For most women, that meant not having secondary education or any career aspirations. ... Yet, in the last 50 years perceptions of gender roles within a marriage have changed. ... This change in the gender roles of marriage is changing what women can do with their lives. Women now have the opportunity to do more than be a stay-at-home mom - they can pursue a college degree, a career, and earn their own money. ... That changed in the 1970s with the invention of the Pill, reliable oral contraception, that became known as the sexual revolution. ...

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In the nineteenth century, women's entitlements saw a great change, for many countries allowed women suffrage. ... Though "(others) argue that women in Western societies have not achieved true equality in areas such as career opportunities and wages " (Women's Rights," Opposing Viewpoints In Context 1). ... However, some women in other parts of the world do not work because they wish to further their careers but instead, to survive (Jacobs and Walker 1). ... Women's rights have an eventful account that has led to many changes; nonetheless, women still do not feel equivalent to...

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In effect, women have followed up with the unfair perspective of lower career positions, goal expectations, and decrease in salaries. ... Biased views regarding women of domestic work triggered the feminist revolution of gender discrimination change. ... There should be an invention of a society truly committed to the caretaking principles which should be achieved through essential changes in employment structures and welfare laws. ... It is only a rational consideration for equalizing all career positions women struggle to excel in the way men do. ... Both genders of male and female can have ...

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It can be said the movement did cause a change in behaviors, where women were afforded equal rights under the law, the right to chose in in Roe vs. Wade, among other advances, but a change in attitude has not been seen in the family. ... Without a change in attitude, this trend will continue, as the parents of today were the first recipients of equal rights and have not changed, because of it. Even if mothers and fathers hope that their daughters will grow up to shatter the glass ceiling in a male-dominated career or their son will be a wonderful father, who will help change diapers and cle...

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Women: Role in Society The world today has changed in many aspects of gender related life style. ... The structural deflection is changing formal equality for a true equality or changing the goal of the organization or both. ... They are to succeed at a professional career, marriage, childbearing and child rearing, on a model of a male life pattern without public support in the form of federal of provincial maternity leaves, childcare, etc. ... The old fashioned thinking feel threatened with change of sex roles especially in power relations. ...

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This progress can be seen by the passing of the nineteenth amendment, ability to choose any career, equality in American liberties, and overall right to happiness. ... This means that working mothers may be reluctant or hesitant to fully take advantage in these policies since using them may hurt or stall their careers. ... Over time, feminism has experienced immense changes. ... In essence, this debate can be solved ethically because pay inequality restricts women professionally and leads to women being forced to choose between a career and motherhood. ...

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The second intention for the text is to persuade the reader that gender inequality is an issue and needs to be changed. ... Which in turn creates gender roles in society that cause expectations of people, such as: Career choices, mannerisms, and how people are viewed based on their choices according to gender. ... To counteract this, advertisements and products would need to be changed to a non-biased between genders. ... This is an excellent example of how the world is changing for the better. ... Simply changing a frame of mind to be accepting and not limiting someone because of their gender...

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This implies that feminist theatre is the creation of feminists who aspire to foster change, whether cultural, political or personal. ... In essence, feminist theatre should not be restricted to inspiring political change alone because there are several feminisms, each of which has several cultural and geographical representations. ... Churchill juxtaposes her with her less-than-successful sister who embraces family life above the pursuance of a career and ends up bitter and frustrated. ... Much more, however, her message appears to be one of women not needing to sacrifice career for family or...

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Dramatic changes came mainly with women appearing in parliament, receiving the right to vote that is equal to that of a man. ... Even though in small numbers, women began to be seen in some professions, up till then deemed "male," as they dared to enter careers such as law or transport, breaking down barriers, taboos, and prejudices. 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. ... The effect that the immediate family has on a child has changed quite signif...

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Dramatic changes came mainly with women appearing in parliament, receiving the right to vote that is equal to that of a man. ... Even though in small numbers, women began to be seen in some professions, up till then deemed "male," as they dared to enter careers such as law or transport, breaking down barriers, taboos, and prejudices. 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. ... The effect that the immediate family has on a child has changed quite signif...

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The women involved in the Second Wave were fighting "for women to share in the opportunities and responsibilities men had, including creating a career, pushing off the drudgery of housework, and refusing to be held hostage by their reproductive systems" (Baumgardner, p. 38). There was also a need to fundamentally change the roles that society saw women as being born into. ... The feminist movement has been fighting for this change in society since the nineteenth century, and many accomplishments for the female gender have been achieved in the process. ...

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Bowles and Gintis (1976, p. 266) refer to the social reproduction theory as a "Correspondence Principle" between schooling and career. This theory suggests that school and careers are closely related and that this correlation is essential for the production of an efficient workforce. ... As Marx's conflict theory contends, " conflict in the economic system is the engine of social change" (Stephens et al. 1998, p. 55). ...

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Gender inequality is a problem in the global village that has not been tackled deeply enough to make change for all. ... Conventional wisdom held that a woman could not pursue a career and still be a fulfilled wife or successful mother. ... However, Coontz points out that this low number is a result of women giving up their career to pursue their roles as the caregiver in the home. ...

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This inconvenience does not change the fact that the lack of male input in making the decision goes against the fundamentals of gender equality. ... Quindlen says, "Californians were willing to ignore Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged career as a serial sexual bigot" (Quindlen 2). ...

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As she puts it aptly, "Feminist criticism is a political act whose aim is not simply to interpret the world but to change it by changing the consciousness of those who read and their relation to what they read. . . ... British feminist critics regarded their own critical practice as more political than that of North American feminists, emphasizing an engagement with historical process in order to promote social change. ... Its subjects include the psychodynamics of female creativity; linguistics and the problem of a female language; the trajectory of the individual or collective female lite...

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Critically examine recent theories of Gender How do we begin to examine recent theories of Gender. Changes in women's conditions over the 19th & 20th centuries from the perspective of the French Declarations of the rights of man & citizen (1989). In contrast to the conditions that exist...

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Abstract Gender Stereotyping affects everyone in society, both male, and female, young and old and is one of the most researched topics amongst social psychologists. This study aims to discover if gender stereotypes still exist in today's modern society and, if they do, why they are perpetuated. Is it always for a negative reason? The study adopted a focus group methodology with fifteen groups of 7-9 participants, all university students (n=133). There were 21 males and 111 females in the study. ...

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Introduction A. Reasons for Undertaking Research. Today, during these democratic transformations, women are becoming more active in many spheres and trying to compete with men and take their rightful place in a new society. Historically the administrative structure is comprised of men and does not reflect the developing level of public potential and therefore on the opportunities or influence of women on affairs of a society, state and family. It also fails to provide the correct social direction for the development of a society and its democratization. ...

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