Presentation: Culture

Presentation on culture

The fast food culture

The differences between eastern and western culture

Differences between the two cultures

Difference between the western and eastern culture 

Difference between the western and eastern culture 

Presentation: Abuse and Violence

Definition of woman abuse

The implication taken to overcome the issue of woman abused.

Types of woman abuse

Organization against women abuse

Exhibition

The Chinese culture in the ancient. 

The three major religion in Malaysia. 

The 'Baju Kebaya' is used to exhibit on the topic of Culture Diversity.

The early communication which is used by our ancestors.

The propaganda used by many companies to promote their stuffs.

Different leaders have different propaganda.

Every country advertise their tourism.

They are the 'Persuasive Propaganda' team.

Two of our lecturers are playing our games.

Our seniors are visiting our stalls.

We are taking photos with our adviser, Madam Tan.

Graphic Organizer: Interpersonal Conflict

I-THINK 1: Life of Diana, Princess of Wales

I-THINK 2: An Overall Background of Conflict

I-THINK 3: Profile of Princess Diana

I-THINK MAP 4: Profile of Princess Diana

I-THINK MAP 5: Engagement and Wedding of Princess Diana

I-THINK MAP 6: Similarities and Differences of Charles and Diana

I-THINK MAP 7: Reason of Conflict

I-THINK MAP 8: Marriage and Divorce of Charles and Diana

I-THINK MAP 9: A Flow Map of Marriage of Diana, Princess of Wales

Graphic Organizers: Effects of Globalization in Malaysia

I-THINK MAP 1: Effects of Globalization in Malaysia

I-THINK MAP 2: Social Problems in Malaysia

I-THINK MAP 3: Ways to Tackle Vandalism

I-THINK MAP 4: Impact of Technologies

I-THINK MAP 5: An Overview of Protistution

Graphic Organizers: Vietnam War

I-THINK MAP 1: The Timeline of Vietnam War

I-THINK MAP  2: The Timeline of Vietnam War

I-THINK MAP 3: The Involvement of Canada In The Vietnam War

I-THINK MAP 4: The Involvement of Canada In The Vietnam War

By: Kok Jia Xuan

Task: How is gender stereotyping being practiced in the corporate sectors?

         Gender stereotyping refers to the expectation of the roles and abilities of men and women in the society. As we all know, men are usually expected to be stronger and become the leaders of the society. Therefore, many people seem to underestimate and question women’s capabilities in their works. This issue may happen and being practiced in the corporate sector all around the world, like China, United States, and other European countries. Undeniably, the problems do exist in our country, Malaysia.

         Firstly, this issue is probably found during a job promotion. For example, in an insurance company, there are two workers holding the same post and qualification. A is a male, and B is a female. There is a newly high vacancy in the company and the boss wishes to raise one of them as the new manager. Therefore, the boss calls them in a meeting and tells them about his will to promote either one of them. They are being given three months to reveal their abilities and performances in works. In the observation, the boss realizes that worker A is very hardworking and capable as a leader. She manages to convince many customers to buy her insurance and brings a lot of benefits to the company. On the other hands, worker B is an extremely lazy and shows ordinary reputation in his works. So, the boss probably has to promote worker A as the manager. Ironically, the boss choose worker B to hold the post. The reason is he thinks that the leader of the company should be a male, not the other way round. He gives excuses like women will have to take care of her family and certainly not able to balance up the pressure between the family and the working place.

           Secondly, there may have many corporate bosses refuse to hire women as their workers. The reason is very simple. This is because they think that they might face a lot of troubles handling with their health problem if they ever hire a married woman to join the company. For our information, when a female worker has a newborn baby, the boss must give at least one month holiday to her. As a result, he has to pay the new mother who has no contribution to the company during that particular month. Therefore, he rather hires a young man worker who has very ordinary reputation but free from the health problems and family burden. Moreover, the boss, especially a male boss often has the traditional thinking that women should consider their family’s responsibilities as the first place. So, she may perform badly in her works. As we all know, women are viewed to be a weaker and emotional gender compared to men. When they feel overstressed, they might give up easily and definitely fail in their works.

        Thirdly, one of the genders stereotyping which possibly will happen in a corporate company is the unfair treatment of the male bosses towards the female workers. In this 21^st century, many modern families have no time to look after their babies. However, they are not willing to spend money to look for a baby-sitter or place the babies in a nursery center. In this case, many modern mothers begin the new trend to bring their babies to the working places. However, many male bosses are not really understanding and do not even provide a room for the mothers to breast feed their children. Instead, some of them start to degrade the female workers who bring their baby along their works and even cut down their salary for the reason that she is not concentrated and professional in her works. Furthermore, the male boss will try to find as much as trivial mistakes made by her and humiliate her until she is willing to quit from the company.

            In conclusion, women are still being left out of decision-making due to reluctance and stereotyping of gender. We all have to work together to put a stop on this issue. The society should change their mind along with the evolution of time. Men and women should be treated equally to work to success. Neither one sex should be discriminated. We have to prevent this issue to deteriorate and eventually create an unbalance problem to the country. 

by Soon Ming Hui

Task: Explain the roles of support groups in cases of violence and abuses.

Violence and abuse imply destruction, anger, and pain. Over years, there has been an explosion of knowledge about violence and abuse, its prevalence and its linkage to social problems.  Women and girls are the predominant victims of violence and abuse. Support groups and organizations are initiated and established; with their most fundamental functions of protecting women from criminal victimization of cases of violence and abuse.

First of all, the most important role of the support groups is to access the circumstances and needs of the victims. The support groups play important roles in providing any physical support for the victims. For instance, a support group should be able to contact any temporary emergency shelters on the state so that the battered women could have a place to stay in. Medical support should be ready for those victims who suffered injuries from violence. Physical support is essential because most of the victims have chosen to leave home permanently when they decided to seek help.

           It is a vital role of support group to listen to the victims and provide validating messages. Thus, mental support, such as counselling or confession sessions with a well-trained social worker, psychologist or even a psychiatrist, should be provided by support groups of cases of violence and abuse. It is to assist the victim in understanding what is happening, coping with in recovering from the trauma experienced, explain the options available to the victim so that the victim can make an informed decision about what she would like to do in the circumstances.
 

Besides, when a victim would like to sought help of legal assistance, the support groups should be able to lead her to appropriate authorities and always assist the victims in the process of prosecution. Financial assistance should be provided when necessary. Above all, any support groups should intervene as appropriate based on the victim’s wishes, circumstances and her needs.

Support groups should be able to work with the government or the related authorities to be able to give advices and suggestions on law reinforcement and fight for the appropriate balancing of rights, roles, and responsibilities of the various participants within the system. It is one of the support groups’ role to work towards establishing compulsory expeditious judicial process, create awareness amongst members of the judiciary and persuade the government to set up special courts for women.

As how people always say, education has the ability to make or break a person.  Campaign or seminars on human rights especially human rights should hold by support groups to educate the society. Pamphlets or booklet should be printed and distributed to the public to create awareness in public. Data and statistics should be announced to the public to enlighten them about the real situation of violence and abuse in the world.

As an effort of the support groups to secure women’s rights, they can take up roles to educate the women especially in the interior areas.  When a woman knows about their rights, they might be able to protect themselves and even her child. Support groups should input these women with vocational skills such as arts, crafts, and etc. in order that the women could build up some self-esteem besides earning extra money.

Every individual has the basic right to a life free from fear and violence.  All forms of violence and intimidation constitute a violation of the individual’s basic human rights.  Support groups have been doing a wonderful job lending a helping hand to the needy. However, women themselves should be aware of their rights and be more daring to speak up so that the authorities can bring help.

by Dorina Wong Ming, Yean Yan Tong

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