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Battle of the sexes In the history of the human race, men and women have rarely gotten along with each other. Since the dawn of time, the sexes have been fighting against each other with no end in sight. For a long time, men have ruled the world, but recently, that has started to change. More and more women are in the work force, government, and the military. However, men and women are still different, but this does not mean they can’t be equal. Political cleavage was the topic of the group presentation. We made up a fictional country with numerous problems based on different cleavages such as geographical, political, ethnic and regional, class and gender. The country is divided in north and south, north being the poorer part of the country but having the most important environmental resources such as the oil reserves. The south consists of the richer population who exploit the people from the north for their cheap labor. The country is in a state of emergency and needs to settle all the issues in various fields. Gender is one of the main cleavages which need to be focused on. The women of this country especially in the north have constantly been harassed and looked down upon. Many rich men from the south have taken advantage of them, overworked them, and left them alone to take care of large families with little or no income. In the real world there are many countries that deal with the gender issues. Such as the countries which have endless supply of cheap, young, female labor, act as the cornerstone of successful export-oriented industrialization in East and South-East Asia. The share of women in the manufacturing sector often exceeded the percentage of men involved in Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. The increasing employment of women in the manufacturing sector has been confined to a limited range of export-oriented, labor-intensive industries.
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