Throughout many decades women have been struggling to be equal to men, both at home and in the work place. ... Others believe that women are better off taking the traditional gender role and staying home to take care of the family and household chores. ... Before 1981, women held no place on the U.S. ... Women in Muslim societies are supposed to stay at home, without an education, cover their faces in public, and stay segregated from men altogether. ... But this "glass ceiling" that has held women back for so long is slowly getting broken. ...

• Word Count: 1851
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Extended business trips, in which the employee is away from home for two to six months; 2. Commuter expatriate assignments, whereby the employee returns home on a regular basis; and 3. ... Employers today are trying to limit their financial costs related to home-- country residences. ... Once the family has finally settled their home-- country concerns, they wonder about visits back home. When necessary, employers try to take advantage of the expatriate's presence back home to combine business with pleasure, particularly if the home city is near headquarters. ...

• Word Count: 2175
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Colored families faced an unemployment rate that was much higher than whites, which caused many to be forced into poverty stricken homes and to settle in small towns where there were less whites and hopefully more jobs. ... Deprivation didn't stop there, as in Baltimore the colored folk were not allowed to live near white people, "No black person could occupy a home on a block where more than half the people were white;" (The Editorial Board). ... Through tax deductions and home loans, moving to a home in the suburbs was more advantageous than living in the crowded apartments in...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Jacobs, ix) It is obvious that the master held the control and authority in his palm when it dealt with the slaves on his plantation. ... Deborah Gray White felt that the status of women in slave homes was more important than those of their counterparts: men. ...

• Word Count: 1416
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Advances in economic wellbeing and growths in literacy rate are not the sole measures of social progress. While it can be argued that colonialism benefited Africans with respect to these dimensions of welfare, it can also be argued that colonialism impaired the overall quality of life in Africa. In ...

• Word Count: 1640
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

FGM, or Female Genital Mutilation, has been practiced worldwide for several thousand years in more than thirty countries throughout the world. While it is mostly practiced in muslim countries, some may be surprised that it's not isolated to such areas; rather, it has been reported in lower Africa a...

• Word Count: 1782
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After the disintegration of the ancien regime in Western Europe and the advent of democracy citizens of nations such as Belgium had more influence in state affairs. The power of government in Belgium was considered more important than the power of the monarchy. It was because of this tha...

• Word Count: 2347
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Women held fairs and benefit concerts to raise money for the cause. ... Then later on the second Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 was passed and it made things even worse, for now respected black citizens- craftsman, publishers, business owners- could be taken from their homes and sent in chains back to the cotton fields, and their friends could nothing but help them. ...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School