UNIT D: BLOG 35

BLOG 35: Equal Employment Opportunity

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is now implementing new laws to provide antidiscrimination laws that is helping women in regards to child care responsibilities. These new regulations will not only help women, but this law is stating that the companies need to go above and beyond to help these women. This document is created to help women when they are dealing with juggling work and providing care for their families. This regulation is providing care and helping women by making their employers help them more. Stated that they should not just do the "bare minimum" to help these women that they should be doing anything they can do help.

They state that these companies need to go through and re work their current structuring of their companies and making the structure of the establishment more efficient and better for the mothers that are trying to juggle work and home life responsibilities. They state that they are trying to help the "caregiver" and these are the people that are working and also in charge of providing care for their families. This category of people will and does include mother caring for their children and people that are caring for other member such as the elderly and members of the family that have disabilities. They acknowledge the fact that the greater amount of people that this is affected is working women and even more working women of color, but does also include some men.

The importance of this document is very vital especially in our current economy. The article goes over just exact how important it is considering how many more women are working now. Women make up 46 percent of the work force and this number is rising. A key to this is because of our current economy; now a lot of women are working more. With this economy we need this type of regulations because of the job layoffs we need to make sure that the women that do have jobs, that they keep their jobs and ensure their security of their positions.