Women were excluded from public life and were left to be in charge of home and children. ... For example, in certain societies Muslim men have prevented women from leaving the house or from earning a legitimate income, and have held that this is in accordance with Islam, which is not true. ... Forcing women to cover their faces and preventing them from going outside the home are practices that are not in accordance with the Koran, either, but have been perpetrated as such. ... It was also held that the perfect wife was one without a voice or opinion, so for a devout wife, her main purpose for...

• Word Count: 1848
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The employment of women in Islamic society outside of the home is supported by the teachings of the Quran. ... They must not work in jobs that violate Islamic law, such as serving alcohol, while performing works outside of the home. ... The causing of attention while outside of the home is considered against the will of Allah for the woman is to be silent and obedient to her husband. In Christianity, women are viewed and treated with a little bit better dignity than women who are in Eastern religions, however women are held accountable for the first original sin, which separated man from God...

• Word Count: 1779
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1071
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A woman who did not wish to marry could find work outside the home as a missionary, ironically though, many religious orders required women missionaries to be married. ... Economically the urban and rural areas held the same disadvantage for women because women were not considered citizens and therefore could not own land. ... In other words, the 10 hour work day further segregated men and women and those employers that wanted to hire women were now held to a stricter set of rules, consequently even less women were employable. ... Women were excluded from higher education and became more and...

• Word Count: 1651
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1037
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Imagine a working woman going through all this while performing at her highest efficiency possible to provide for her family in addition to being a home maker. ... In addition, with their exceptional dedication and militancy in New York City and Lawrence, women helped transform the image of the working woman.6 They no longer held a sense of dependency on anyone other than themselves and became appreciated for their willingness to fight for their causes. ...

• Word Count: 592
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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." ... Over the last twenty-five years, it has become increasingly more embarrassing to be a stay-at- home mother. ... In today's society, advertising is showing little girls contradictory messages, to be the "sex pot" but to still stay at home and spend money but not too much money, basically to be every mans perfect woman. ... The domestication and sexualization in the future for women is to be at the home. ... Then to come home to cle...

• Word Count: 1218
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As stated in Silverblatt's article, "Alvis Dunns's stunning history of how a Maya village, led by a group of seventy-three women, laid siege to the community church and held government and religious authorities hostage points to another gendered lesson in the making of community boundaries" (640). ... Homes functioned as workplaces, as well as workplaces functioned as nurseries and so forth. ... The lack of being officially politically involved in their cities and under male-dominated rulings, led to women protesting in their own ways, such as the women of Ixil-Maya who hel...

• Word Count: 1217
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1083
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 3387
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, if rosters where trimmed and perks like hotel stays for athletes on home games, and chartered jets for away games, were cut, there would be more funds and opportunities for other male athletes (Conniff). ... In making the interests and desires of the students the top priority, discrimination would be held at bay; thus, affording both men and women athletes the opportunities for which they aspire Proportionality is a gender quota system that has lead to the discrimination of men instead of supporting the advancement of opportunity of both sexes in education and sport. ...

• Word Count: 1259
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Contrary to common belief, women were important contributors to the popular movement during the French Revolution. They staged demonstrations and food riots, presented petitions to the National Assembly, and brought the royal family back to the governmental capital. They agitated ceaselessly for ...

• Word Count: 3295
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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."...

• Word Count: 1568
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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. ...

• Word Count: 1463
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FGM, or Female Genital Mutilation, has been practiced worldwide for several thousand years in more than thirty countries throughout the world. While it is mostly practiced in muslim countries, some may be surprised that it's not isolated to such areas; rather, it has been reported in lower Africa a...

• Word Count: 1782
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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. ...

• Word Count: 2469
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate