Struggling for a social, educational, legal, and moral status became the focus of the women's movement. ... To understand the importance of the founding of this society, one must be able to understand the social background of women. ... Women were even denied the right to property and control of wage status after she was bound in marriage. ... Ironically, in fighting for the right of freedom, women continued to be held down by their own social standards of fashion. ... The decrease of interest in abolitionism was mainly due in part because people began relating slavery to the social ...

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They have been linked to men through residence, housework, economic condition, and social standing to specific men. ... The "white worker in the North, her status as a free laborer was no different from the enslaved worker in the south"(Davis, 65). Women in the north faced social oppression, where as in the South there was racism due to slavery. ... Davis concluded that until everyone is free, there will be little change in the status of women. ...

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Certain text's such as Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique' explored the myths about feminity, and highlighted te role of social conditioning in shaping women's live's. Female's began to become more aware of their lower status and started to fight for theor well deserved rights. Nowadays, women are treated with as much respect and appreciation as men. we have managed to receive equal pay, vote, and be accepted socially alone with men. ...

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In patriarchalism, the professional standards and the important social positions are specifically for men, impeding women to improve their social and professional status. ... In "A Jury of Her Peers" women are not looking for a better social status; women are designated to be housekeepers and nothing more. ... Even though these three actions to displace woman, Glaspell references that women deserve the same social and professional position as men at the story´s end. ...

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Overall, the rights and status of women have improved considerably in the last century; however, gender equality has recently been threatened within the last decade. ... It is these social perceptions that challenge the evolution of women as equal on all levels. ... I would argue that the social pressure women must endure if they do not conform to their expected role is unfair. ... I feel that no one can truly be equal in a society when only the "extraordinary achievers" are allowed to succeed out of their expected social role. ... Now the real difficulty is upon us: subtle...

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Although, Stanton's feminism was not limited to suffrage, she believed that women had been predestined to an inferior status by unshakable attitudes based on Judeo- Christian tradition, English common law, American statutes, and social customs. ... Her behavior outraged the socially conservative portion of the population, including her father, and eventually even her liberal allies as well, including her successors in the suffrage movement. ... This stated that woman had unequal status in the moral, educational, legal, marital, religious, economic, and political fields. ... This costume...

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It is based on social, political and economic equality for women. ... These boundaries or blockades are better known as discrimination and biases against gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status and economic status. ... Throughout the book she has competed and won into her position to be up there with men on the social level because at times, she completely took on the characteristics of a man. ...

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The main aim was to make women the social equals of men. ... Only expressing the social concern of being equal to men, these women were not taking into account race and class privilege. ... (Hooks, pg. 42) Angela Davis also reiterates this argument by saying that black women have a history of working alongside the men, on an equal status, during the years of slavery so that, "Unlike their white counterparts, they could never be treated as mere "housewives."" ... Minorities' thoughts were not heard because they weren't in a social position that would enable it. ... At the same...

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Marriage defined social class for women during this time, so it was important for girls to get married so they could have an acceptable life. ... In the end, Benedick wins her over, as well as the social pressure to get married. ... Leonato really wants his daughter to be happily married so she can have a good life and be socially accepted. ... "Much Ado About Nothing" is a play that represents the status of women. ...

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Background Afghanistan is a country where woman have barely any rights due to traditions and laws. The Millennium Development Goal in Afghanistan is established to promote gender equality and empower women as the region has a history great gender disparity. In the 1980s women started gaining more r...

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Overall, the rights and status of women have improved considerably in the last century; however, gender equality has recently been threatened within the last decade. ... It is these social perceptions that challenge the evolution of women as equal on all levels. ... My grandmother, though growing up during a time when women had few social rights, said she didn't experience oppressive sexism in her life. ... However, I would argue that the social pressure women must endure if they do not conform to their expected role is unfair. The problem goes beyond social conformity and cross...

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These women stressed that all members of this movement should be equal in status. ... The patriarchy is a political-social system in which it insists that males are naturally dominating and superior. ... We see a problem in social inequality as well. ...

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In the 1860's action was taken by avid social reformer Madhav Govinda Ranade, who founded the Widow Re-marriage Association and the Deccan Education Society (which sought to increase young women's educational facilities). ... Not only did it see the founding of POW (the Progressive Organization of Women), but it was the year that the official Status of Women Commission published their report, Towards Equality, on women's low and ever decreasing status in Indian society. ...

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The status of women is what concerns in feminism. According to Jonathan Culler "feminist criticism is the name that should be applied to all criticism to the critical ramifications of sexual oppression, just as in politics 'women's issues' is the name now applied to many fundamental question of personal freedon and social justice" (56). ...

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