Essays and Research Papers on Social Issues

A 7 page research paper on the current status of the universal health care program in Canada, as well as predictions on how well it will have survived the first decades of the twenty-first century. Particular emphasis is laid on women's health funding, which now is threatened to some degree by budget cuts. Bibliography lists ...

This 10 page paper discusses the history of women in the labor movement in the 18th and 19th centuries. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 11 page paper presents a history of women's rights/feminist movements, including a report about where the term 'feminism' came from. The writer reports on the different types of feminism, including religious feminism. The paper also comments on the men's groups that emerged from feminism. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 7 page report discusses the fact that a woman who has been the victim of a violent crime and who is then victimized a second time by the judicial system, social censure, an employment crisis, and even an unspoken but still understood condemnation based on her personal history, lifestyle, or personal belief system. Bibliography lists 3 sources. ...

This 10 page paper examines how domestic violence cases are investigated. This paper present the problem of domestic violence, some history of the subject and the changing view of domestic violence within the law enforcement system. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 5 page examination of author Helen Birch' suggestion that: "The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all, that we do not have a language to represent female killing...". The author of this paper contends that while that has been the case throughout history, feminist criminology is slowly fashioning such a language. Bibliography ...

A 4 page paper which examines the journal of Esther Burr and Eliza Southgate Browne’s letters, comparing and contrasting them in terms of women in history. The paper also discusses “A Midwife’s Tale” by Martha Ballard. No additional sources cited.

A 3 page review of Rosenberg’s extensive review of women’s plight in the twentieth century. Rosenberg relates this plight to the complexity of factors which have served to keep women subdued throughout history. Not only are women’s lives divided between their relationships with men in their world, however, they are also divided between ...

An 11 page paper which examines the history of women in Canada from 1000 to 1800. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

An 8 page discussion of abortion. Defines abortion as the termination of a pregnancy and contrasts governmental policy with ethics. Provides a review of important case law in abortion but concludes that while abortion may be legal under some circumstances it is never ethical. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

An 8 page overview of the issues involved in the incarceration of female inmates. This paper reviews the history of female incarceration to note similarities in the past and the present in regard to the current move to incarcerating male and female inmates in the same facility. The author insists that this approach is ...

A 4 page discussion of the importance of women’s roles in this interesting time in world history. The author asserts that Woodrow Wilson’s contention that World War I was a war to ensure democracy simply did not pan out either domestically or internationally. Instead the world was left tremendously unstable, an instability which ...

A 7 page research paper that examines the history of social work in regards to women's poverty, beginning in the colonial period to the present. The writer argues that a look at the welfare reform of recent decades demonstrates how the perspective of Social Darwinism has persisted, under a different guise, demonizing the poor. The ...

Women's Roles within the Family in Europe / 1300-1700 : In 5 pages, the author discusses that women's roles within the family in Europe in the period of 1300-1700 were defined largely through the regulation and supervision of their bodies from both the perspective of the male and the women themselves. Bibliography lists 6 ...

A 6 page research paper that examines the role of women in Judaism in Eastern Europe prior to 1917. The writer particularly concentrates on the work of Jewish author and historian, Yaffa Eliach, and her book, There Once Was a World, which describes life in the shtetl of Eishyshok, which was located in Lithuania. Bibliography ...

(4 pp) Hayashi Fumiko's work places Japanese women in the role of hero/heroine in a world that has previously only allocated that status, or "badge of honor" to men of prestige. As a person and an author she claims the right to wear that badge herself.

(4 pp) Hayashi Fumiko's work places Japanese women in the role of hero/heroine in a world that has previously only allocated that status, or "badge of honor" to men of prestige. As a person and an author she claims the right to wear that badge herself.

4 pages in length. Domestic violence, like so many other offenses against the person, lacks legislation tough enough to actually make a difference where early recognition is concerned. The extent to which there are clinics and safe houses and programs to address the physical and emotional aftermath of heightened spousal abuse is both ...

A 12 page paper detailing the injustices women often have to face as the victims of violent crimes from not only the criminal but also the law enforcement personnel who are responsible for investigating crime, the criminal justice system which is responsible for litigating such crimes, and the media which often gives an unfair view ...

Abortion is a religious issue as well as a medical and social issue. The extreme range of emotions that are involved in the debate concerning abortion as a core religious and political ideologies. This 8 page paper compares the laws governing abortion in the United States and in Spain. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 5 page review of Frances Heidensohn’s book “Women in Control? The Role of Women in Law Enforcement.” Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.

A 6 page discussion of the ethics of abortion is concerned. The author of this paper examines both the pros and cons surrounding the issues of abortion, pointing out that there could indeed be many problems with pregnancies which result from rape. The conclusion is presented, however, that abortion is against natural law ...

A 6 page paper comparing the treatment of women in Homeric times (as illustrated by the tribulations of Penelope in the Odyssey) with the many rules and prohibitions given to women under early Judaic law. The paper concludes that both systems effectively tie women to the house without giving them any authority over it. Bibliography ...

A 4 page discussion of the historic inequality which has existed between the genders. The author emphasizes that while laws such as affirmative action have their place in remedying inequality, a more appropriate focus is on changing mindsets. By accomplishing the latter society as a whole is bettered. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 9 page paper discusses Title IX and the controversy that has existed since the law was passed in 1972. The three components for compliance are explained. Since it has been 30 years since Title IX was passed, one might think that every institution of higher education is now compliant but that is not the ...