As Murphy once said in 1931: "We want women leaders today as never before. ... - After several weeks of discussion the court concluded that because the Act was created in 1867, they looked at it from the time period's perspective and because women did not have the vote then, the word persons did not include women and that they were "not eligible to run for senator- (Evans 31). ... And after weeks of arguments, the Council finally concluded that women were considered "persons- in the BNA act and in their decision they stated: " the word persons include male and female sex women are eligi...

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Women were empowered as they never had been before, stepping in to the spaces that the servicemen had left. " They played an important role in agriculture, industry, the armed services, civil defence and other vital work during the second world war." ... In opposition to this marriage and birth rates peaked after the war, though again this was a short term trend. ... This is due to the trend that after marriage, women gave up working to look after a home, so it is plausible that a large proportion of these "new" workers were indeed those women returning to employment in the absence of thei...

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It took until the late 1980s before a woman could opt to keep her maiden name after marriage. ... It took until the early 1950s - a decade after women gained the right to vote- before lawmakers made away with this discrimination. ... European women only gradually acquired the rights on education, to work, and to vote after the Second World War. ... After all, he has to fight to regain or continue her love and not the other way around. ... However, after a second reading there is more to the song. ...

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Old writings within the 'Vedas and the Upanishads' label women as 'maata (mother) or Devi (goddess)', denoting worth and preciousness for women.1 It was male responsibility to look after women, brothers and husbands would look after their women by any means. ... Firstly, Child Marriage is defined as 'formal or informal union before the age of 18', although it's a reality for boys and girl, women are disproportionately more affected. 6 This simply ends any personal opportunities for the women, as from a young age they are to look after and support there hus...

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The panel will conduct public hearings and take public testimony before issuing recommendations on changes for Title IX. Proponents of the law charged that the panel is a new attempt to weaken the landmark Title IX law after repeated court challenges over the past 30 years have failed. ...

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One Feminist ideal that becomes popular after the publication of Les Misresbales is the slogan "the personal is political". ... Hugo's characters face a time period long before second wave feminism but still show the social and political actions and structures that lead them into plait. ... Rather, Fantine, after her time as a prostitute on the street is told by Monsieur Madeleine that she "has never been anything but virtuous and chaste in the eyes of good" he then follow up that statement by proclaiming Fantine as a "poor girl" (190) showing that she is sim...

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The first piece of parenting advice starts in the very beginning, before the child is even born; be aware of harmful teratogens and avoid them during pregnancy. ... After the child is born and entering infancy, they begin to move around more to which parents should have realistic expectations of what their child can accomplish involving the child's motor development and that it will take time for the child to perfect it. ... Piaget concluded that play detaches from the real-life conditions associated with it, an example is that toddlers using realistic objects such as a toy telephone to ...

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The reason behind choosing The Color Purple is that it can be seen as both a feminist and a postcolonial novel and also because of how the protagonist, Celie meets through few of the aspects mentioned before. ...

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Without volunteering her organ, Shelby would have been added to a seemingly endless waiting list and, most likely, would have died before the needed surgery. ... Annelle, Truvy, Clairee, and Ouiser all provide shoulders for M'Lynn to lean on after Shelby's untimely death. ...

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However, I had never before realized what a pivotal role women played in the traditions, even though they are often seen as part of the back burner in most of the traditions. ... The book also explains that after her death the rumors were exposed as false and Yamato became a sort of kami herself (106). ... After a look at the Shinto tradition a person may assume that they can fully understand the gender roles of women in Japan in relation to their religious experience. ...

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" The scene segues into a montage of different women being sexualized for the camera in cinema: a woman being sexually dominated by a man on a rock by the ocean, a woman disrobing before entering a bathtub four times, a woman taking off her bra, another her pants, and a final scene of a woman refusing to have sex with a man but giving in. ... After he puts her in this dress, she looks in the mirror, as he stands behind her, gazing at her figure reflection. ...

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As mentioned before, this will be done through comparing and contrasting Rob with male stereotypes. ... Before going to bed with an American woman, he outlines certain fears he has whenever having sexual intercourse. ... Before Laura put her foot down and left Rob, she was actually doing this. ...

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This scale can be used to explain a complex set of adhere behaviors including predicting coping with daily hassles as well as adaptation after experiencing various kinds of stressful life events. ... Fortunately after 1998 studied were concluded and changes were made away from an institutional style format to more client centered approach grounded in principals of social work fostering personal growth and understanding. ... In fact, people tend to hold on to beliefs based on incorrect or incomplete knowledge even after correct explanations are presented to them. ...

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The gendering categorization may begin even beforehand; since nowadays, due to the advancement of technology, parents know their baby's gender months before the child is born. ... Butler (1990), in her book "Gender Trouble", coins the term "performativity" and argues that the act that an individual does and performs is one that has been there before the individual came to the context. ...

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Title: An Investigation into Sexist Language. Name: Andrew Verrijdt One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physica...

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For years women have tried to overcome the sexist barriers of society. The industrialization of the United States opened a window of opportunity for women. The increased availability of jobs required fulfillment. Men could no longer fill all of the jobs available. Women became the answers. Fema...

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Each one of those movies has some element of losing ones virginity in it, take "American Pie," for example, which had the entire theme throughout the movie that Jim needed to lose his virginity before prom. ...

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Intervention/Strategy: A non bias non discriminatory classroom policy that students have to abide by and if not followed there would be an after school or weekend assignment working with a sexual orientation and identity self help group. ...

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Before the beginning of this sociological research there had been risen a big question of what means the absence of women in a governmental hierarchy of Kazakhstan. ... After that there is an explaination what do these results mean and did they really support the hypothesis or not. ... It should be noted that the majority of formal laws concern exactly the rights of women, including their political rights (Ibraeva 2003:11) Inequality between the sexes is mainly based on gender stereotypes, which mean that women's rights were limited both in traditional nomadic Kazakh culture and in the ...

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ANALYSE Doris Lessing's A WOMAN ON A ROOF IN LIGHT OF STRUCTURALISM Structuralism concentrates on elements within work of literature without focusing on historical, social and biographical influences. The term structuralism' contains the crucial word structure', which refers to the units that m...

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