In both cases, each woman is married to a rather forceful husband. ... They both take place in a time in history where it was basically expected of a young woman to get married and bear and raise children, whether that was what she wanted to do with her life or not, and regardless of her own aspirations, dreams, or any other facet of her previous life. ... The young woman in Machinal got married to her husband because, as a woman, she did not know what else to do. ... It seems that she does not really even want to get married to her boss in the first place; she just wants to do what is expecte...

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This way she gets the best of the both world. ... A part-time job allows mothers to basically get the best of both worlds. ... This way, the family stays happy and financially sound, while at the same time, the mother doesn't get too unsatisfied with her life while taking care of the kids all at once. ...

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In the case of King Oedipus, Oedipus married his mother without knowing before hand. ... She finally married a man for love and not his wealth. ... They plot to get rid of her husband so they can be happy together. ... She gets her children and her husband back in the end. ... It appears as time goes on women get a little more freedom and rights. ...

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For instance, Blanche seeks for an adequate man to get married and make her living. ... She wants to get married with Mitch not because she's in love with him but for her economic security. ... For example, women who were not married over 30's used to be called "old maids". So, Blanche strives to get married to raise her social status. ... If women had been equal to men as today, they wouldn't have accepted the conditions they encountered with, such as Stella could get divorced with Stanley, because he keeps applying physical violence on her. ...

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Nowadays (in most places) marriage isn't just about money or social status, to be with someone for the rest of your life you get to make a choice, a choice women didn't used to have a right to. ... Once a woman got married, she could not continue to work outside of the house, now her job consisted of taking care of the home, husband, and possible future children. ... This realization she has and how happy she was is proof of how unreachable freedom seemed to married women in those times, a freedom we were born into. ... Couples, not necessarily married, are unfaithful to their partne...

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People from the future may seem to believe that its customary to get one wife then divorce her and pick up another one. ... In the future they might not even get married, so maybe their interested in seeing what it was like to be married or divorced. ...

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As a teenager, her main goal than became, in her words, " I had to get the hell out of my mother's house. " I found it to be very note worthy and interesting that Johnson was one of the first black students to integrate Garrison Junior High; which at the time had only white students. ... Johnson married when she was eighteen, and admits that she married for the wrong reasons; pregnant, but not in love. ... Her response was, "I will get two jobs"." ... Like a true love story, Johnson was able to find love and married her childhood sweetheart with her second marriage. ... When Johnson was...

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To her food was the only way she could be with Pedro and not get caught, a form of rebellion against her mother. ... First was the role of Tita, Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Francisco I Madero, and along with other labor workers, mirrored each other for the simple fact all she wanted was to get married and break tradition and all they wanted according to the module, on the Mexican Revolution, was freedom and their land back. Once they both were unable to get what they felt was entitled to them they rebelled. ... Mama Elena and Mexico's president Diaz, both used manipulation to get wha...

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English audiences in the Renaissance period would have been concerned with ideals of married life. ... Like his other romantic comedies, The Taming of the Shrew focuses on courtship and marriage and the various roles that the man and woman play, but, unlike most of them, it devotes a great deal of attention to married life after the wedding. ... The more the men talk about Kate, the worse the report gets. ... (IV.iii.73-80) Unfortunately, not even this is enough to get her as much as the cap in the end. ... However, when Bianca, who has married Lucenio and the widow, who has married Hortensio...

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People are getting married at younger ages now and to anyone they please. ... The party after and all the fancy smancy things they get with the marriage. ... Honey moons in the 50s were bonding points and breaks that the couple took to get away from things and celebrate. ... The use of technology has boosted the way one another meet and get things organized....

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She loves her father and stays with his family to be near him, but she is forcibly married off to a shoemaker. ... He eventually married an educated girl name Laila. ... Because of her status in the household, she tell, Marium"The children of strangers get ice cream. What do you get, Mariam? ... When Mariam's mother dies she is married off to a shoemaker who is thirty years older than her and initially seems to care about her. ...

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Women were to get married, have children, and live a traditional life. ... She wanted to live freely, as she did even when married. ... Being that her mother and grandmother were both married and never re-married, she did not see a need for female dependency on a man. ... She married Oscar Chopin in the 1870's after graduating from the Academy of the Sacred Heart. ... Her mother and grandmother, both widows, never re-married. ...

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Jenny Nordberg interviews many women but focuses mostly on a tomboy teen Zahra, a married mother Shukria, and Nader who remains in male disguise into adulthood. ... I will not get married. I will not get married for as long as I am alive" (Nordberg 143). ...

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Boy meets girl, girl meets boy. boy kisses girl, girl kisses back they fall in love, get married and have 2.8 kids and a summer house on the jersey shore. I know that's not how it always is, but that is what people want to believe. boys are supposed to like girls and girls are supposed to like boys because that's they way it was supposed to be. that's the way we grew up, learning that little girls should be prim and proper, to grow up in to beautiful young women and then get married to a handsome young man only to get pregnant and take care of 2.8 screaming kids, soccer games, b...

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When Peter asks Marian when she would like to get married, once again submissive, she allows Peter to take control, she tells Peter that she wants him to make all the big decisions. ... There is Peter Wollander who proposes to Marian soon after he finds out that he is the last of his friends to get married. ... She allows Peter to make decisions for her yet he even expects her to prepare food at his party by saying, " and then come on out to the kitchen and help me get things ready. ... Peter does not get what it means and in a panic, leaves. ... She spoke for the rest of the women in that era...

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You might get hurt because of that, Dear Why don't you try to be a teacher instead?" ... Since they know that they will get a baby boy, they start to paint the baby room with blue color and, later, buy "masculine" type of toys such as robots, car toys, gun toys, etc. ... Parents also read classic fairy tales to their children which imply the idea that all a princess has to do to be saved and get away from her problems is just waits for her Prince Charming. ... If a married woman goes out and comes back at midnight, the public would think that she is a bad woman who does illicit things. N...

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The gap between men and women is getting smaller. ... What if a workingwoman gets a call from her child's nursery school that he feels sick and needs to go to a hospital? ... " She refers to an interesting example; an employer has two equally talented workers, one of whom gets up in the dark and runs every day, and the other takes care of two children, getting up in the dark. ... Of the twenty-eight women who have served as CEOs of Fortune 500companies, twenty-six were married, one was divorced, and only one had never married. ... According to Nikkei Newspaper, it turned out that one...

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Also with the time budget studies it shows that women's position in the household has enhanced and that the amount of housework done by men has multiplied over time, especially with those people who are married to full-time employed women. ... Time budget studies also show that married women who have full-time employment do more hours of work which would include housework. ... Also their 14 year old daughter does the washing up; an example of how helpful children can get in exchanged-role households. ... He says he believes it's a man's place to work and that married women shoul...

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Traditionally, in the Qing Dynasty, a Chinese woman would obey her parents, stay in the court until she was married, and provide for her husband and bare children. ... When the time came her parents arranged a marriage, and honoring her parent's decisions, she was married off to a man she barely knew, because that was her destiny and role in society. Even though Ning's marriage was tough she could not get herself to leave her husband because it was her duty, and in those first few years of marriage she kept true to the Confucian ideals of women. ... Even of a more dramatic change we...

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The kid poured in tears because he wanted a purple ball but his dad did not let him get it because of the color. ... In fact it shows how Cinderella's goal is to get married and depend on his husband to be the provider. This influences girls to not waste their time on education or independence and that they have better goals to be fulfilling which are getting married and be dependent. ...

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In the eleventh century the typical married couple would be a housebound wife that has no self confidence and handles everything her manly husband tells her to while, he does nothing but bring home that night's dinner. ... She would get no education and was usually married in her mid to late teens. ... Lady Macbeth realizing that her husband cannot get the job done she "consciously attempts to reject her feminine sensibility and adopt a male mentality"(Asp,153) so that she can muster up the courage and the will power to kill King Duncan. ... Macbeth gets so caught you in prote...

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A woman also keep an eye on her son's education until he reached the age of seven, then his education was taken over by the men, and until her daughters left the family to get married. When it was their turn to get married, the daughters performed the tasks they had watched their mothers doing, which they had learned by practicing at their sides. ...

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So that's all I was to him, a burden, and had seized the first chance to get rid of me". Nujood at even such a young age did not understand how her father would get rid of her. ... Even after Nujood was married she was still not allowed any rights and again had to obey her husband and his authority. ... And she said "A married women cannot allow herself to be seen with just anyone". ...

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During the 1900's women's main purpose was to get married and look after her husband and children, they were treated as second class citizens with few rights. ... Possibly the most significant change was the move of married women back into formal employment. ... This ban was lifted after WW2, after women's efforts in the war, allowing for the first time, women to work whist married. ...

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Boys get blue blankets while girls get pink blankets. ... A clear example of male dominance can be seen when a woman gets married. ... If a man has sex before marriage, he is getting experience and exploring his options. ...

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