Introduction
In fact, one of the most influential events in the world of diversity is Iowa Medicaid program development, which now covers gender-affirming care (Ring, 2021). This case is a clear application of correct addressing the issue as it was stated previously, one of the most considerable factors that disable diversity as the global trend is the exorbitant price for providing the surgery operation. The medicine intervention is inevitable since it is critical to change not only the physical appearance but also the primary factors that biologically distinguish males and females. However, Iowa state demonstrated the legitimate precedent that people should have the right not only to decide their gender type but also be able to change it through surgical operation. In this case, it is rational to analyze the problem from an economical perspective. Previously, the high price for medical intervention was a strong barrier for people who would like to change their considerations completely.
Even though the classical principle of supply and demand provided insufficient incentive for surgeries to execute operations for a more affordable price, the governmental medical system could have provided the needed support. Nevertheless, the government provided reasonable intervention and corrected the externality effect by subsidizing surgery prices for people in strong need of surgery operation when it comes to gender changes. This event provides a considerable impact on society since more people now have not only legal but also financial freedom to choose their gender and orientation. At the same time, the inclusive society has influenced the creation of such a tendency on both state and countrywide levels. Moreover, large-capitalized corporations, the biggest taxpayers, demonstrated their readiness to consider that part of their tax payments would be spent on enabling people to change their gender by active participation during global and particular manifestations and festivals concerning diversity addressing.
Yourself
Nowadays, when speaking about myself, the Iowa case helped me to widen my world perception from historical and social perspectives. More specifically, I understood that throughout history, humanity was experiencing changeable periods from absolute freedom to the total abandonment of individual choice. These periods have a wide variation, but the general tendency is that totalitarianism as the general trend becomes less durable, while liberal governing experience consistent development without considerable disruptions. For instance, Catholic church domination in the middle age remained the prevailing source of power for more than 300 years, while totalitarianisms before World War I remained for less than 150 years. At the same time, from a sociology perspective, people consider the freedom of choice as the integral part of their life, which makes diversity the same fundamental aspect of society’s existence as the right to personal opinion, freedom of expression, or the right for existence. I understand the world as the sophisticated set of individuals who share the same purpose, which is living, and who strive to maximize personal utility by not decreasing someone’s well-being at the same time. In fact, this method of world perception is not far from the libertarian approach of thinking from a political perspective.
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Turning to sociology as my specialization, diverse people have entered society as distinct subjects with the same set of rights and obligations. However, as with any new element of studying, sociologists would concentrate on diversity representatives’ proprieties and how they might be determined in the contemporary world. On the other hand, the next big question for scientists who study diversity issue from a social perspective would be whether the social diversity would enforce the society’s power or the freedom of choosing the gender will result in deconcentrating humanity’s ability to manage itself due to the diversity of people’s consideration and the world perception.
Society
When it comes to society’s perspective, diversity studies helped me to understand the nature of people with another world perception. Moreover, I can increase the value of my communication by avoiding the conversation concerning counter-diversity aspects since they might negatively influence further interpersonal relations. For example, instead of asking a person about their favorite football team, I would encourage the person to describe what is their preferable type of sport and why. As a result, this approach would help me not only to make the conversation more valuable but also enlarge the transition mechanisms between different spheres of life, which will be easier to discuss during the natural conversation.
When it comes to goal achievements, diversity studies might also be important for society on both personal and professional levels. On the one hand, they help people to avoid different conflicts since it is impossible to accuse a person who respects other people’s values and freedom of expression. Moreover, during the real-life communication, those who studied diversity more profoundly would have an advantage in terms of addressing experience since gender choice freedom might be described as an effective society’s demand which is proclaimed at the appropriate time and situation. On the other hand, to achieve professional goals, the person should firstly reconsider the working environment. For instance, Flory et al. suggest adjusting the work environment to the diversity inclusiveness by eliminating distinguished dress-code rules for both men and women (Flory et al., 2018). This process would create freedom of choice for workers so that they would more effectively interact with each other. At the same time, Kim et al. demonstrate the possibility of implementing a global strategy that would enable more people to experience managing the whole company. As a result, employees would have more opportunities to become leaders of their organizations, where they might understand how the corporation functionates and what are the long-term priorities of the entity.
Diversity also influences our everyday routine from different perspectives. Some of them involve more inclusive marketing campaigns, where people are free from biased opinions and receive only high-quality advertising products (Beji et al., 2021). Moreover, cultural events would be provided for the wider public so that more people would consider them as more interesting and engaging. Last but not least, diversity provokes new challenges for sociologists since they should consider this subject not as a part of male or female representatives but as a completely distinct subject due to their mentality and physical proprieties. Consequently, social scientists would question the current determination of a specific person and their reasons for changing their gender or orientation. This is because of the fact that consequences do not provide much information to sociologists, but the motive contains the important value for their studies since it might describe the reasoning for subjects’ actions and compare the previewed and actual consequences of them.
Conclusion
Among the most important diversity benefits is that this tendency is already at its rising trend so that even fewer efforts would provide significantly better results compared to the situation three years earlier. Moreover, diversity has already demonstrated its efficacy in addressing the personal and working environment in terms of better and more valuable communication. Finally, society became free to determine almost all of their life aspects, which makes humanity more prepared for global changes due to the higher readiness of taking responsibility for self actions. On the other hand, diversity still provokes many challenges that are not quite effectively addressed to society. Firstly, it is a legal issue since diverse people cannot be specifically related to either gender. Secondly, it is the minority of aggressively settled personalities who cannot adjust to today’s realities and refuse diversity as a global trend. These people still have enough power to stifle the growing tendency.
Last but not least, diversity still faces the financial challenge, which, however, was discussed in this case study. Even though the precedent was created, the financial barrier is still strong enough to discourage many individuals from making their choice of changing the gender through surgery operation. Finally, diversity assists individuals in avoiding various confrontations on the interpersonal level since it is hard to blame someone who respects the ideals and freedom of speech of others. Additionally, people who have a deeper understanding of diversity will have an edge when it comes to addressing experiences associated with gender choice during real-world interactions. Freedom may be defined as an effective social demand that is made at the proper time and place. On the professional level, diversity encourages people to eliminate gender boundaries in order to promote an unbiased and free from clichés atmosphere, where it is easier to communicate. In addition, corporate leadership might experience regular changes on the highest management posts so that the vast majority of people would have the possibility to realize the company’s processes and other people’s challenges.
References
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Flory, J., Leibbrandt, A., Rott, C., & Stoddard, O. (2018). Increasing workplace diversity: Evidence from a recruiting experiment at a Fortune 500 company. The Journal of Human Resources, 56(1), 73-92.
Kim, Y., Jeong, S. S., Yiu, D. W., & Moon, J. (2021). Frequent CEO turnover and firm performance: The resilience effect of workforce diversity.Journal of Business Ethics, 173, 185-203. Web.
Ring, T. (2021). Iowa Medicaid Program Must Cover Gender-Affirming Care, Judge Rules.Advocate. Web.