Whether we like it or not, we are heavily influenced by culture, its gender roles and the media. ... Gender roles differ in each culture and it gives people a norm on how they are supposed to look or act based on their gender. In their article, Gender Roles, Amanda Ryan and Sadie Hoxmeier explains that, "Gender Roles have forced society to form a stereotype of what the 'perfect woman' and 'perfect man' should be. ... The media and culture has created false ideals for people to conform to which also shapes gender roles. ... In India, the gender roles and the way women...

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Medieval India was the foundation for inept gender relations within India. ... It curtailed the freedom of women, as India began to become gender dominated. ... Despite the frailness of their role in society, to overthrow the British Empire nationwide efforts were essential. ... The feminine qualities, and their roles as mothers, 'empowered women to find places in the public arena of protest". 17 In order to improve gender issues within India, women had to be active and pursue independence, to show men they were in fact of use. ... This is influential when specifying gender roles, ...

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How does it influence/shape with their gender identities? How do their gender identities, in turn, shape their politics and the policies that are designed by their regimes? ... We are also interested, in this regard, to analyze the role played by their male mentors (Nehru, MGR, Kanshiram) and how it helped in mobilizing certain discourses. ... It also plays an important role in the creation of identities and images of those in position of economic and political power. ... Gender, Identity and Politics Research shows that the restraints of family life are real trepidations even for privileged w...

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Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender and this remains to be a major barrier to human development. ... The world can progress immensely if we promote gender equality as several women have the capability to excel in so many aspects in life. ... The gender inequality index ranks countries by considering various factors; out of the 138 countries that have been ranked, Afghanistan is 134th. ... My family believes that promoting gender equality is the key foundation to a smarter and a much-developed society. ... Gender discrimination in the world will ev...

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In the course of the study the relations of gender and sexuality with spirituality shall be looked into in greater detail, while also trying to grasp the understanding of the gender in some prominent Bhakta traditions as well. ... She highlights the idea that the woman's role is perceived to be confined to the household, as the wife and the child-bearer or the mother. ... For her, it is therefore glaringly true that even though transcendence from the superficial ideas of gender is sought in traditions such as Bhakti, men and women look at spirituality differently and embark on the spiritu...

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In terms of the area of early childhood care and education, primary education, gender, youth and adolescents, adult education and quality of education, India has see to made constant improvements. ... Education not only helps in the provision of better job opportunities, an improved standard of living and higher salary, it has been shown that when children are educated better in schools, it raises their political awareness, they move forward from traditional notions and there is an overall increase in gender equality (IPCD, 2014). ... Cultural factors however, may play an intermediate role as ...

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On the other hand, women's traditional daily roles and relations are disrupted as they have now access to the job industry (Patel, 2008). Thus, the question we asked ourselves is: What is the effect of neoliberal globalization on gender, concerning Indian women working in the call center industry? ... Neoliberal globalization is however far from gender-neutral, because this process is supervised by colonial authorities. ... From this we see that, even though some women gained a sense of independence, gender relations are barely being influenced in a positive way by neoliberal globaliza...

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In line with the UN's fundamental role to support national development efforts, the UN also responds to national partners' requests to develop capacity and fill technical gaps where they exist. ... In addition, girls and women in India face gender discrimination at every stage of their life, at times starting even before they are born. ... Gender inequality is thus pervasive and cuts across class, caste, religion and geography, and violence against women is on the increase. ... The challenge is to promote gender equality and gender balance. ... Outcome 3 Gender Equality Government...

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Hence, as a result to find the answers to the questions raised in the above, gender inequalities, religious interpretations of women and men, economic factors and social discourses will be the key elements which will be discussed in depth throughout the essay. ... Therefore, it was this gender inequality, which in fact pushed women into sex industry since prostitution seemed the only profession or the last option they can think of which would bring more earnings than other jobs, although it would mean selling their body. ... Therefore, this essay tries to argue that gender inequality is an i...

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Keywords- Tuberculosis, epidemiology, India, DOTS, Incidence, Prevalence, Mortality, gender, smear positive INTRODUCTION India is one of the 22 high Tuberculosis burden countries in the world with 26% of the total TB cases of 2012 from India. ... The table shows Total Smear Positive cases recorded year wise and the gender distribution of smear positive cases in various age groups. No substantial data was acquired for similar gender and age correlation of smear negative cases, extra pulmonary cases or for treatment outcomes. ... Figure 8 TB smear positive cases in different gender group Gen...

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The Indian caste system is a closed system of social stratification where people in Indian are differentiated through class, religion, region, tribe, gender and language (Desphande, 2011). ... Undoubtedly, the depiction of women's roles in Hindu law books such as the Dharma-Satras and Laws of Manu (200C.E) support this notion. These texts graphically depict women as subservient, serving and needing attention and so far as illustrates the role of females as a wife to bear her husband's children (Van Ham, 2008). Consequently, the archetypes and the role of women found in Hindu texts ...

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In this reversal of roles, the lower castes mingle freely with the upper ones and acquire the liberty to play pranks on their social superiors. ... On observing these interactions, Marriott interprets this reversal of roles as leading to greater love and understanding of the other. He also stresses that because there exists a feeling of love towards the other that there is a willingness to reverse roles, thus resulting in a mutual reinforcement of reversal and reciprocation. ... This statement of Krishna's readiness to deny his divine status and project himself as an ordinary mortal, pla...

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He gives three different endings to Eunice's life, which parallel her numerous experiences: one coinciding with her part in the Catholic lifestyle; one from her homeland of New England; and one from her role in the Kahwanake society. ... He clearly defined the differences in the family lifestyle, the gender roles, the religion, and the discipline tactics. ...

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To conclude I will assess the objection of gender inequality in regards to the fair trade model. ... Because men are unable to enter this market it can alleviate market competition and gender stereotypes for earning potential. ... By allowing surrogacy contracts with fair trade regulations to take place we regard the interests and appreciate the role of both parties. ...

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The role of watch-dog institutions such as UPSC was significantly undermined. ... At present the country is facing disintegration of society in the form of communal divide, the developed and the underdeveloped divide, gender, caste and race discrimination. ... Granted that there are bureaucrats who are intelligent and hardworking too Parthasarthy says a bureaucracy with a smaller role and greater transparency should be created with a Civil Service board to control postings, promotions, and transfers. ...

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The government and voluntary agencies have joined in order for the society to find ways to solve these issues and strive for equal opportunities for people from all income levels, and gender. ... As in India, family also plays a large role in Vietnamese culture. ... The advertisements seen and major celebrities in India all are more highly praised and are given better roles based on how light their skin is. ... Our group-wide Equal Employment Opportunities & Diversity Policy emphasizes that we recruit and promote employees on the basis of their suitability for the job without discriminati...

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Gender issues- On the whole, male rural laborers are able to transfer to non-farm employment and also to demand higher agricultural wages from their employers, the same is not true of female rural laborers. ... This sharp gender differentiation indicates poor rural women's lack of education, in relation to men. ... (Non-Farm Employment, Gender, and Poverty in India. ...

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As Aneela Sltana stated in 'Gender Excavations: Understanding Woman's Beauty in Space and time' article that "Visual representation of women is a subjective matter which depends on individual perception. ... Therefore because culture varies from country to county and even within the cities, the big role in identifying beauty is played by how society views and teaches their members on how and why people should consider one person as more attractive than the other. ... Though out times people were always comparing themselves to others and history of the country, civilization play...

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Poverty, accounted for 21.9% of total population (World Bank 2011), and attitude against female education cause widespread illiteracy, especially in many rural areas (Thomas 2012) and the gender gap in educational levels are problems. ... Its role is an advisor for informal sectors. ...

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IHRM not only plays pivotal role in recruitment, training, payment, severance of staff, and maintaining good relations with customer as HRM, but also it involves greater risk and obscurity, it further deals with expatriation, laws and governance of foreign countries, getting information for concerning skills and talents, rate of pay, demographics, environmental laws, for subsidiary in Foreign countries. ... India is relatively is young Country with over 700 million people are under the age 35 year and average age only 25 year that could play pivotal role in achieving growth forecast that pote...

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IHRM not only plays pivotal role in recruitment, training, payment, severance of staff, and maintaining good relations with customer as HRM, but also it involves greater risk and obscurity, it further deals with expatriation, laws and governance of foreign countries, getting information for concerning skills and talents, rate of pay, demographics, environmental laws, for subsidiary in Foreign countries. ... India is relatively is young Country with over 700 million people are under the age 35 year and average age only 25 year that could play pivotal role in achieving growth forecast that pote...

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In addition, the clothes men and women wear plays significant role: during the weddings people wear bright cloth with numerous jewelries, whereas the funeral are spent in white clothes. ... She left work and fame for her husband and accepted a role of a supportive element of his life. ... Though Indian culture assimilated many elements from Western, Indians have maintained their very nature that represents gender, class, and ethnicity of South Asia peoples. ...

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1492 Columbus sailed to the West Indies leading a chain reaction of future navigators and explorers to come forth in exploration to the land of the west. No, Columbus did not discover a new country that no one knew about because native habitants were already settled in the Indies and Americas. Thes...

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For Marx, globalization referred to the domination of capitalism, which has and continues to, play a leading role in the creation of a global culture. ... Everyone will view what they see in the media in the context of their social class, gender, religious beliefs and various other dynamic factors. ...

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The millennium girl development is targeted to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2014, and in all levels of education, by 2015. ... The Geographical location plays a dominant role in why third world countries are third world. ...

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