After overcoming such a long-term struggle, many women chose to stay home to maintain their families and not take part in the labor force. ... American societies held women inferior to men in many aspects such as their roles in marriage, suffrage issues, and work force participation. ... Now, earning a living usually requires leaving the home or even one's community to work long hours. This makes home and family, two completely separate aspects in an individual's lifestyle. ... I purchased a newspaper entitled, "Tenement Times,"" that noted: For wives, the tenement was both home and...

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Starting with women's suffrage and the women's party in 1920, the major change in their family and home life, the change in their job and educational opportunities, and last but not least their change in clothing and dress. ... Family and home life for women in the 1920's changed with the inventions of electrical appliances. ... Eleven percent of women ages eighteen to twenty-one were in college, and forty percent of the women who held jobs held white collar jobs. ... They also had a much easier home life with the newly invented electrical appliances. ...

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Yet, Miss Emily held her head high with dignity. Although everyone was saying "poor Emily," she still had her strong will and held an intimidating personna. ... But it was not a surprise to them when Homer left as the streets had already been finished. ... That was the last the townspeople saw of Homer Barron, and of Miss Emily for some time. ... Homer was lying in the bed, his body was "lain in an attitude of embrace". ...

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It was essential that the wife create a home, care for the children and generally run the household... The work of the upper and middle class woman was limited to the home and family. ... As far as other as other occupations go, upper class women are said to have held office. ... The title most frequently held by women was "mistress of the house." ... Becoming a widow held similar stipulations. ...

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Women were excluded from public life and were left to be in charge of home and children. ... For example, in certain societies Muslim men have prevented women from leaving the house or from earning a legitimate income, and have held that this is in accordance with Islam, which is not true. ... Forcing women to cover their faces and preventing them from going outside the home are practices that are not in accordance with the Koran, either, but have been perpetrated as such. ... It was also held that the perfect wife was one without a voice or opinion, so for a devout wife, her main purpose for...

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With the infamous potato famine wreaking havoc back home, the United States, having far better economic opportunities than Ireland, became home to the largest independent female migration in American history. ... In addition to factory jobs, Irish women also worked in mills and took up domestic work in American citizens' private homes. ... Although not all followed this way of living, some Irish immigrant families adopted a more traditional American behavior in their homes (if they could afford to do so), dividing the men and women into gender role stereotypes; the male was the primary pr...

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Such conformist, yet widely held beliefs forced women further into this male- dominated form of literary incarceration. ... In accordance with the concept of "contentedness, - for a woman to lead a satisfying life, it was necessary for her to have a family and a home toward which she could focus all of her time. ... Leapor notes the different perceptions held of these two people, as early on in the piece Mary's writing is compared to the "rhyme- of December, insinuating something that is disagreeable and lifeless. ... By concluding her letter with the words, " Tis one o'clock, as ...

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She attempts to instruct women in how to protect themselves from the pressures of the world outside the traditional home and services and yet also stay true to God. ... She also declares that Eve should not be held more liable than Adam, based simply on the facts that should women, or Eve specifically, is the reason for the fall, and then logically speaking, men, or Pontius Pilot, should be held responsible for the crucifixion of Christ. ... Lanyer uses logic to try and dispute the history of women's positions, she demonstrates that men have no true reason to devalue women, and that in re...

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Throughout many decades women have been struggling to be equal to men, both at home and in the work place. ... Others believe that women are better off taking the traditional gender role and staying home to take care of the family and household chores. ... Before 1981, women held no place on the U.S. ... Women in Muslim societies are supposed to stay at home, without an education, cover their faces in public, and stay segregated from men altogether. ... But this "glass ceiling" that has held women back for so long is slowly getting broken. ...

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The seventies marked the beginning of the Woman's Movement and the end of the ideals we held on what it is to be a "man" and what it is to be a "woman." ... Industry has been taken out of the home, and large families are no longer economically possible or socially desired. ... The roles of men and women in the home are becoming more co-operative than in the past decades. ... Today, it is not uncommon for a man to come home and fold a load of laundry while his wife is cooking dinner. In successful homes, the roles of all family members are changing, the roles of mom, dad, and the children....

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Wrights home for evidence. ... They imagine how she must have felt living a life in a home that ".. never seemed a very cheerful place" "..it's a lonesome place and always was, ..not having children makes less work - but it makes a quiet house." ... Peters says, "When I was a girl - my kitten -there was a boy took a hatchet, and before my eyes, ..If they hadn't held me back I would have hurt him." ...

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In the last half of the nineteenth century, Victorian ideals still held sway in American society, at least among members of the middle and upper classes. ... The true woman's place was her home, devoting their lives to creating a nurturing home environment. ...

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Traditionally, the man must take care of the woman both financially and emotionally while the woman's role remains at home. ... Intentionally, Jane's intellectual prowess remains held back. ...

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Imagine a working woman going through all this while performing at her highest efficiency possible to provide for her family in addition to being a home maker. ... In addition, with their exceptional dedication and militancy in New York City and Lawrence, women helped transform the image of the working woman.6 They no longer held a sense of dependency on anyone other than themselves and became appreciated for their willingness to fight for their causes. ...

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Advertising in the 1920's depicted women in the household and held them hostage there under the pretense that a " woman's work is never done." ... Over the last twenty-five years, it has become increasingly more embarrassing to be a stay-at- home mother. ... In today's society, advertising is showing little girls contradictory messages, to be the "sex pot" but to still stay at home and spend money but not too much money, basically to be every mans perfect woman. ... The domestication and sexualization in the future for women is to be at the home. ... Then to come home to cle...

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Mallard could not help but whisper, "Free, free, free." " She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. ... The social context of "The Story of an Hour" which held Mrs. ... She is not bound by rules of a society which keeps her at home and walking three steps behind her husband. ...

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Women have always been expected to fulfill the role of homemaker and does not do work outside of the home, while the men have been imposed with the role of the breadwinner or the creator. ... Continuing in today's society, it was all right for a woman to venture out into the world outside of the home, but the expectation of "dinner needing to be on the table" was still upheld. ... Nevertheless, some kind of genius must have existed among women, although it never translated to paper due to the place women held in society. ... Due to this mentality, millions of women feel the ...

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On the other hand, assumes the power to feel, nurture, serve and manage domestic and interpersonal life of the home. ... The deprecatory phrase "I"m just a housewife" typifies the low esteem in which this position is held in our society. ... Similarly, the ability to care for themselves and their homes has not been developed in most men, in such tasks, which they none the less regard as necessary for their own well being are disdained as "woman's work" - the chores of the inferior sex. ... They are not interested in vital interpersonal communication when they return home after a day&#x...

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These people are more often than not those who come from wealth and prosperity, who are never held accountable for their own money and actions. ... There's always something unpleasant, about a home built on credit and borrowed money." ... At home, Daddy used to tell me when he thought, then I thought the same. ... I have been your doll wife, just as at home I was Daddy's doll child. ...

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They were men who had wives depending on them at home, cheering them on, sending them provisions, and giving advice; sometimes unwanted advice. These wives were left at home while these men did their jobs to run the nation. ... She is just one example of what these women were like as they were left to their own devices at home. ... Martha was opposed when George was elected as the first President of the United States and skipped his inauguration, but she still stood by his side and held formal get-togethers and dinners at the capital, which at the time was in Philadelphia. ... "Drawn away fr...

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King Arthur had a knight who, when riding home one day found a maiden walking along and robbed her of her virtue. This crime usually held the penalty of death, but the queen intervened and begged the king to spare the knight. ...

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In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author takes us on a journey through the mind of a woman going insane. The narrator's writings, " this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind - are our binoculars into her private thoughts and failing mind. The main character is ro...

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Where we can vote, work outside of the home, and be educated? ... " * "Women should never work outside the home... Priests and minister held that women should confine their influence to home and children. ... * Because laws affecting the home are voted on in every session of the legislature...

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She did all of this at home. ... So, she learned at home. ... Their wedding was held on October 25, 1764, a month before her twentieth birthday. John was a lawyer and very often was not at home due to court cases he had to attend to. ... That women get no help at home? ...

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Perils Of Slavery Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative by Harriet Jacobs, under the pseudonym of Linda Brent, that gives a true account of the brutality slavery held for women. ... Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl focus on the challenges Brent faced as a female slave and emphasizes the sexual harassment she experiences working in the home of Dr.Flint. ... She moved into the home of her mother's mistress - a kindhearted lady who taught her to read. ...

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