Picture this, a man's wife decides to go out, act a fool, abandon her home and belittle her husband, she would be prosecuted by him. ... During the Han Dynasty the same expectations were held and if he was short of anger he has the right to beat his wife. ... " Therefore men held a powerful role over women with the obligations for women to obey and abide by ancient customs. ... Lessons for women practiced ancient customs in which a woman's primary duty is to be industrious and worship in the home. ... " While on the other hand during the Mesopotamian era women were privile...

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Starting with women's suffrage and the women's party in 1920, the major change in their family and home life, the change in their job and educational opportunities, and last but not least their change in clothing and dress. ... Family and home life for women in the 1920's changed with the inventions of electrical appliances. ... Eleven percent of women ages eighteen to twenty-one were in college, and forty percent of the women who held jobs held white collar jobs. ... They also had a much easier home life with the newly invented electrical appliances. ...

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Yet, Miss Emily held her head high with dignity. Although everyone was saying "poor Emily," she still had her strong will and held an intimidating personna. ... But it was not a surprise to them when Homer left as the streets had already been finished. ... That was the last the townspeople saw of Homer Barron, and of Miss Emily for some time. ... Homer was lying in the bed, his body was "lain in an attitude of embrace". ...

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If lucky, they would learn at home from their brothers' tutors. ... Well-off families taught their daughters at home. Even wealthier girls were taught at home by tutors hired for their brothers. ... Males always held the jobs of lawyers, doctors, and teachers. ... They were unable to hold high paying jobs, let alone high pay in any job they held. ...

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Women had no place in working outside of the home. ... I could not imagine having to stay at home tending to the every needs of my husband. ... It is her work in the household, in the home, her work in bearing and rearing the children which should be normally the woman's special work" (Beck 1). ... She may have married to escape living at home with her parents, while Brently would have someone that would be there at his beckoning call. ... Free of the bonds that held her to a life of destitute her dream of being free came not in life but in death....

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Women have be programmed to feel comfortable in the role of nurturer; however, there have been many women throughout history who have broken the societal mode and persevered against the conception that woman can't efficiently and productively function outside of the home. ... While the men were overseas fighting the enemy during WWI, the U.S government compelled homemakers to enter the labor force and perform jobs that men traditionally held. Six million women entered the labor force and proved to be skilled competent workers, but as the war ended the men were given back their jobs and...

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Men have always been seen as the strong, dominant, intelligent half and are obviously best qualified for skilled labor and other forms of paid work out side of the home. Women have been seen as the baby-makers, as less able to hone skills and generally as the less intelligent sex and therefore should stay in the home and care for the domestic work of the family. These stereotypes make it clear why the highest paid and highest power positions are held by men while women are better suited at less intellectually and physically demanding jobs, translating into less money and status. ... "When t...

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With the infamous potato famine wreaking havoc back home, the United States, having far better economic opportunities than Ireland, became home to the largest independent female migration in American history. ... In addition to factory jobs, Irish women also worked in mills and took up domestic work in American citizens' private homes. ... Although not all followed this way of living, some Irish immigrant families adopted a more traditional American behavior in their homes (if they could afford to do so), dividing the men and women into gender role stereotypes; the male was the primary pr...

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She attempts to instruct women in how to protect themselves from the pressures of the world outside the traditional home and services and yet also stay true to God. ... She also declares that Eve should not be held more liable than Adam, based simply on the facts that should women, or Eve specifically, is the reason for the fall, and then logically speaking, men, or Pontius Pilot, should be held responsible for the crucifixion of Christ. ... Lanyer uses logic to try and dispute the history of women's positions, she demonstrates that men have no true reason to devalue women, and that in re...

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Wrights home for evidence. ... They imagine how she must have felt living a life in a home that ".. never seemed a very cheerful place" "..it's a lonesome place and always was, ..not having children makes less work - but it makes a quiet house." ... Peters says, "When I was a girl - my kitten -there was a boy took a hatchet, and before my eyes, ..If they hadn't held me back I would have hurt him." ...

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Fanny did what every fine upstanding politician would do, She Bribed them; with food that is. " How would you like a real home cooked meal? ... This girl would feel write at home on Saturday Night Live. ... The things that got her fame were the things that held her back at the same time. ...

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In the last half of the nineteenth century, Victorian ideals still held sway in American society, at least among members of the middle and upper classes. ... The true woman's place was her home, devoting their lives to creating a nurturing home environment. ...

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Traditionally, the man must take care of the woman both financially and emotionally while the woman's role remains at home. ... Intentionally, Jane's intellectual prowess remains held back. ...

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The book, on the other hand, was pointing out and questioning these stereotypes and assumptions I held. ... Since time immemorial, women have been staying home to nurture the child while men go out and are responsible for putting bread on the table. ...

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Imagine a working woman going through all this while performing at her highest efficiency possible to provide for her family in addition to being a home maker. ... In addition, with their exceptional dedication and militancy in New York City and Lawrence, women helped transform the image of the working woman.6 They no longer held a sense of dependency on anyone other than themselves and became appreciated for their willingness to fight for their causes. ...

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Advertising in the 1920's depicted women in the household and held them hostage there under the pretense that a " woman's work is never done." ... Over the last twenty-five years, it has become increasingly more embarrassing to be a stay-at- home mother. ... In today's society, advertising is showing little girls contradictory messages, to be the "sex pot" but to still stay at home and spend money but not too much money, basically to be every mans perfect woman. ... The domestication and sexualization in the future for women is to be at the home. ... Then to come home to cle...

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It was a simple way of life for men in that they would basically work and then return home to a home that was cleaned, dinner was ready, the kids were in bed and his clothes for the next day laundered and laid out for him. ... Over time woman have changed many things however they are still paid less, they are still expected to be a housemaid, chef and mother at home all the while having to work a career and try to make it to the top. ... As a war, the woman who are being held down by the still male dominated world and it's oppressive ways, are literally fighting back. ... On the flip s...

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As stated in Silverblatt's article, "Alvis Dunns's stunning history of how a Maya village, led by a group of seventy-three women, laid siege to the community church and held government and religious authorities hostage points to another gendered lesson in the making of community boundaries" (640). ... Homes functioned as workplaces, as well as workplaces functioned as nurseries and so forth. ... The lack of being officially politically involved in their cities and under male-dominated rulings, led to women protesting in their own ways, such as the women of Ixil-Maya who hel...

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Mallard could not help but whisper, "Free, free, free." " She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. ... The social context of "The Story of an Hour" which held Mrs. ... She is not bound by rules of a society which keeps her at home and walking three steps behind her husband. ...

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Women have always been expected to fulfill the role of homemaker and does not do work outside of the home, while the men have been imposed with the role of the breadwinner or the creator. ... Continuing in today's society, it was all right for a woman to venture out into the world outside of the home, but the expectation of "dinner needing to be on the table" was still upheld. ... Nevertheless, some kind of genius must have existed among women, although it never translated to paper due to the place women held in society. ... Due to this mentality, millions of women feel the ...

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On the other hand, assumes the power to feel, nurture, serve and manage domestic and interpersonal life of the home. ... The deprecatory phrase "I"m just a housewife" typifies the low esteem in which this position is held in our society. ... Similarly, the ability to care for themselves and their homes has not been developed in most men, in such tasks, which they none the less regard as necessary for their own well being are disdained as "woman's work" - the chores of the inferior sex. ... They are not interested in vital interpersonal communication when they return home after a day&#x...

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These people are more often than not those who come from wealth and prosperity, who are never held accountable for their own money and actions. ... There's always something unpleasant, about a home built on credit and borrowed money." ... At home, Daddy used to tell me when he thought, then I thought the same. ... I have been your doll wife, just as at home I was Daddy's doll child. ...

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King Arthur had a knight who, when riding home one day found a maiden walking along and robbed her of her virtue. This crime usually held the penalty of death, but the queen intervened and begged the king to spare the knight. ...

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"I want a wife who will keep my house clean. A wife who will pick up after my children, a wife who will pick up after me" (419). Many women have heard this before, but nowadays, they are taking a step away from the common role of a "house wife". In today's modern society women have achieved so much;...

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The book continues to say that "the most important duties of women were to bear children and maintain wholesome homes for their families." ... The life of every living thing was precious to the people of that time (women were careful not to step on any bugs etc.) and women held their nostrils to perform breath control and to prevent their hands from touching their "nether portions while their minds where on god." ...

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