And in India, daughters require the disbursement of an expensive dowry in order to be married off, which is economically undesirable. ... The 100 most desirable men get married off quickly " desirability determined by things like education, income, social status, appearance, etc. The "quality " of the last 10 men that do not get married off is poor, or otherwise put, they are at the bottom of the food chain in terms of class and marriageability. ... In fact, projections state that by 2030 more than 25% of Chinese men in their late 30s will never have married . ...

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For example, there are many happily married couples that can face problems and still stay together. Fitzpatrick (1988:38) in Aries 1996 mentions that although there are unhappily married couples who fail to communicate effectively, research also shows that unhappily married couples can communicate well with other people. ... For instance, as mentioned above, the recent study shows that men have more gray matter that make them good in math, yet sometimes in school boys do not always get high score in math. ...

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Instead, women are beginning to focus on their own education and career before getting married, and therefore getting married at a later age after completing two to four years of college. In 1960 the median age for women to get married was 20.3 years old, in 2010 that median age rose to 26.5 years old (Cohn, Passel, Wang, Livingston). ...

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In today's world women are now given lead roles in movies and in some cases (though very rare) they get to be the ones who restore a sense of security or belonging to men. An example of this is "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", a series in which a woman gets to be the superhero and fight of vampires. ... When women watch music videos or any other form of media that inaccurately portrays women they get the sense that it is okay to dress scantily to get the attention of a man. ... A popular myth that is perpetuated through out the media is that a woman cannot be successful if she is not married a...

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In this excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft expressed her discontentment with the status of women in 18th-century British society. In her time, the main goal for most women was to get married. Before matrimony, she would do all that she could to please men and, a...

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The Government was keen to get as many females in to the workforce as possible, and therefore their propaganda gave somewhat a false picture, as sex segregation was going to continue in the post war years. ... Another viewpoint of the impact of the second world war on the status of women is that there was an increased welcoming to married women in the workplace. The census of 1931 indicated that only 10% of married women were wage earners, in 1951 that figure had risen to 21.74%. ... On the other hand, trends in married women in employment had increased greatly in the ten years before the war,...

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The chorus strengthen this unequal gender position by agreeing for Medea to get her revenge by saying "you will be right to exact vengeance from your husband". In Greek society women did not have the rights of citizens, married women were dependent on their husbands, restricted to cloistered domestic life and bound by obedience to their husbands. ...

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When the weather gets hotter, Stanley's behaviors become more irrational and extreme, as he begins "stamping with his feet, and whistl[ing] and yell[ing] and scream[ing] at the woman" (543), Harry has to make an overture "to save some sort of scandal or real trouble over the woman" (543). ... The author also shows how the woman is objectified sexually by the men's tone: "If she's married, her old man would not like that" (539), Stanley says derisively in a chastising tone, ignoring the fact that the woman can act as an independent autonomous individual with r...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities woul...

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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. Blatantly sexist laws and practices are slowly being eliminated while social perceptions of "women's roles" continue to stagnate and e...

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In addition to these inequalities, once a woman was married she would have to surrender her property rights, thus becoming the property of her husband (Legates, 2001: 17). ... Therefore it is necessary for society to get away from this model in order to achieve equality of the sexes. ...

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A female who has sex with a lot of men is regarded as a "slut", whereas a male who sleeps with a lot of women is praised as a hero and gets a nice pat on the back. ... Kripal explains cases of religious discrimination towards females throughout history which include genital mutilation, foot binding, inability to divorce, getting blamed for getting raped, dowry deaths, etc. ... In that same video, the teacher says, "God gifts every married couple with a child. ...

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Social Security acts as insurance for people who have trouble saving, and stated plainly, prevents the poor from getting poorer and the rich from getting richer. ... The percentage increase of working married women since 1935 has well over doubled and will be further investigated throughout this paper. ... Women who are married less than 10 years and disabled homemakers receive nothing in benefits. ... Social Security payments for widows are 67 percent at best the amount received by a married couple. ...

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This is achieved by viewing the attitudes of people in various stages of their relationship: A newly married couple at their wedding, Frau Brechenmacher's own marriage and that of a three-times widowed old woman. ... Following on from this, we then see Frau Brechenmacher banished to the dark, while the husband basks in the warm and light of the kitchen to get dressed, a visual indication of their relative importance, echoing sun/moon imagery. ... They had to get the priest to her." ...

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"Ere row forth, Noah, whither thou list, and get thee a new wife ("Noah's Flood " 73). ... The wife, being married five times " which already has her viewed upon as strange " admits that her first three husbands, all of whom she considered good, were old, rich, and submissive. ...

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What people have been looking at, though, are just their rights to be married and adopt children. ... In today's age, it is the struggle for those in the LGBT community to get the rights that they feel they deserve. ...

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Is Mary Wollstonecraft a Rousseauian? The fundamental relationship between man and woman consists of a bond through marriage. An ideal home would consist of a man and wife, with children born out of the loving relationship. Man is the head of the family, while the mother is the core of the fami...

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One of the worst possible inconveniences , that a hard working married woman should never have to deal with, is the burden of an unsatisfying husband who lacks the ability to please their beloved wives. ... The story clearly shows how desperate she truly is when she is sexually aroused by the tinker's interest in the Chrysanthemums she works on by stating that her voice grew husky afterwards her breast swelling passionately (Sullivan).This clearly shows the severity of the issue as Elisa has to resort to the tinker who she just meets as opposed to her husband, to get some sense of excitem...

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Some of the reasons for such a change in modern society can be attributed to the decline and then rise in marriage ages in the post-World War II period; increases in premarital sex, cohabitation, and premarital pregnancy; the heterogeneous pattern of venues in which married couples first met; the rise in female employment aspirations and actual work experience; the growing trend of residential independence for young people prior to marriage; the decline in religious "matching" in marriage over time; the level of religious vs. civil marriages; the decline in marriage quality and problems over t...

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The characters who are used to implement this theme are not only the women, but also the men, whom each have inverted gender roles in order to get ascendancy over each other. ... This gives Gwendoline the upper hand as she is able to get the proposal she wanted whilst adhering to the social etiquette and conventions of the Victorian era, subtly letting Jack believe he was in control the whole time. ... However, she must still wait till he has done so, which contradicts the idea that the women of the play are more powerful, as she has to wait for him to carry out the correct social etiquette be...

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Second women's heavier domestic responsibilities, especially child-related responsibilities, due to traditional gender roles means that they may try to "conserve" energy while at the job and get more flexible, less time-consuming jobs. ... Becker (1985) suggests that married women or women with children seek "more convenient" and "less time intrusive" jobs since they do the majority of housework. ...

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Women are rarely promoted to managerial positions and those who are must work twice as hard as men to get there. ... 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). ...

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Women are rarely promoted to managerial positions and those who are must work twice as hard as men to get there. ... 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). ...

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Oftentimes, the reasons males are chosen over women are ridiculous such as they are not aggressive enough, they may be married and thus have husbands who also provide so the extra money isn't needed, they are pregnant and this is a restrain to the company financially, and they will use sex as a way to get what they want. ... To carry this research, the first step would be to gather all resources needed to get an understanding of the topic and to decipher what answers may be gotten from the subjects. ... Women make the "choice" to quit work as a last resort when they couldn'...

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She explains that in the middle of the night she got up to get a drink of water, cold and tired she returns but to the wrong compartment. ... Stella (the new women) is traveling on the train quite independently with her friend, but upsets this public space by getting into trouble, emphasizing a patriarchal control. ... The audiences first view of Mrs Griggs is set well within the home, "Shots are constructed predominately from Mrs Griggs point of view, so that we get inside Mrs Grigg's consciousness and world view, seeing as she sees, suffering as she suffers."... Throughout the film M...

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