Until now, the concept/definition of "women" has emerged from the androcentrism of the patriarchic society, a kind of "women" in the androcentric mentality, which is also a social and civic misconception created to harbor and enhance the ruling status of men. ... It is women who desire the equality of all humankind, a relationship which challenges between the status or men and the statue of women, as well as to and oppose any hierarchical structures, laws and customs that cause women to lose individuality, to be subordinative and inferior. ...

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In her constant favouring of Tom, Mrs Tulliver repeatedly asserts Maggie's inferior status. ... Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. ... This image conveys the extent of Maggie's affront to social convention and the rebellious and sinful implications such as desire carries. ... Maggie's social education is seen in all its painful detail. ... Stelling's sexist views of clever women, and her father's collusion with dominant social conventions all educate Maggie into accepting her inferior status as a woman in a patr...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

That of sheer insignificance in the country and in the social circle. ... In her constant favouring of Tom, Mrs Tulliver repeatedly asserts Maggie's inferior status. ... Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. ... Maggie's social education is seen in all its painful detail. ... Stelling's sexist views of clever women, and her father's collusion with dominant social conventions all educate Maggie into accepting her inferior status as a woman in a patriarchal society. ...

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The immense disparity in wage equality between males and females is apparent by analyzing the status quo. ... All other variables such as education, work experience, and full-time versus part-time job status are kept constant. ... However, Webster's Dictionary defines feminism "as a theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes ". This means that feminism is based around the idea of men and women being held to an equal standard politically, socially, and economically. ... The goal of modern feminists is to attain equality in success, which are usually in the categori...

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The status quo of the male dominated World system is a social construct that can be overcome in the realisation that the characteristics associated with gender are not natural and neutral but are rather social constructs that do not hold firm universally. ... And so, in the quest to uncover the hidden assumptions about gender, the liberal feminist approach provided by the film affirms that the traditional norms of gender that have been maintained and evolved through social constructions can be reversed by the same means. ... The social constructions surrounding the traits we associate with ...

• Word Count: 996
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Feminists argue that woman abuse refers to anything a male has done or not done to his partner that is perceived as psychologically, socially, economically, or physically harmful. ... Violence against women varies according to income, education, age, marital status, employment status, religion, occupational status, and race/ethnicity. ... The family system responds to broad social-structural conditions that produce stress and conflict. ... The VAWS looked at income, education, current occupational status, and employment history. ... Marital status measures grouped widows, married and common-la...

• Word Count: 3590
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Feminists argue that woman abuse refers to anything a male has done or not done to his partner that is perceived as psychologically, socially, economically, or physically harmful. ... Violence against women varies according to income, education, age, marital status, employment status, religion, occupational status, and race/ethnicity. ... The family system responds to broad social-structural conditions that produce stress and conflict. ... The VAWS looked at income, education, current occupational status, and employment history. ... Marital status measures grouped widows, married and common-la...

• Word Count: 3590
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 even degrade back to traditional ideals. It is these social perceptions that challenge the evolution of women as equal on all levels. ... My grandmother through growing up during a time when women had few social rights, said she didn't experience oppressive sexism in her life. ... No one ...

• Word Count: 733
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At the end of the nineteenth century, America moved from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era where the social activists, politicians, and professionals called for social reforms in order to deal with the social problems associated with the rapid industrial growth. ... The Declaration of Independence that advocated liberty and fairness nearly had no influence on improving the status of women. ... Hence, the court's decision enhanced the prevalence of male supremacy in society, and as wives in their man dominated families, women lost their voices and status. ...

• Word Count: 1415
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Equality is a state of having equal right, opportunities, status, and advantages without discrimination and disparity among the people living in the same boundary. ... As per Ehrhart(2009), the life expectancy of people depends on the economic status which means that the life expectancy of the rich people is greater than the life expectancy of poor people. ... Thought the law states social equalities yet the social problems are unexceptional in Bhutanese society. ... Thought the social conflicts are not recognized formally, there are lots of social problems either unnoticed or neglected. ... A...

• Word Count: 2654
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Those middle and upper class workforce entrants that are educated in knowledge and culture are directed towards the higher status professions and positions, while the working class entrants that have gained knowledge suitable only to manual and routine non-manual work are primed for the lower status positions that underpin the capitalist labour force (Stephens et al. 1998, p. 205). ... Bowles and Gintis (1976, p. 266) refer to the social reproduction theory as a "Correspondence Principle" between schooling and career. ... These findings provide a clear link to their claim that the higher the ...

• Word Count: 2373
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It also fails to provide the correct social direction for the development of a society and its democratization. ... The politics until today remains the destiny of men; family defines the status of women in most cases. ... Shortly, all 103 respondents were people of both sexes, different ages and social status. ... The totalitarian society tried to construct true equality and improve the political status of women; the reforms of socialism could have a breakthrough effect in the development and resolution of this issue. ... Thus it undertook the functions of main official conductor of social...

• Word Count: 5989
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Because he was no longer a representation of Collective Dominant Masculinity, Sam's status was ruined. ... It is a much bigger deal when a male athlete comes out, because he has the higher status in the sports world. ... There is a power inequality built into the social structure of athletics that maintains female oppression. ... These ideas represent the Social Constructionist Theory, which is when male dominance is achieved through cultural beliefs that justify and perpetuate sex-based stratification systems that entitle men to greater power, prestige and wealth. ...

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This leads to treating Muslim women in a "contextual vacuum", with no historical, economic, social or political aspects to their oppression. ... Imperialism's destruction of the Third World is the main cause of the desperate social conditions of the Third World's peoples, including women. ... The low status of Muslim women today is seen as a result of misinterpretation of "Koranic injunctions", abuse of Islamic law or extra-Islamic influence. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They were also burdened with more complex tasks of household management and lived in greater isolation; thus reducing the female companionship of emotional support and social gatherings. ... However, after reading The Plantation Mistress, I have come to realize that the leisure status of the planter's lady is a fairy tale that I scooped up. ...

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I think that unlike white women who are so divided by class, African- American women can come together regardless of economic status because they have all had the similar struggles of race and gender no matter what amount they make. ... Therefore, more women of color could come together on social levels and talk about problems they face because it is most likely other women of color would be able to agree that they too are oppressed....

• Word Count: 537
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There are four other agencies under the administration of the Ministry of Women, Family and Community, Department of Women Development (DWD), the Social Welfare Department of Malaysia (JKM), the Board of The National Population and Family Development (LPPKN) and Social Malaysia Institution (ISM). ... It is also a drastic step to increase the number of women at the decision-making and encourage synergies of various sectors to improve the socio-economic status of women. ... The first one is developing potential of women from various walks of life and in all sectors as agents of change to the co...

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Radicals further this claim with examples of socialist countries that have achieved equality for women in a social and work sense. ... They see capitalism and patriarchy as now inseparable and working together towards continued inequality; one supporting the other to maintain the status quo; male dominance and control over woman. ... Socialist feminists take the alternative view that our gender roles are socially constructed, and can therefore be changed. ... They point out that only through changes in the existing social structure can equality become a reality. ... Its strength lies in soc...

• Word Count: 1571
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She was the wife and child of colonial governor, but her status could not save her from the maltreatment and contempt of women stepping over the line. ... In contrast, Jeffery Hammon proposes that for Puritan women, "social expectation coincided more closely with theological ideals of humility and self-deprecation, and this congruence of spiritual and behavioral norms may have permitted women to internalize the selflessness of the humbled, struggling believer more easily than men- (Sinful Self, Saintly Self 140). ...

• Word Count: 886
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She was the wife and child of colonial governor, but her status could not save her from the maltreatment and contempt of women stepping over the line. ... In contrast, Jeffery Hammon proposes that for Puritan women, "social expectation coincided more closely with theological ideals of humility and self-deprecation, and this congruence of spiritual and behavioral norms may have permitted women to internalize the selflessness of the humbled, struggling believer more easily than men- (Sinful Self, Saintly Self 140). ...

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Mary Wollstonecraft argued that to obtain social equality society must rid itself of the monarchy as well as the church and military hierarchies. ... Wollstonecraft's works remains as a cornerstone in women's rights and laid the foundation for modern feminism, which sees education as the access to achieve greater economic, political, and social status. ...

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In the 1860's action was taken by avid social reformer Madhav Govinda Ranade, who founded the Widow Re-marriage Association and the Deccan Education Society (which sought to increase young women's educational facilities). ... Not only did it see the founding of POW (the Progressive Organization of Women), but it was the year that the official Status of Women Commission published their report, Towards Equality, on women's low and ever decreasing status in Indian society. ...

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According to Carol Lee Bacchi, "Government and employers refuse to accept social responsibility for basic human needs such as child bearing and child nurture" (Doucet, A.). ... The opposing view that men's contribution to household chores should be minimal has showed their less importance to social responsibility. ... Men are as needed as women in the household in order to define and raise a family's status and qualities to set the right rules and morals of everyday life. ... The societal view of subordination is induced by the sexuality and reproductive capacity of women, ...

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In the past, stereotypical views of sex and gender that tended to place responsibilIty for sexual violence on female survivors dominated social and legal responses to rape. ... "Femi-acquaintance rape" is defined as rape occurring between persons who are socially linked. ... Thus, jurors more easily recognize sexual assaults as rapes when they occur between people without a prior social relationship. ...

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One of many purposes and definitions of feminist psychology, that Hilary Lips, author of A New Psychology of Women of feminist psychology is "to focus on understanding women's own experience, rather than on fitting women into traditional, often male centered views of human behavior and social relations" (12). ... I recently learned that feminist psychology and feminism has every intention in progressing women's status in this world by educating citizens in third world countries, today's college students, and our nations youth. ...

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