.
Despite the steps taken towards adopting feminism, a number of challenges are faced. These include tight working schedules in places of work thus reducing time to spend with families leaving the weekends as the only time parents can mingle with the children. Increase in general price of commodities has forced housewives to adopt methods that will ensure the family lives on a minimum budget thus wives have adopted the role of managers to husbands finances.
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Differences between waterfall and agile project management
ENTERPRISE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Differences between waterfall and agile project management:
Methodologies
Waterfall project management is distinguished by its sequential manner of operation. There are a number of phases that need to be followed before the success of the project is realized. One of the major drawbacks with this approach is that enough attention must be paid before moving to the next phase since there is no room for the revisit of the prior stage. This means that any identified change cannot be fixed and thus the program tends to be inefficient and unreliable.
Unlike waterfall project, agile project management is well known for its efficiency in operation. It creates emphasis on interactive principles in achieving it values and thus it tends to be more on principles than on the processes followed. Alterations on the development of the project are normally carried and this goes beyond making continuous evaluation on the project.
Applications
Waterfall programs are mostly utilized in manufacturing and construction fields. They are known for their vital contribution in these areas since the values of the products are known upon finalizing on it.
Agile projects have a wide utilization in the software fields and in websites development. This is the reason why for any development of software to be put in place, adaptive and innovation room is provided so as to check on the quality and any emerging alterations.
Operation
Plan and managerial aspects plays a major role in the success of a waterfall project. It is noticed that referencing is common and thus any change has to be made after the initial stage.
However, agile project ensures the value of the final quality
is of high standard and thus efficient and highly reliable approach.
Adaptations that a project manager should make in managing agile projects compared to the traditional waterfall projects:
Exploring
A good leader should embrace exploration so as to create room for feasible and achievable goals. To instill motivation in the workforce, an inspirational and creative leader is most appropriate since he makes it possible to set practicable goals. Recent research indicates that the agile leaders form the pillar for organization through encouraging the junior staffs in coping with the changing environment in their place of work.
Reflective
Agile leaders should possess imaginary mindset and adoptive practices to achieve the set goals. There are varying innovative ideas that the workforce bears and not unless they are included in the decision making forums, they end und up been unutilized and as well as creating the spirit of detest. Seriousness and implementation of inclusiveness in the managerial processes should be adhered to.
Adaptations that the PMO should make when handling agile projects/programs in contrast to handling traditional waterfall projects/programs
Transparency
There you be the openness in delivering information to the rest of the team. This helps in knowing areas to be improved as well as heightening level of honesty to the customers. Retrospective steps should be included though holding recurring discussions.
Delivery strategy: The undisputable means of winning the clients is through displaying achievement I running any project. This means that team work and seriousness will tend to make the processes efficient and thus will shift customers to opt for the job since it tends to be cheaper in long ru as compared to the traditional waterfall projects.
A critical reflection on my development of skills this semester
A critical reflection on my development of skills this semester
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1:A review of my timetable
The following chat shows is an extraction from my person weekly timetable showing the time spend in class (19 hours), private study (24 hours), work (include childcare/household duties) (13 hours), food preparation (13 hours), personal hygiene (7 hours) and leisure/socialising (72 hours).
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In class
I normally take around 19 hours in class. This is between 12 noon and 6pm on Tuesday, 11am and 4pm on Wednesday and from 9am to 1 pm on Thursday. This represents nearly 11% if my weekly time. The 19 hours spent with a tutor allows for more time to apply the learned skills in real life. The extra time is also used for practice and further research on a given topic. Scheduling class time from Wednesday to Thursday is important since it allows me with my family and time to do house chores.
Private study
I spend more time in private study compared to classroom time. I use 26 hours which translates to 14% of my weekly time. I study for averagely three hours per day. Self-study allows me time to research on my own and compare various scholars’ assertions and findings. The high percentage of time spent in self-study has been contributed by my eagerness to learn new things. Throughout the semester, and based on the units taught, I have gained curiosity of learning whether formally or informally. My wiliness to learn new things have assisted me develops my academic and professional life. I have been able not only to master new skills but also get clarification of given issues through consultations and notes comparison. My persistence or industriousness has enabled me progress academically. I have been taking pleasure in achieving tasks and assignments.
Work (include childcare/household duties)
This contributes to nearly 8% of my weekly time. I have been concentrating in house hold duties to give allow enough learning time for personal study.
Food preparation, eating and clearing up
Food preparations, eating and clearing up takes 8% of my weekly time. The high percentage is contributed by my child and cleaning up which takes 3.5% of the time. Shopping only takes 2% of the time since I only have one child.
Personal hygiene
Personal hygiene takes 4% of the time. The person hygiene includes washing and bathing.
Leisure/socialising
Relaxation takes 12% of the week. Socializing helps build relationships with others. Apart from the academic and professional life, it is necessary that I take some time with the close relatives and friends. It helps me learn about others and also from them. Socializing also helps me relax after self-study. The high percentage is contributed by the fact that I need more time to relax with my family members. Over the years, I have developed various skills and experiences of which the experiences help me in interaction with people. This makes me easy to work with, and people desire to work with me as I am an individual that can influence people to a strong common cause through my approach to work and tasks. Being a terrible team player intermarried with an impatience approach to things makes me feel that I have attributes that many people would consider as weaknesses.
Though I could not achieve the 200 hours studying, I spend most of the time in self-study. I feel my current timetable suits my academic needs and leaves me time with the family members.
2: A review of your learning from the process of developing group report
Objective 1: Team player and good communication
My first objective was to learn more about being a team player and develop good communication skills. My aim was to succeed and gain better communication skills and be able to cooperate with different people either in the group or outside. Pursuing this goal has enabled me to improve my communication and team performance skills. Currently, I am ain a position to express myself fluently compared to my previous state. Referring to the course content, I can admittedly say that a lot of speech work has been covered and hence enhancing my communication skills. It is through good communication skills that I have been able to express myself in the group. I am able, through communication, verbally or written to conduct an interview and describe a situation as it occurred. Through perusing this objective, I have learnt that good communications skills are essential quality since it assists me to understand other group member’s opinion and assertions. A good communication and being a team player has enabled me to enhance my interactions with other group members. Through team work, I have been able to learn various backgrounds of individuals for better understanding of each group member. My good communication skills, both verbally and written has assisted me communicate with various people that I interact with.
Objective 2: Graduation
I would like to graduate at the end of my International Tourism Management course. I would like to attain better grades and get a good job after graduation. The university through pursuing this course have given me a better understanding and knowledge in this course and other related fields. The course has taught me how to manage my time and allow me time to associate with others. Through reading various course books and other materials, I have learnt various interaction and team management skills. The skills gained through the course have enabled me work effectively with different people and groups and ages. I have also enhanced my communication skills and team management. Through the course, I have developed god critical thinking skills and this has assisted me to succeed in given working conditions. The course has enhanced my listening skills and so better working with other group members.
Objective 3: time management
I wanted to be able to plan my time and learn different revision approaches. I have been able to organize my timetable and also ensure that I do not miss an activity as indicated in the timetable. Managing time is one of the most important aspects in achieving one’s predetermined goals either at work or at school. It refers to developing processes and tools that will ensure an increase in efficiency and productivity in the performance of a given task. In order to be effective in performing these activities, one has to allocate an amount of time to a task and ensure the task is performed within the allocated time. Time management ensures that work is well balanced with rest or leisure and encompasses what activities are being performed, how enjoying it is in performing the activities and the changes necessary in how the activity is being performed. One of the most important aspects in time management is allocating enough time to leisure. My timetable has allowed me enough time for socializing with other people and thus better understandings. Socializing has enhanced my sensitivity and good communication skills and other leadership skills that assist me to work under any circumstances.
3.B Review of deliverables and feedback on them
The following section presents deliverables that were submitted ot the lecturer, feedbacks gotten from them. This section also demonstrates how the outcomes from the tutor assisted in developing my writing skills.
The introduction
The feedback indicated the introduction I wrote was not standard. It did not address the key aspects considered in a good introduction. The feedback indicated areas of improvements and points of weaknesses. Through the feedback, I have learnt that a good introduction should be formulaic. The first sentence should be engaging the readers to the given topic and it should act as a hook to draw the reader’s attention. The introduction should be specific to a given topic or subject. This should be done with all possible clarity, and nature of scope of the research. The introduction should provide the rational for the essay or the research.
An argument
Presenting arguments had never been easy till I got the feedback on the deliverables. Though the feedback was not positive, I managed to learn how to present various arguments. The arguments should be discussed in deepness with reference to other materials. Logics and simplicity is also significant in presenting an argument. The writer needs to be as simple and clear as possible for easy understanding. It is significant to compose a clearly organized, evidence-based, and essay or research with the hypothesis to catch the readers’ interest in one’s piece of written work.
Conclusion
The feedback on the conclusion indicated few improvements. The improvements were in line with specificity and summary of the entire work. Among what I have learned based on the feedback and other reference materials is that a conclusion should be a summary of the entire research or easy. It should not contain any extra information or materials. The conclusion should provide areas that need further research. The conclusion should emphasize the importance of the research or essay and show the main points and how they were supported. Through the feedback I have been able to write comprehensive conclusions appropriate for undergraduates.
3:An improved argument
This section is a rewrite of the conclusion presented to the lecturer. The original conclusion is presented at the appendix.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Ryanair is growing with over seven million passengers for seven successive months in October. The international Airlines Group (IAG) saw a growth of 7.5% and thus attained 4.9 million customers.
The goal of this merge for Ryanair is to become the biggest budget airline in Europe so therefore they decided to go with a merge with Aer Lingus to offer low cost fares to any long haul & short haul destinations. Merging with Aer Lingus was to help it acquire its market and allow it to operate long haul destination to the USA and other European markets. This is since Aer Lingus realized a growth of 14.2% to €356.90, boosted by the ‘Emerald Isle’ college football game between Navy and Notre Dame that was played in Dublin in September. This attracted a significant number of US visitors in order to reach greater market and broaden their markets. Furthermore, Aer Lingus made a ‘strong’ Q3 operating profit of €90.9m ‘despite weaker business demand on core routes to London during the Olympic Games. Revenue in the three months ended 30 September rose 5.7% to €460.8m, while passenger numbers excluding Aer Lingus Regional slipped 0.6% to 2.94m.
If Ryanair and Aer Lingus merge there is still a lot of competition in the market with other airlines that are listed in the argument, but the competition would be closed in Ireland having the monopoly Ryanair. Companies coming together and merging can bring positive outcomes for both parties but there are also risks involved. We believe that Ryan Air merging with Aer Lingus will be a good partnership and feel that the potential rewards will outweigh any potential risks.
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Conclusion
Ryanair is growing on passenger number from over 7million passengers for the seventh successive month in October, while International Airlines Group (IAG) saw growth of 7.5% to 4.9million.
Ryanair has the possibility to merge with Aer Lingus acquiring its market having the possibility to operate long haul destination to USA and others European markets having the increment on the markets and reverence such as Aer Lengus n seat grew by 14.2% to €356.90, boosted by the ‘Emerald Isle’ college football game between Navy and Notre Dame that was played in Dublin in September and which attracted a significant number of US visitors in order to reach greater market and broaden their markets. Aer Lingus made a ‘strong’ Q3 operating profit of €90.9m ‘despite weaker business demand on core routes to London during the Olympic Games. Revenue in the three months ended 30 September rose 5.7% to €460.8m, while passenger numbers excluding Aer Lingus Regional slipped 0.6% to 2.94m.
There will be an investigation on this planned merging on both companies regarding the EU Commission. If Ryanair and Aer Lingus merge there is still a lot of competition in the market with other airlines that are listed in the argument, but the competition would be closed in Ireland having the monopoly Ryanair.
The goal of this merge for Ryanair is to become the biggest budget airline in Europe so therefore they decided to go with a merge with Aer Lingus to offer low cost fares to any long haul & short haul destinations.
Companies coming together and merging can bring positive outcomes for both parties but there are also risks involved. We believe that Ryan Air merging with Aer Lingus will be a good partnership and feel that the potential rewards will outweigh any potential risks.
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