A few changes that are very important include the different gender roles that women began taking on during World War II, the change in family values during and after the war, and the change in the mood of our country during that time period. ... In this movie a beautiful, blonde wife (Lana Turner) talks her lover into killing her husband. ... This movie was about a wife who is a suspected murderous, and covers up for her beautiful but bad daughter. ... These are all feelings the Americans had during the Depression when everything in the country did seem hopeless and disoriented. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Different countries and the cultures within them have different beliefs on what a woman's status should be. ... No one would even dream of a woman being president or making important decisions for the country. ... Hilary Clinton not only was the wife of the president, she spoke out in many ways. ...

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Although the right to vote in our country was restricted to wealthy, white men that owned property, women such as Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren and Hannah Fayerweather spoke out against justice. ... When a woman entered into marriage, it was believed that the husband and wife became one unit considering the husband the head of the family. ... "Let the ladies of a country be educated properly, and they will not only make and administer its laws but form its manners and characters."...

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The author does not like the ways of the Victorian times and its patriarchal society and dees not waste any time with 'thoroughly British dissatisfaction' the author sets the scene early on with the estate agent when he describes the house to family and sets the image of a typical Victorian family with George being the head of the house, provides for the family brings the money in and makes all important decisions, the wife knows exactly what her role in the family is having to beg 'George to see about getting a nice house in the town for season' although she does go on...

• Word Count: 1318
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This leaves Walter feeling inadequacy toward being a man because he can't support his wife and child, which is a major component of a man's honor (Gilmore 43). ... They have lived in the same rented apartment for years, Walter, his wife and son, his mother, and his sister. ... In America, even down to the framework of our country is based on the power of man and the "masculine mystique" (Dubbert 2). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The fact that Mary Anne Evans had to use a pen name of "George Eliot" as she was a woman and her works would not have been published otherwise, shows alone what the attitudes towards women were, that of sheer insignificance in the country and in the social circle. In Britain today women stand side by side with men, in the struggle for Independence, and are playing a key role in the search for a lasting peace and consolidated democracy for the country. ... However these changes in attitudes towards women have not been shared across the world, countries such as Afghanistan still treat women wit...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

That of sheer insignificance in the country and in the social circle. In Britain today women stand side by side with men, in the struggle for Independence, and are also playing a key role in the search for a lasting peace and consolidated democracy for the country. ... However these changes in attitudes towards women have not been shared across the world, countries such as Afghanistan still treat women with little or any respect and authority. ... Similarly, his reasons for choosing Bessy for a wife re-enforce this sexist prejudice. ...

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Discrimination on women in many countries appear at the time colonialism come. Before the colonialization -countries that have indigenous tribes like Indonesia and America- women have an important role in tribal life. ... Properties belonged to women and when a man married, he must stays in his wife's house. ... Or it changed clothes to be labor exploitation as we can see in developing countries. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The statistics for the wife earning the most has gone from 3 per cent to 15 for those that are in full-time employment. ... The figures of men who keep the wage and give a housekeeping allowance to the wife has gone down with more women being involved in the control of household finance. ... By that time it was time to fetch my wife from work." ... Although Mr Turner does nearly all the work he still lets his wife do the weekend housework. ... A time-budget study was done on twelve countries with urban populations beyond the lowest level of industrialisation. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He is the head of the family, the rock on which his wife and children will depend on for stability and financial support. ... One of the many great values that I have learned by serving our country as a military service member is the value of team work and co-dependence. ...

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America is a free country, where "all men are created equal", people do not have equality. ... Little girls, who dream of being president, have to face the fact that our country has never had a female leader. In reality, our country has not fully realized its potential for equality. ... The American dream is unattainable to most people in this country because the roles, which are expected for both men and women, are unrealistic. ... The Cleavers were the perfect family with a strong husband, loving wife, and two great kids. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

On each episode, the main character Heathcliff Huxtable (played by Bill Cosby) who was a doctor, and his wife Clair (a lawyer), taught their children a lesson or moral of some sort with comic relief. ... No matter where you went in the country, almost everyone had heard of the show. ... His wife usually would then scold him and then they would laugh. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. Shelley's mother was a pioneer feminist writer who had made her name with her revolutionary ideas opposing the patriarchal ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In all these countries, these practices are defended as requirements of Islam" (Jung 19). Since a woman's sexuality is considered to be one of the most immoral aspects to life to Muslims, many countries choose to almost completely wipe out the problem but just getting rid of female sexuality through surgery. ... This "sacrifice" as Catholics call it is very oppressive to women: "(it) admonishes the women to be "obedient to her husband" and to the man "to love his wife" shows the unequal status of women in the so-called parnership" (Ahmed 61). ...

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The spouses of civil servants - their husbands were needed to know what could be the level of difference between the answers of males and females and what do husband consider his wife to be and what are the ideological constraints do they both have in participation of women with men. ... In the following chapters the work will be based on the objects to compare the level of using political rights between men and women and to find out the reasons for "unequal correlation of representation of both sexes" in political sphere of our country. ... The equality of rights between men and women...

• Word Count: 5989
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate