Going into an art gallery and looking around, there are only 5% of exhibits whose artists are female, while 85% of the exhibits were nude pictures or sculptures of women. "Why are there no great woman artist?" ... A group of feminist activist artists refused to conform to the pro-masculine way of expression, and the concept of "men are better then women", yet they were surrounded such a way of thinking. If they wanted to overcome this restraint, then they would have to discover a world which belonged wholly to women. ... Assisted by 21 female students of Art, they turned a derelict Hollywo...

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Women were regarded as less than equal to men and were afforded responsibilities such as cooking, cleaning, and birthing children. ... "...For people born and educated as we have described, then, there is, I believe, no correct way to acquire and employ children and women other than to follow the path on which we first set them.... Socrates states, "Then, my friend, there is no pursuit relevant to the management of the city that belongs to woman because she is a woman, or to a man because he is a man; but the various natural capacities are distributed in a similar way between both c...

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But in the workplace, no such excuse would be possible. ... According to the Department of Labor Statistics, in 1999, there were 10.5 million married couple households where only the husband was employed, up from 10.2 in 1998 (Employment Review). ... Overall, the social roles of the past were substantially different; women were by far thought to be the weaker sex, and there was no denial of the fact that a male was more physically capable to serve his country in the military. ... But, if a female has the aspirations to be in the military, then she has the honest desire to serve her country. ...

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But in the workplace, no such excuse would be possible. ... According to the Department of Labor Statistics, in 1999, there were 10.5 million married couple households where only the husband was employed, up from 10.2 in 1998 (Employment Review). ... Overall, the social roles of the past were substantially different; women were by far thought to be the weaker sex, and there was no denial of the fact that a male was more physically capable to serve his country in the military. ... But, if a female has the aspirations to be in the military, then she has the honest desire to serve her country. ...

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There are many ideas and opinions that people believe women should and should not be, according to 17th-19th century ideas. ... Women were expected to act as these shallow, emotional creatures that had no depth mentally and could serve as helpless, reliant, and obedient wives to their ruling and overbearing husbands. ... It gives women a chance to grow as a person and then, as a result, potentially share the good works with the family. ... Women should be given the rights and freedoms and liberties as men are given, and not left to just be submissive creatures that rely on beauty and have n...

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On the other hand, the expectations of men in Corinth were quite different. For men, there were no laws pertaining to the idea that men must remain loyal and sincere to their wives. ... Suppose then, it is more useful to discover the "wrinkles" within the foil between the crucial characters of the play. ... No craft of yours will find a way of staying in my city (26-27). ... Certainly, Medea is no victim or weak minded to the power and whims of the male race. ...

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Women are paid less and are given less or no career prospects, unlike the men. ... All were 'semi-skilled' with no career ladder or promotion prospects, minimal training, and the same low pay. ... If it were more profitable to employ men in world market factories to do the jobs done by women in the developed world, then this is that these capitalist firms would implement this (Elson & Pearson, 1981). ... There were warnings of structural problems the day before the building collapsed, but these were ignored. ... Many production companies then shifted to 'Tiger countries' ...

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But to have any hope, certainty or believe we should firstly investigate the current situation that can give us a full picture of what chances we- females do have and do not and then what of them we are expected to get. ... In the Field Research there are all the data that were available reported and also those that were designed to show the results that this investigation contained of. ... Mainly, there will be answers on the questions about solving the problems that were highlighted earlier and do we need something to be done, and if yes, then what should be done in order to increase the a...

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He indicates that man is the gardener in life, sowing his seed; the woman is there to cherish and protect those that he has sown by being an " angel keeper". ... Although she was poor she did not turn to prostitution for money, she was an "honest" and chaste girl, who was loved and then abandoned by wealthy men. She lived in an "old-world village", (verse 4), where there would perhaps be no factory or industrial jobs available. ... Henry Mayhew wrote, " young girls were mostly compelled to resort to prostitution to eke out their subsistence", (Henry Mayhew, "Prostitution among Needlewo...

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I knew he would say no.... With all the domestic work Mattie and other women in her situation had to do, there was no time for them to pursue their dreams and they were forced to be selfless. ... "If Miranda were a man, no one would notice anything about her except how good she is at her job.... There is a sequence of shots of 'attractive' models dressing for work compared to Andy getting ready in the morning. ... It is then revealed later in the movie that Andy drops down a size in clothing to "size... 4" where she is then congratulated by a coworker. ...

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"1 Women were in the right to pursue protection for themselves during the progressive era and if not for themselves then at least for people like them. ... Women were not safe in the public sphere especially within the labor force, enduring harsh working conditions, sexual harassment and unequal pay. Furthermore, to tackle their obstacle, if women were to improve their wages and working conditions through labor organization, they were going to have to find assistance from allies of gender, not of class.2 From this explanation The Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) was established wit...

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Since Behn was a single female commoner, there are very few historical records of her and her past. ... Her independence in becoming a writer was a bold choice in a time when women were completely dependent on men for stability and the majority of writers were male. ... These works generated Aphra Behn's career and established her as a serious writer, then and now. ... Early modern British women were limited by one of three futures. ... Therefore, Behn concludes The Rover with the attitude that libertine women have no place in England during the Restoration. ...

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Receivers observe the behavior of characters in the media and then internalize these behaviors as norms. ... Case in point is the game show "Wheel of Fortune" in which Vanna White serves absolutely no purpose other than to turn over the letters and to stand and look beautiful. ... Growing up as a child I often wondered why there were hardly any female super heroes that I could emulate. ... This allows some women to judge their success based on the sole fact that if they are married with children then their lives are either incomplete or unsuccessful. ... There is no doubt that these represent...

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Women were excluded from public life and were left to be in charge of home and children. ... While it is true that some verses of the Koran do call for men and women to control the way they present themselves to each other in order to encourage self-restraint, there is no actual requirement for women to cover their faces. ... Hindu cultures, on the other hand, have no excuses as they have no defintive text to govern their behavior. ... According to traditional Hindu texts, there are three values relating to a girl when she is born: wedding gift, dowry payment, and abandonment. ... Women woul...

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One of the major drawbacks for women concerned the decision to start a family, it was expected that a working woman, becoming a mother would leave her employment in order to stay at home and raise her children, as there were no legal obligation for the employer to hold her job, the woman would find herself forced to seek alternative employment when she returned to work. ... Many cases similar to the above were dissmissed in the late seventies and early eighties, many of these cases involved women challenging the seniority of male workers in cases of both promotion and pay disputes; but a majo...

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This shows how in Elizabethan times women were thought of as little more than possessions. ... To this question Don Pedro answers "Nothing, unless you render her again ", here, instead of meaning that there is nothing that could match her preciousness, he is implying that there is nothing that can match her deceptiveness and treachery. ... Claudio then gives Hero back to Leonato and tells him not to give "this rotten orange to your friend ". ... The huge amount of attention directed at Hero's deception only highlights the fact that she is no longer a virgin. ... Although the pair show a g...

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For example, people in the Trobriand Islands were asked "Who is a child's father?" ... This revolves around the fact that human females allow no overt signs of the time when they are ovulating. Female primate species all have menstrual cycles similar to that of human woman, but in contrast, there is a distinct signal- that male primates respond to- that indicate "ovulatory readiness." ... From the reading, one could gather that no such explanation exists. ... Upper-class men would sometimes have several wives, but usually no more than three; however most marriages were monogamous. ...

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At no stage were women included with in the definitions of citizenship. ... Condorcet stood with only a handful of men on supporting women's rights, but there were numerous amounts of women who were ready and willing to speak up and demand what they deserved, most notably Olympe de Gouges. ... There were fourteen women among those arrested during the protests against the steep rise in prices of flour and bread, other wise known as the 'flour war' of 1775. ... A small delegation of women- four to six- were permitted to approach the king who gave them reassurances that there would...

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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." ... If you were not a working mother, you were basically shunned upon. ... There is a " hidden agenda" in the business of advertising, media, and commercial world. ... Then to come home to clean, cook and to still look amazing for her husband and children. ... There are no boys present in any of their commercials. ...

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The standard set to consider the "goodness " of a woman in this time period, then, must be her level of subscription to the patriarchal society in which she lives as well as her awareness of her role as woman in relation to that of a man. It is no secret that there was an extreme inequality amongst men and women in the medieval period where middle English literature resides. ... Because she stays and makes no attempt to depart the ark, her eventual obedience to her husband and God makes her, by definition, a good woman. ... However, one can also argue that what she does is no different than ...

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And because Louisa was unmarried and seemingly had no desire to do so, it was common belief that she had no hope of a prosperous future. ... However, Freeman describes it as "the greatest happening of all – a subtle happening which both were too simple to understand – Louisa's feet had turned into a path, smooth maybe under a calm, serene sky, but so straight and unswerving that it could only meet a check at her grave, and so narrow that there was no room for any one at her side" (656-57). ... Then she went out into the garden with a little blue crockery bowl, to p...

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In her article, "Body/Politics: our bodies triumphed-, Alison Young explains how women who protested at Greenham Common were allowed to express their emotions, in contrast to other movements who favored the use of reason over the expression of feeling: "Emotion or feeling is there (in other movements) denigrated in favor of a faith in reason, that is, rationalism which seeks to expel emotion- (Young 354). ... Since she is a teenager, she makes evident her belief about men and women being the same when referring to a boy at a high school dance: "Susan, there is absolutely no difference between ...

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She uses her "Wyll" as a preparation of death, like all other wills, differing in the aspect that many things that were left, were not left to specific persons, but instead to the situations or problems that Whitney felt mistreated women. ... 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. ... Amelia Lanyer, unlike Isabella Whitney, tries to persuade a change in the opinio...

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Even if no one finds out, knowing that you have done something daring gives oneself a sense of self worthiness and praise. ... Alicia's mother and father were not there for her as a child and so Alicia rebelled by leering herself into becoming better than them and by breaking the predetermined history she would be given had she walked in her parents footsteps. ... Her primary relationships were with African American men of whom her family didn't approve"(38) this is a so called positive rebellion because Alicia found "educated African American men easily"(38) in other...

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However, up until the last forty years women were being deprived of these things. ... There are three basic parts of Title IX as it applies to athletics. ... For example, if there is a men's basketball there must also be a women's basketball team. ... For example, if forty percent of the population is female then forty percent of the athletic teams must be female as well. ... If the public does not support women's teams, then there will never be the type of economic revenue to make women's sports even a fraction as successful and idolized as men's. ...

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