The belief the women can be little more than pretty is the sole cause for it. ... Women are awarded purely for their looks and are forced to use their bodies to gain sponsors and media coverage. ... Elite women receive only 0.5% of the total sponsorship between January 2012 and August 2011 (www.guardin.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/noc/women-in-sport-point-five-sponsorship accessed 21/02/13). The stereotype of women is affecting the participation of females in the sport of volleyball in a negative way. ... These uniforms have little technological, practical or performance-enhancing qualities. ...

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Advertising For Little Girls: Is It For Fun or Domestication and Sexualization? ... All of this goes with women's self-esteem and confidence with herself. ... In Barbie commercials, little girls are the main characters. ... It is not about choices, but determining the subconscious of who these little girls will become as women. ... Little girls become immune to the treatment women receive from those advertising around them, and therefore they accept this treatment as okay for them to succumb to when they grow up. ...

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In our society we see a girl as "beautiful" as thin and pale with little to no blemishes. ... Magazines such as Playboy claim to be "celebrating women's beauty." ... Although these false advertisements of women are usually in advertisements, one very incorrect depiction of women in which is very impactful is the Pornography business. ... Once you have learned to see a class of human beings as objects, or in ways that effectively reduce them to objects, it becomes much easier to use them as one would an object, with as little, or less, regard. ... The result of all of these subli...

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These three issues are discussed in relation to Indonesian women's experience in the twentieth century. The membership of Indonesian Women in society has been a struggle to define because the state has been reluctant to deal with women on an individual basis. ... In the last couple of years women have had greater opportunities for political organization and expression. Now, women are exerting more of their rights as citizens. ... With the continuing notion that women should be domesticated and should only contribute to the benefits of the community there will be little progress on the...

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Even then the statistics are amongst white women. Black women living in the south had no access to education. ... The legal rights of women were almost non-existent, black women had little to no custody rights whether to themselves or the lives of their children. ... When looking at the achievements of women in the early republic is it also important to understand that we are examining the achievements of wealthy white women and how the progression of these women left a residual effect that would ultimately trickle down to women of the middle and poor class and eventually to women of color. ...

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In urban areas; on the other hand, 7.4% of women and 2.4 % of men are unable to read and write. ... In 2001, legislation to promote education for females in rural areas was enacted but little change has resulted. ... However, the education of women is the key to reducing several gender inequality issues including violence against women. ... The lack of education prevents women from attaining sufficient employment, which makes them dependent on men. ... Peru has taken steps in the right direction by passing recent legislation to promote the education of women and preventing violence against...

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In a country where women literally have little to no power they are largely excluded from political decision making due to politics being masculine and male-dominated. ... If women had a real representation in the decision making process it would help in the implementation of the many policies that women have been fighting for, for over 30 plus years. ... The Afghan women try to apply unique methods to accomplish their commands on behalf of women. ... Women are susceptible to social, domestic, and state violence. Women currently are at a high risk for violence, without shelters and women h...

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​The representation of women throughout history has always gone unnoticed. ... " (Gilman) Gilman emphasizes the difficulty this woman is placed with just to have a little form of expression. ... Women according to Woolf are essential to men as opposed to men to women. ... With either extreme a part of the women suffers. Too little or too much may lead to extreme actions such as insanity or even suicide. ...

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A particular reason for using this building was that there was separate and secure housing for the unprotected single women. ... This was particularly inherent for the Irish women, who were considered by the women already part of the social order to be of limited femininity and conditioned with sexual immorality. Not all of the women who accepted the bounty were considered to be of moral ambiguity, some were respectable widows, quite literate and well-spoken with the highest of morals, but the majority were women trying to change their outlook, moving to the colonies from paupers and workhous...

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" Much of its public image is promoted through means of exploiting women–especially black women–through visual and auditory mediums. ... In many cases, the only space the industry makes for women is homogenous to an exploited and objectified conception of who these women are in order to even be apart of it. ... Women are trying to get out and move forward, but much of the media's content is allowing women to be fully liberated. ... " Aside from degrading a depiction of women with vulgar language and aggressive tones, much of this genre's content implies that, d...

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Similarly, in Macbeth, {discuss role of Lady Macbeth} The women of Othello also displayed characteristics of strong, modern women. .... ... Like many of Shakespeare's other female characters, Desdemona does not embody the stereotypical role of sixteenth century women. When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... In a conversation with Emilia, Iago's wife, she is first exposed to the notion that "there be women that do abuse their husbands in such gross kind? ... She is aware of the relationships between women and men, and plays an impor...

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In the 20th century one of the prevalent themes in these types of sterilizations has been the targeting of women for this procedure. ... It was around this time when we can find clear examples of the targeting of women for sterilization. ... The bulk of these were on poor and minority women. ... For the Indian women, however, there was little in the way of support to fight for their rights, in many ways their status as Indians made them particularly vulnerable, because as the public eye was turned to the perceived plight of the Black, the plight of the Indian could slip by relatively unno...

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What really attracted women to try these so called miracle pills? ... Women are drawn to the testimonials of individuals who experienced the product claiming its effectiveness. ... Seeing this result, women became attracted due to the fact that weight loss seems so effortless and easy. ... Women love that idea: losing weight and keeping it for a long time. ... In fact, the publicly available scientific research contains very little that would substantiate long-term or permanent weight-claims for most of today's popular diet products. ...

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Other groups that are constantly at risk include refuges, foreign travelers, pregnant women as well as laborers that enter the endemic areas.3 Fig1: Distribution of Malaria Around the World Malaria, however, is a curable disease if it is promptly diagnosed and is adequately treated. ... This means that for the people that contract the disease, there is little to none medical assistance available, which consequently means that the mortality rates, in these lower economical areas, is higher.8 Another barrier is the lack of adequate knowl...

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Women across the world often consider the grueling process of childbirth to be the hardest thing in life women have to deal with. ... Gilman makes it clear that much of John's almost paternal behavior toward his wife has little to do with her illness but more to do with how she was inferior to him in this relationship. John speaks to the narrator as he would a child, calling her his "little girl" (Gilman 652) and saying things like "Bless her little heart.... Gilman uses John to portray the negative way in which people viewed women in society during that time. ... Many phys...

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Though at the time when this book took place the Women's Liberation movement was in full swing though this movement did not have an important effect on Lakota culture because it just did not apply as Mary Crow Dog explained, "women's lib was mainly a white, upper middle-class affair of little use to a reservation woman." ... Now they say to our women; Lets you and me make a little warrior, after which they got lost making little warriors some where else." ... In the Lakota's ancient tales the women came first, as opposed to the Bible's women being made out of the man...

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Legalization of prostitution would increase child prostitution, doesn't protect the women in prostitution, and doesn't enhance women's choice. ... Women in prostitution have indicated that prostitution establishments did little to protect them, regardless of whether they were in legal or illegal establishments. ... Increasing child prostitution, not protecting women in prostitution, and restraining the choices of women are just a few reasons for not legalizing prostitution. We hear much about how to keep women in prostitution but very little about how to help women get out. ...

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Social In a society dominated by men women were second class. Men dominated public life, political affairs, and their households, they gave little freedom to women. ... Such protests had little effect in women's roles in society. ... But with the rich serving their own purposes, a weak central government, conflicting state interests, little was done. ... It may have helped the nation out of depression, but did little for any other causes. ...

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So, polygamy is possible in such a situation only if some men do not marry or, more usually, if they marry at a much later age than women do. ... This frequently happens due to disputes about women who are going to marry between cousins. ... This arrangement creates a situation in which pairs of exogamous lineages are continually allied through the exchange of women. ... In fact, women's opinions are usually little concerned and live in a husband family except the first certain period after marriage. Even little girls have to work while boys seldom get into trouble even if they beat a...

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Generally, parents dress little boys in blue and give them cars to play with while little girls are dressed in pink and play with dolls. ... Little girls are trained to nurture, take care, and be beautiful. Little boys usually receive sports equipment, toy cars, and Incredible Hulks. ... Women have to work two jobs: outside the home and within the home, taking care of the children. ... These viewpoints guided early interventions of counseling in that women were directed toward family, marriage, and motherhood while men were directed toward excelling in careers, which kept women financially dep...

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As illustrated by the party platforms for the election, the general public still had little say in politics, women were still battling sexual oppression, and labor laws and health and safety regulations in the workplace were still atrocious. ... By 1912, it is clear that the general public still had little say in the country's political system, as the Progressive party's platform promised to allow for the direct election of the United States Senators by the people. ... This statement is indicative of the fact that women were still the victims of sexual discrimination and oppression...

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Fuenteovejuna by Lope De Vega portrays timeless themes such as love, honor, the role of men as brave and masculine figures existing to protect the honor of women, and the role of women as fragile objects of love and lust. ... The play also deals with issues relating to the entrapment of societal gender roles, including the expectation imposed by both men and women for men to protect women as a natural duty. ... This depiction of a helpless woman being relieved of danger by a man who does very little, but just enough to protect her, followed by her falling in love with him for his bravery an...

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Unlike for their influential male counterparts, womens, poor families, slaves, and Native Americans lives changed very little due to the Revolutionary Period. ... Though voting rights were expanded, the enslaved, the poor, women, and Native Americans still could not vote, nor did their standings in society change. ... It also changed very little for the rights of slaves, women, and Native Americans. Throughout the revolutionary period, the rights of many changed very little. ... Women received more recognition for the role they played in producing morally sound men, but opportunities for wom...

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Olga Soffer, James Adovasio, and David Hyland envisioned that "[human survival had little to do with manly men hurling spears at big-game animals, [but] instead, depended largely on women, plants, and a technique of hunting previously invisible in the archaeological evidence-net hunting" [Hea98]. ... The idea that women could not have been big game hunters because of obvious physiological and biological hindrances did not dissuade these archaeologists from believing that not only could these women have been hunters but could have been women of many different job tasks. ... The previo...

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In addition, the afflicted were young women who made accusations pointing their fingers at other women. ... Consequently, this actually served as a stepping stone for women to be heard by society. Now, is this suggesting that the afflicted women presented lies and feigned their fits? ... All of these vulnerable women with little power; Tituba was the minister's Indian slave, Good married two times and was a penniless beggar, and Osborne was an old lady who had not attended church for one year.6 At the same time, on March 31st of the same year, attorney Thomas Newton strictly demanded that...

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