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Impact of Societal Issues on Your Career

Explore how societal issues such as stereotypes, bias, discrimination, and respect for diversity can affect your ability to function effectively in a diverse and changing world. Learn about non-traditional careers, balancing life roles, and the importance of respecting and accepting people of different backgrounds, abilities, and viewpoints.

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Impact of Societal Issues on Your Career

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  1. Impact of Societal Issues on You and Your Career Written by Randall Brown

  2. Societal Issues Change Non-traditional Careers Stereotypes, Bias, Discrimination Respect Diversity Balancing Life Roles They all impact your ability to function effectively in a diverse and changing world

  3. Balancing Life Roles Learner Personal Leisure Family Community Work

  4. Respect for Diversity Do you respect & accept people who • Disabilities • Income • Viewpoints • Ethnicity • Religion • Sex • Intelligence • Tolerance • Youth • can’t function like you due to disabilities • make more or less money than you • see things in ways that differ from yours • who are not the same race as you • have different religious faith from yours • are members of the opposite gender • have a higher or lower IQ than yours • have higher or lower tolerance than you • are much older or younger than you

  5. Stereotypes, Bias, Discrimination • Race • Religion • National Origin • Rednecks • Blondes • Women • Men • Old People • Children • Propaganda • Marketing • Class • Ethnocentrism • Ignorance • Disabilities • Income • Viewpoints • Ethnicity (race) • Religion • Sex (gender) • Intelligence • Tolerance • Youth (age) http://fnopress.com/OWL/owl3.htm Notice any similarities among these?

  6. Non-traditional Careers MEN WOMEN Carpenters & Electricians Engineers Firefighters Auto Mechanics Clergy Truck Drivers Security Guards Heavy Machine Operators Dentists • Bank Tellers & Cashiers • Clerical/Admin Support • Cosmetologists • Dental Assistants • Flight Attendants • Nurses • Social Workers • Hair Stylists • Child Care Workers

  7. Change • Expect Changes in • Technology • Society • The economy • Updated knowledge & skill is required to keep up • Continuing education • Be a lifelong learner

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