Also with the time budget studies it shows that women's position in the household has enhanced and that the amount of housework done by men has multiplied over time, especially with those people who are married to full-time employed women. ... Time budget studies also show that married women who have full-time employment do more hours of work which would include housework. ... Also their 14 year old daughter does the washing up; an example of how helpful children can get in exchanged-role households. ... He says he believes it's a man's place to work and that married women shoul...

• Word Count: 2707
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The Government was keen to get as many females in to the workforce as possible, and therefore their propaganda gave somewhat a false picture, as sex segregation was going to continue in the post war years. ... Another viewpoint of the impact of the second world war on the status of women is that there was an increased welcoming to married women in the workplace. The census of 1931 indicated that only 10% of married women were wage earners, in 1951 that figure had risen to 21.74%. ... On the other hand, trends in married women in employment had increased greatly in the ten years before the war,...

• Word Count: 2750
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Divorce is a very highly rated problem among married couples in the United States. " Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce and sixty-seven percent of all second marriages end in divorce" (Corcoran). ... Divorced parents are more likely to engage in ineffective parenting practices than are parents who are married (Marriage and The Family, 1021). ... The child may begin to be disruptive and cause problems like fighting, vandalism, and other difficult behaviors that may just be used to get attention from a non-responsive parent. ... In my own experience as a child of divorce, I was able to de...

• Word Count: 2872
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• Grade Level: High School

Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities woul...

• Word Count: 3387
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He argued that these "idiotic young women were using white feathers to get rid of boyfriends of whom they were tired". ... It would seem to show a mother and her young daughter who is probably not that long married, both have sacrificed love the mother her husband, and the daughter her father and husband also. ... But never far from the minds was the traditional role of a woman as a wife and mother, and post war the traditional roles were assumed, although women over thirty did get the vote in 1918 as a reward for their efforts during the war. ...

• Word Count: 2585
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th ce...

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According to Rob, the best song ever recorded is "Let's Get it On" by Marvin Gaye (Hornby 237). ... I"m asking you baby to get it on with me. ... Let's get it on! ... Though technically they weren't married, Rob expected Laura to serve the function of a stereotypical wife. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As married couples sought out a life independent of kinship by moving to centers of community where employment allowed them to make a better life for themselves the good provider emerged as a predominately male role. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This obviously would come in handy for the newly married woman who knows nobody when she arrives to the village, sometimes that also includes her husband, it is an action she can contribute the everydayness of life within the household. ...

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"Black as my soul." (158) was Lang's response to the interviewer's question when the interviewer Power asked him in 1973, "How do you take your coffee?" (158). This response is characteristic of the dark underlying tone that is prevalent in many Lang's films. According to Professor Polan, many Lang's films share a recurring theme - destiny, a destiny which is typically random and uncaring. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

No clear dominant gender.) 10)Club Kid -- (Outrageous party costume, often with mixed genders.) 11)Fetish Dresser -- (Gets sexual pleasure from wearing certain clothing.) 12)Butch -- (Woman with some masculine characteristics.) 13)Diesel Dyke -- (Very butch lesbian, looks at home behind wheel of truck.) 14)Bulldagger -- (Extreme butch, sexual "top") 15)Drag King -- (Performs caricatures on stage. ... Number two - a "woman" - who wears cosmetics and wants to get married, start a family and be a housewife. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Coming from a political family, Murphy's first political position took place in 1910, when she persuaded the Alberta legislature to pass the Married Women's Relief Act; this authorized the court to provide a widow with something from her departed husbands estate if he had not done so in his will (Dranoff 49). ...

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Once upon a time there was a magical world, where everything was perfect and everybody was happy and it was known as the land of Fairytales. Is this a realistic view of the world? This is the view Fairytales give the reader and it is evident that childhood tales help to shape the listener or reader. There are very clear moral codes embedded into Fairytale scenarios. Children's perceptions of Fairytales can go a long way towards shaping their social interactions; you can't deny that the things they hear and read influence their views, visions of the future and reality. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

But to have any hope, certainty or believe we should firstly investigate the current situation that can give us a full picture of what chances we- females do have and do not and then what of them we are expected to get. ...

• Word Count: 5989
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate