With the infamous potato famine wreaking havoc back home, the United States, having far better economic opportunities than Ireland, became home to the largest independent female migration in American history. ... In addition to factory jobs, Irish women also worked in mills and took up domestic work in American citizens' private homes. ... Although not all followed this way of living, some Irish immigrant families adopted a more traditional American behavior in their homes (if they could afford to do so), dividing the men and women into gender role stereotypes; the male was the primary pr...

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She attempts to instruct women in how to protect themselves from the pressures of the world outside the traditional home and services and yet also stay true to God. ... 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. ... Lanyer uses logic to try and dispute the history of women's positions, she demonstrates that men have no true reason to devalue women, and that in re...

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On the other hand, assumes the power to feel, nurture, serve and manage domestic and interpersonal life of the home. ... The deprecatory phrase "I"m just a housewife" typifies the low esteem in which this position is held in our society. ... Similarly, the ability to care for themselves and their homes has not been developed in most men, in such tasks, which they none the less regard as necessary for their own well being are disdained as "woman's work" - the chores of the inferior sex. ... They are not interested in vital interpersonal communication when they return home after a day&#x...

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The ideal woman in the Victorian Age had to stay at home, lack any sexual initiative, be selfless, and be morally accountable. She was to be the pillar of the home in both the physical and moral sense. ... This was in line with Victorian theorists who held the view that evolutionary reasons where the justification for the mental and physical differences between the genders. ... Similar to her, most women of the Victorian age had to partake in only their domestic duties and not engage in life beyond the walls of their homes. ... Consequently, death is the punishment for this fallen woman who ch...

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Many of these women in power had their own royal titles and insignas and lived in their own homes. ... Though still somewhat culturally and financially and gender role limited in some areas, in addition to being subject to political diversions and dirty politics by the men in their society, the Nigerian women of today are progressively being elected into political offices similar to those once held in the past, however, even though many Nigerian women become more politically empowered, they still continue to fight to gain longevity and a solid foundation in the political arena. ...

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These two definitions go hand and hand, "Gender socialization is the process through which members of society learn the values, norms, statuses and roles related to gender. " And "Gender stratification is a structured system of inequalities between genders. " So with this in mind, these two words are used to typically create the "perfect normal adult, " each gender is assigned a "role, " girls are too stay home, be a good mother and so forth and men are to be the providers, to fight and protect. ... With the boys they typically held their toys as well, but with one hand and dangled it from t...

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She was a part of a prestigious, "major family network of Boston's South Shore"(Akers 3) and her father was a Congregational minister in a society that held its clergy in highest regard. ... Their world was a private one, of home and family, "they were domestic creatures who depended on fathers and husbands to represent them in public sphere."...

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This also shows that Mattie knows her expected role to be the 'mother' at home and gives up her needs for the 'woman's work' loaded on her such as "cooking, cleaning, washing, sewing...... The people of the American Adirondack region held strong beliefs that a man and a woman had to be married before they had a child and despite the supposed love Chester had for Grace, he is also unwilling to have this 'burden' in his hands which causes the murder of Grace, and therefore the child within her. ...

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During the infant stages of America's development throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, settlers came over not knowing what their futures held or all the hardship they must first endure before finally building colonies that would grow and flourish. ... Employing rhetoric of her time, Murray argues over widely held beliefs that an educated woman would not be happy, and tries to prove the opposite without completely dismissing traditional gender roles. ...

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About 1,600,000 women had joined the workforce between 1914 and 1918 and held positions in government departments, in factories, on farms, in public transport, in post offices and also in business to name a few (Martin, 2009).Women became immersed in the male role which was out of their ordinary positions. ... Women's role during the war was crucial, as they helped organize home defense, and they provided themselves with uniforms and trained with riffles (Chenier, 2006). ...

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"Small variations in brain morphology cannot explain phenomena such as wage level, who drives on a date, or division of labor in the home, since each of these phenomena is mediated by social factors," they claim. ...

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Ironically, women in ancient India were held in high esteem. ... The British used the particular form that gender divisions took in India as a vehicle for proving their liberality, as a demonstration of their superiority, and as a legitimization of their rule.9 Britain seemed to overlook male supremacy both within India and at home, continuing female oppression. ...

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To further ensure anonymity, recordings were removed by the moderator after each session and held in a secure location until transcription by the researcher and any private or identifying information revealed in the discussions, was deducted from the subsequent transcript. ... 'My brother decided to be a stay at home and his wife went out to work I think his role was as valuable as his wife...

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