You began to see a host of June Cleavers, and Harriet Nelsons on television parading happily around their spotless homes. ... In many cases depression sets in, causing the victims problems at home, and in the workplace. ... This sometimes leads to bad job performance, acting out at work, and the carrying over into the home. Spouses are often victims themselves, since it is unprofessional as well as unacceptable to display anger and violence in the workplace they may do it in the home. ... Shattering the glass ceiling is a process in which women and minorities are attempting to break throug...

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It was essential that the wife create a home, care for the children and generally run the household... The work of the upper and middle class woman was limited to the home and family. ... As far as other as other occupations go, upper class women are said to have held office. ... The title most frequently held by women was "mistress of the house." ... Becoming a widow held similar stipulations. ...

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A woman who did not wish to marry could find work outside the home as a missionary, ironically though, many religious orders required women missionaries to be married. ... Economically the urban and rural areas held the same disadvantage for women because women were not considered citizens and therefore could not own land. ... In other words, the 10 hour work day further segregated men and women and those employers that wanted to hire women were now held to a stricter set of rules, consequently even less women were employable. ... Women were excluded from higher education and became more and...

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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. ...

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The seventies marked the beginning of the Woman's Movement and the end of the ideals we held on what it is to be a "man" and what it is to be a "woman." ... Industry has been taken out of the home, and large families are no longer economically possible or socially desired. ... The roles of men and women in the home are becoming more co-operative than in the past decades. ... Today, it is not uncommon for a man to come home and fold a load of laundry while his wife is cooking dinner. In successful homes, the roles of all family members are changing, the roles of mom, dad, and the children....

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But as she worked to make her family established, she became a more independent woman herself, by breaking some of the Confucian ideals she held so dearly. ... "It was no light thing for a woman to go out of her home "3. ... Ning had stated that she was the first woman to "come out " in her family and no longer live in her home. ... She gave up work to care for her daughter and stay close to home; she could leave her workplace and go home at night exercising her newfound freedom that many women did not experience in imperial China. ... Ning had freedom to leave and be mobile after she had aba...

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She believes that women's roles have changed in the home and the workplace. ... Before 1970 women's place was in the home and they did not have the same opportunities as men to commit crimes. It appears that over the past two decades women have had to assume male roles in the home and workplace. ... The justice system today is still not realizing that women need to be held accountable for their actions. An unknown criminal defense lawyer said, "If she hasn't committed murder and she has children at home she walks." ...

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However, in early Christian culture women are held in higher regard than the previous two cultures mainly because of Jesus and Paul. ... Romans placed a very high value on marriage, home and the family and this made quite a difference to society's treatment of women. ... Roman society's expectation of women is described in this letter by Seneca in 41 A.D.: You - unlike so many - never succumbed to immorality, the worst evil of the century; jewels and pearls did not bend you; you never thought wealthy was the greatest gift to the human race; the bad example of lesser women did not ...

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A women position in the family has typically (in the past) been at home. ... This change made a need for factory workers .Women started to join the workforce out side of home. ... They may have a family and not be forced or required to be a stay at home mother . ... I feel the values held by citizens of the United States have gone through negative changes. ... Children are not created out of wedlock and are raised in a torn household or a broken home. ...

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Even kindergarten students are sent home for clothing that is deemed "too revealing" and "distracting to other students.... Similarly, if a young man wears only a "wife beater," a sleeveless undershirt, he does not get sent home or forced to put on a different shirt. ... In her blog post on the Billings Gazette, she explained that on her first day of junior year, a teacher "loudly announced that [she] was going to have to go home because [her] clothing was inappropriate.... In an essay contest held by the LA Times newspaper, students were asked to discuss their f...

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Lego is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based out of Denmark. ... Reminding you of your childhood home. When the leaves start to fall your home also starts to change. That is why this series offers a home that just says fall. Let your child take apart that summer home and make some changes. ...

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Men today are held to a certain standard of appearance and skills that acknowledge if they meet the requirements of being a man in today's society. ... Even though these wrestling matches presents itself as unnecessary violence, there is a deeper meaning behind it, suggesting that this is how men act in their own arena at home and at work. ... These cage matches, represents everyday life in the work place, and even at home. ... The cage matches are very symbolic by expressing the ideas of how men should act within their work, home, and towards women. ... The wrestling matches exemplifie...

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Her place was in the home, on a veritable pedestal if one could be afforded, and emphatically not in the world of affairs " (Altick 54). ... David Copperfield and Jane Eyre had very similar childhoods, Jane was orphaned David lost his father, Jane lived in an abusive home, David lived in an abusive home, Jane was sent off to a boarding school and so was David. ... There would have been more education in the running of a home from Clara. Also, chances are David would have stayed at home or attended a school nearby to receive all the education a girl needs. ... Reed constant put down of the poor...

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Since the early 1900's women have been fighting against the suppression of gender inequality, whether at home or in the workplace. ... In a nut shell, social functionalist think that women will be best off carrying out traditional gender roles, which includes staying at home to take care of the family and housework. ... For 19 years, she worked at the Goodyear Tire plant in Gadsden, Ala., one of a handful of women among the roughly 80 people who held the same supervisory position she did. ...

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In Athens, women were thought of as modern day "housewives", their place in the home. ... Women were thought of as property and when they would leave their home, had to be escorted. ... They were held in very little regard or value in their society. ...

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As a result of this, many women quit their jobs, unhappy with the circumstances, and were forced to be stay at home mothers. ​... Consciousness-raising groups were regularly held by the activists. ... In the early 1970's new changes were starting to take place in the classroom, the home, and at work as well. ...

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At the beginning of the film there is a scene which depicts Mr Olsen (the shoemaker) coming home with a new car for his family. ... The women in The Blot are nearly all depicted within the home setting. ... The main action in the film is orientated around Mrs Grigg's everyday routine, cleaning, cooking and shopping for the home. ... If Mrs Griggs was to break out of the home and go to work her and her family might not have to suffer so, however the patriarchal insistence to have women in the home and not in a professional space does not permit it. ... (Kaplan 137) However it is in...

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As a result, women stayed home to clean and take care of the children. ... According to Kennedy, Nagata, Mushenski, and Johnson (2008) jobs held by white men are often ranked higher in prestige than those held by women or blacks. ...

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But there is the absence of Minnie from her home, the setting of the story. ... It was in their hands that held the fate of Minnie. ... It was this very patch that covered the box that held Minnie's bird. ...

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It is an evaluation of my living status and social norms in the imperial times in China including the norms that the society held upon regarding men and women's statuses compared. ... I grew up in a fisherman's home in rural area outside of Beijing, which was the ruling capital, knowing and experiencing that men and women were not treated equal. ... However, as the wife that was married earliest among others, I held a rather higher status compare to others. ...

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As the men of China immigrate to America looking for work to send money home to their families, the women are expected to uphold the home front. ... Before the villagers went to ransack the aunt's home Kingston writes, "The frightened villagers, who depended on one another to maintain the real, went to my aunt to show her a personal physical representation of the break she had made in the "roundness"" (Kingston 12-3). ... It is held within ideology, but also manages to distance itself from it, to the point where it permits us to "feel" and "perceive" the ideology from which it springs...

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Daldry returns to the Givings' home in a flustered state as if sexually aroused, which Dr. ... " Finally, Leo walks Elizabeth home and confesses his affections to her, which upsets Elizabeth's husband, and he insists she terminate her employment with the Givings (Ruhl). ... The walks, coupled with the precipitation in the gardens, continually suggest erotic transgressions, a complete departure from the stuffy atmosphere of the Givings' home. When the action of the play is transferred completely from the home to the garden, we also see the implications of the snow. ... We fi...

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He discusses the sufferance of the army, the betrayal of the government and the "callous complacence" of those at home. ... During his stay at the hospital, Sassoon develops a very close relationship with rivers due to the numerous therapeutic sessions that were held. ... "A memory tweaked the edges of his mind The day his father left home. ...

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Why does this happen in the land of the free, this place we call home, this America? ... In addition to being the modern workingwomen of the 90s, women are still held to the standards of the 1960s housewives. ... Women who stay home and take care of their kids are considered "soccer moms" and are not looked down on by society but are considered somewhat lazy for not contributing much to our economy. ...

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I held onto my ground for some time but gave way to my boyish tendencies, at least once I reached high school. ... Not only are men taught to be strong, and to avoid emotionality, they are also foreseen as natural bread winners and expected to take care of house and home. ... Jenner, whose popularity spans two generations, the first generation knowing him as the American hero whom took the gold home in the 1976 summer Olympics and the other generation knowing him as this father like figure on Keeping up With The Kardashians, is now transitioning to be a woman. ...

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