She cooks for her family and tends to her children. ... She is portrayed as jealous upon her first visit to the Burden family's home. ... These girls came to America with their families to help out on their father's farms or the farms of other families to support themselves. ... As productive workers on the farm, they were better men than Jim and some of the town boys. ... She found joy in her family and within herself. ...

• Word Count: 2199
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In the film "Normal" Roy's transition from male to female was very hard on not only him, but also on his whole family. We see each family member struggle with this transition for their own reasons and in their own ways. ... He was angry that Roy was doing this to the family and to his mother. ... His father always wanted to have a boy to hand the farm over to, and Roy just wasn't that boy. ... He just thought that a woman could never do a man's job on the farm. ...

• Word Count: 1316
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The fox farm in which the narrator lives on is depicted as a place where the gender roles of men and women; and their daily lives are two separate worlds: The Farm being the men's world and The Kitchen or garden being the women's world. ... In contrast the father is portrayed as silent, the breadwinner, the financial supporter of the family, independent, and hardworking, even working after supper. ... One day a salesman visits the farm. ... It's not like I had a girl in the family at all.... He was now beginning to take over her role she once served with her father in the farm. ...

• Word Count: 1909
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This movie showed a destitute and struggling family embracing hope. ... For example, many women had to work in factories or on farms. ... Their overall goal was to find a man and then have a family. ... In this show the ideal family was shown. In this sort of a family men and women embraced their expected roles. ...

• Word Count: 1358
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

If the woman moved to the husband's dwelling at the time of the marriage she could simply move her belongings back to her family's dwelling. ... In addition to the duties in the crops, the women were expected to care for the home, their children, and of their family. Chief Standing Bear of the Sioux tribe wrote: "Women's work was to cook for the family, keep the teepee in order, and sew the clothing of the household members" (M. ... English settlers, however, refused to acknowledge the Natives' claims to the soil, and their farms and plantations intruded onto Indian women&...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5

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. ... While remaining in the domestic sphere she struggled with wartime shortages and inflation, ran a farm with least of help and educated her four children when their formal education was interrupted. ... Mary Todd, like Abigail Adams came from a distinguished family of pioneer settlers of Kentucky and belonged to the aristocracy of Lexington, with exuberant social life and a firm private education. ... (...

• Word Count: 1568
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On the farm, he rarely leaves the kitchen; he inhabits women's space: "When grandmother and I went to the Shimerdas' house, we found the women-folk alone. ... Antonia takes part in activities and carries herself, as a male would do on the farm, in an unfeminine manner that Jim openly criticizes but is perhaps, on some level, jealous of because he inhabits feminine characteristics. ... It can be construed that Jim's sheltered and privileged life prevents him from being taken seriously by his family, friends and the reader as a hard working, independent and self-assured man. ...

• Word Count: 2062
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Nigerian woman from the earliest time, used farming techniques to plant seeds in her garden in order to produce vegetables and wheat to feed her family and also to barter with. ... With the exception of clearing the land for tilling done mainly by men, and the current existing problems of not having sufficient farm technology thats tailored to their farming needs, the vast majority of food production in Nigeria still comes from women farmers who are known to be the backbone of food production in Nigeria. ... The Nigerian women of today, despite modernization, also continues to share ...

• Word Count: 1726
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her family had a big influence on her works, and the way she viewed society period. ... Chopin grew up in a wealthy family in St. ... The family moved to onto a plantation in Louisiana to operate a farm owned by Oscar's family. ...

• Word Count: 1852
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

About 1,600,000 women had joined the workforce between 1914 and 1918 and held positions in government departments, in factories, on farms, in public transport, in post offices and also in business to name a few (Martin, 2009).Women became immersed in the male role which was out of their ordinary positions. ... The Royal commission included recommendations on updating the legislative system as well as addressing critical issues for women such as poverty, family law and the need for a federal representative for women ("The Royal Commission on the Status of Women" 2013). ...

• Word Count: 2125
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate