Social Trends Affecting U.S. Social Policy
Topics To Be Covered
Background
Major Social Trends And Social Welfare Implications
Growth and Demography
Productivity and the Service Economy
Changes in Marriage and Family Structure
Marriage and Family Structure (Cont.)
Ethnicity and Pluralism
Waves of Immigration
Issues Confronting the Newest Immigrants
Gender Issues: Issues Affecting Women
Gender Issues (Cont.)
Family Wage System-Reasons
Family Wage System (Cont.)
Sexism-Levels
Individual Sexual Discrimination
Organizational Discrimination
Institutional Discrimination
Cultural Discrimination
Gays and Lesbians
Why Gays/Lesbians Classified as Sexual Minorities
Issues Confronting Gays and Lesbians
Types of Homophobia
Homophobia
Personal Homophobia
Interpersonal Homophobia
Institutional Homophobia
Cultural Homophobia
Policy Response to the Major Social Trends
Policies Addressing the Family Care
Dealing With Sexual Harassment
Dealing With Abortion Issue: Judicial Decisions
Roe V. Wade (Cont.)
The Hyde Amendment
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services of 1989
The 1993 Law
The “Buffer Zone’ Act
Addressing the Domestic Violence Problem
Addressing the Earnings Gap:
Comparable Worth
The Equal Pay Act of 1963
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Executive Order 11246, as amended by Executive Order 11375
Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act
The Equal Credit Act of 1975
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Legislation Affecting Gays and Lesbians
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