Social Justice Issues

What is Social Justice?

Is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we institutions. In turn, social institution  when justly organized provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others.

imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

Types of Social Justice Issues

1. Inter-Social Treatment- this involves treatment of a group(s) of people within the local and regional scale.

RacismSexismAgeismHeterosexism

2.Unequal Government Regulation- this involves laws and regulations that purposefully or otherwise, discriminate a group(s) from the same opportunities and resources based on differences that are unique to that group(s):

Poverty (lacking access to food, clean water, and shelter)

Death Penalty Environmental Rights (racism) Access to Health Care Heterosexism Labor Laws Civil Rights (racism and sexism) Access to Education

Social Justice Issues Resolving Gender Equity

  1. The development of educators in the academe to adapt methods that address gender equity in computing

2. Implementing programs such as seminar, symposia series in the academe that features women's role in industries.

3. Individual efforts by private sector, community organizations and the parents to encourage women's participation in the field of computing and enhancing personal their development to open doors for themselves in working with computer technology.

 

4. Highlighting women's achievements in computing. An example of which is Grace Hopper's contribution in early compilers and languages. Her significant role in the Nav'y standardization of COBOL programming languages is an indication that women have great contributions to the field of computing.

5. In schools, Infusing comprehensive strategies that encourage equal participation of both men and women is class room activities.

6. Role modeling by faculty, parents, lecturers on gatherings.

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