That is not to say that tremendous progress has not been made, however, after reading the works of writers such as John Stuart Mill and Virginia Woolf, the underlying limitations that some women are faced with have become much more obvious. ... (Gender inequality may play into the poverty of independent individuals -- namely females -- but that is an argument separate from this one...) ... Just take Virginia Woolf's description of such a situation that exposes these expectations when she says, "But then [after picking up a book] her parents came in and and told her to mend the stockings o...

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Although hip-hop is a male-dominated industry, women play an integral part in hip-hop's image, and as a consequence, pronouncing the sexism that has become so popular within the genre. ... Similarly, in Virginia Woolf's excerpt from A Room of One's Own, Woolf explains how the Elizabethan woman is not notably mentioned as a an accomplished literary writer, although her time called upon many accomplished writers (the only accomplished authors during this time being men), "One knows nothing detailed, nothing perfectly true and substantial about her, history scarcely mentions h...

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