In the course of the study the relations of gender and sexuality with spirituality shall be looked into in greater detail, while also trying to grasp the understanding of the gender in some prominent Bhakta traditions as well. ... She highlights the idea that the woman's role is perceived to be confined to the household, as the wife and the child-bearer or the mother. ... For her, it is therefore glaringly true that even though transcendence from the superficial ideas of gender is sought in traditions such as Bhakti, men and women look at spirituality differently and embark on the spiritu...

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In line with the UN's fundamental role to support national development efforts, the UN also responds to national partners' requests to develop capacity and fill technical gaps where they exist. ... In addition, girls and women in India face gender discrimination at every stage of their life, at times starting even before they are born. ... Gender inequality is thus pervasive and cuts across class, caste, religion and geography, and violence against women is on the increase. ... The challenge is to promote gender equality and gender balance. ... Outcome 3 Gender Equality Government...

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Hence, as a result to find the answers to the questions raised in the above, gender inequalities, religious interpretations of women and men, economic factors and social discourses will be the key elements which will be discussed in depth throughout the essay. ... Therefore, it was this gender inequality, which in fact pushed women into sex industry since prostitution seemed the only profession or the last option they can think of which would bring more earnings than other jobs, although it would mean selling their body. ... Therefore, this essay tries to argue that gender inequality is an i...

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The Indian caste system is a closed system of social stratification where people in Indian are differentiated through class, religion, region, tribe, gender and language (Desphande, 2011). ... Undoubtedly, the depiction of women's roles in Hindu law books such as the Dharma-Satras and Laws of Manu (200C.E) support this notion. These texts graphically depict women as subservient, serving and needing attention and so far as illustrates the role of females as a wife to bear her husband's children (Van Ham, 2008). Consequently, the archetypes and the role of women found in Hindu texts ...

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In this reversal of roles, the lower castes mingle freely with the upper ones and acquire the liberty to play pranks on their social superiors. ... On observing these interactions, Marriott interprets this reversal of roles as leading to greater love and understanding of the other. He also stresses that because there exists a feeling of love towards the other that there is a willingness to reverse roles, thus resulting in a mutual reinforcement of reversal and reciprocation. ... This statement of Krishna's readiness to deny his divine status and project himself as an ordinary mortal, pla...

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He gives three different endings to Eunice's life, which parallel her numerous experiences: one coinciding with her part in the Catholic lifestyle; one from her homeland of New England; and one from her role in the Kahwanake society. ... He clearly defined the differences in the family lifestyle, the gender roles, the religion, and the discipline tactics. ...

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The role of watch-dog institutions such as UPSC was significantly undermined. ... At present the country is facing disintegration of society in the form of communal divide, the developed and the underdeveloped divide, gender, caste and race discrimination. ... Granted that there are bureaucrats who are intelligent and hardworking too Parthasarthy says a bureaucracy with a smaller role and greater transparency should be created with a Civil Service board to control postings, promotions, and transfers. ...

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As Aneela Sltana stated in 'Gender Excavations: Understanding Woman's Beauty in Space and time' article that "Visual representation of women is a subjective matter which depends on individual perception. ... Therefore because culture varies from country to county and even within the cities, the big role in identifying beauty is played by how society views and teaches their members on how and why people should consider one person as more attractive than the other. ... Though out times people were always comparing themselves to others and history of the country, civilization play...

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1492 Columbus sailed to the West Indies leading a chain reaction of future navigators and explorers to come forth in exploration to the land of the west. No, Columbus did not discover a new country that no one knew about because native habitants were already settled in the Indies and Americas. Thes...

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The millennium girl development is targeted to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2014, and in all levels of education, by 2015. ... The Geographical location plays a dominant role in why third world countries are third world. ...

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The Millennium Declaration commits the international community and member states of the U.N. to the achievement of eight major goals. Two of these goals are the eradication of hunger and poverty and the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women. The third problem I will be discussing is ...

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