Even then the statistics are amongst white women. Black women living in the south had no access to education. ... The legal rights of women were almost non-existent, black women had little to no custody rights whether to themselves or the lives of their children. ... When looking at the achievements of women in the early republic is it also important to understand that we are examining the achievements of wealthy white women and how the progression of these women left a residual effect that would ultimately trickle down to women of the middle and poor class and eventually to women of color. ...

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The Rising Tide of Women's Leadership Within the past few years, America has seen an increase in women's leadership positions. ... The public embraces the idea of women leading the country. ... Women are still underrepresented in political office, only eight governors and fourteen senators, which is a little increase from 1999 when there was only three governors and nine U.S. senators (Equal Representation in Government and Democracy, 2004). ... The country's attitudes have shifted toward women in public office. ... Even though the growth of women in leadership roles has bee...

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The Oppression and Progress of Women I agree with Adrienne Rich that every women needs to educate herself in what she needs to know to know for survival in the world. ... And that was the only place for women in the world. ... Women and men alike are waiting longer than ever to marry, and I feel this is great progress for women. ... There are many places around the world where women still have little or no value or rights. ... We need to teach our young girls to be strong, self-defining women. ...

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Anthony in the women's rights movement and formed the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869 and was the first president of the association until 1890. ... The Declaration of Sentiments was organized to uphold the rights of women to be equal to those of men. ... Women were paid little for the jobs that were available to them. ... Abolition up until the civil war led to the start of women's rights movement. Within the women's rights movement was the women's suffrage movement. ...

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Though at the time when this book took place the Women's Liberation movement was in full swing though this movement did not have an important effect on Lakota culture because it just did not apply as Mary Crow Dog explained, "women's lib was mainly a white, upper middle-class affair of little use to a reservation woman." ... Now they say to our women; Lets you and me make a little warrior, after which they got lost making little warriors some where else." ... In the Lakota's ancient tales the women came first, as opposed to the Bible's women being made out of the man...

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Women's are willing to suffer, in order for them to have the same rights as the men. ... While other women finding ways to be heard, African-Americans women are forced but no choice to be the housemaids. ... The right to vote made a huge impact in women history. Women showed America what they were made of; by fighting for themselves. ... The little children in the families, they had no choice but to work, then be educated for their family to survive. ...

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Married women had no resources for leisure. ... The women received no spending money. Of the rare times that the whole family decided to do something together it usually didn't cost little to nothing. ... Socializing in the street was the easiest form of leisure because it was free and there was little supervision. ... Young women had more opportunities to work in stores, offices and factories. ...

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With restrictions on where Black men and women could work in the South, there were virtually no jobs but the previous slave duties they had. ... Just being who she was, broke the stereotypical role African Americans and women were portrayed in society at that time. ... She challenged racial hierarchy, by inquiring the ideal that white women were moral and chaste and black women weren't she sited instances where the sex between white women and black men were consensual and where white men had raped black women for years. She touched on subjects that no one dared to and did it just as go...

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Thus, in many TV shows such as housewives, keeping up with Kardashian, Cinderella for little girls, and so on, they usually put beautiful women so frequently that makes them believe that with a good body, make up, self-sacrifice, they can look stunning as the famous they look on the shows. ... As a matter of fact, some TV shows make little girls be attempt to act like an adult or having access to recent branded goods of whatever they see, and there is a constant comparison between real lives and what is being portrayed on the TV. ... Business women- Ads show that women can do more than j...

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Women have to struggle in this world because it is male based. ... I guess me being a girl, I am a little biased. ... When women started doing more and more athletic competitions, supposedly "good" scientific studies showed that women would stop menstruating. ... This article helped me figure out a little about why men are the way they are. ... We have basically learned that women are inferior to men. ...

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Women have always been a step behind men because society has not accepted that women are just as capable as men. Knowing this to be a fact, its hard to accept that society can be so insensitive to women. ... The "glass ceiling" refers to the invisible barriers to the promotion of women within a discriminatory firm allowing very little upward mobility. I find it to be ridiculous how women are so limited on their role in the workplace. ... From as far as history can go back, men have always been superior to women. ...

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Affirmative Action was a forceful tactic placed on society to provide equal opportunity for minorities and women. ... It's an little known fact that white males receive some benefits from Affirmative Action; by expanding the criteria, individuals that have been excluded because of nepotism or favoritism now have a chance for growth within an institution as illustrated by the story of former Vice-President J. ... I believe that Affirmative Action, is an absolute necessity because it insures qualified women, African-Americans, and other minorities the prospect of opportunities that may ha...

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In "Too Close to the Bone: The Historical Context for Women's Obsession with Slenderness" the author Roberta Seid talks about how American women are obsessed with maintaining an "ideal" weight. ... Achieving thinness has not always been pursued by women. ... Those eras little resemble ours, however. One question often raised is "why do women suffer from disorders more than men?" ... However, women should rebel against the new "religion". ...

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To take an example from the current world; in countries like Pakistan men are clearly more dominant than women. However, in countries like America men and women are seen as pretty close to equal. ... The males in Pakistan are taught by their elders and see through their experiences that women are inferior to them. ... And I said, "Well, he's actually a boy.The waitress without missing a beat, said, "Tough little guy, huh?"" ... For example, it might be argued that little Timmy is afraid of big dogs because it is a healthy biological response rooted deep in DNA coding. ...

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Rap, a relatively new form of musical exposition, has been criticized for its so-called anti-women lyrics. ... These words, however, do little more than sell records. ... Dre and many other rap artists feel about women. ... Rap music has no real influence on the image America has of women. In this age of enlightenment Benninger 3 toward the images and ideas the media present, the only real image America should have of women is the image that women themselves furnish. ...

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Women hugged their babies and wept. ... Old men and women had in their eyes a look of young people in love. ... Now I see immigrants as determined human beings who helped organize the industrial revolution, instead of poor foreigners who worked long hours for little pay. In conclusion, Hungry Hearts is one of the many stories written to tell of women's never ending struggle to gain a higher place in life. ...

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Another way is how women started to get treated in the late 1960's. ... Women though were not treated fair at all from 1860 to the early 1960's. In the early 1960's women were not treated with at all the same respect as men were treated with in these times. ... Also at these times if women got pregnant it was a huge sin. ... And the 1960's were over white people started to treat the blacks with a little more respect than before. ...

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"Amazingly, this boy had an identical twin brother, which made it possible to compare two genetically identical individuals raised as a boy and a girl... our hero became the perfect little girl, the very picture of adorable femininity.?... To take an example from the current world; in countries like Pakistan, men are clearly more dominant than women. However, in countries like America men and women are seen as pretty close to equal. The men born into the cultures of countries like Pakistan are not born with a different gene than men in America that makes them dominate over women. The males in ...

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The thing that I remember the most is not just the attacks themselves, but also the men and women of New York City's finest risking their lives to protect and even save the lives of so may others. ... If it weren't for the determination of these few men and women from the city that never sleeps, America may have been down a little, or even much, longer than we were. ... The men and women from NYC embedded a sense of faith and courage that enormous events, such as September 11, can bestow upon a person. ... The New York City fire fighters and police officers are men and women of di...

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Eating Disorders It used to be, women were respected for their voluptuous bodies, and they believed that being that way made them beautiful. Women are constantly trying to be the thinner and then the effort becomes extreme and they try to be the "thinnest." ... These ideas are what the girls and women are facing today, they constantly seeing the models on the runway and say to themselves "I want to look like that, I wanna be that thin or thinner." ... Then there are the times when the parents realize what they are doing, they know they criticize too much by continually make little comments t...

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On this blog women make signs saying why they are against feminism. ... In the article 'these women don't know the real meaning of the word 'feminism'" Tery Steelman states " It's obvious that the women who participate in Women Against Feminism, are not very informed about what it actually is. ... Feminism became a big deal to american women in the 1960. ... I do understand a little bit why people view feminism the way they do. ... Believing that women are virtually under siege.(96.) ...

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Germans has little need to go outside their own neighborhoods. 3. ... While the women immigrants were maids or worked in textile. The Irish women took over the workforce displacing native born women. ... The connection between American women championing rights and same time becoming abolitionist is that, the women's right challenged the gender based double standard question that all men and women are equal; arguing that whatever is right for a man to do is also right for a woman. ... Abigail Adams meant that her husband should not forget the women; this was because during that time, wo...

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Men and women go to college to improve their lives dreams. ... Women and men both hold the same responsibilities when it comes to their financial and personal futures. ... Both men and women have the same reasons to go to school. "Today with increasing numbers of women students in nearly every branch of higher learning, we still see very few women in the upper levels of faculty and administrations most institutions." ... The more educated men and women working for the society in a whole, will in turn improve life to come. ...

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Men and women go to college to improve their lives dreams. ... Women and men both hold the same responsibilities when it comes to their financial and personal futures. ... Both men and women have the same reasons to go to school. "Today with increasing numbers of women students in nearly every branch of higher learning, we still see very few women in the upper levels of faculty and administrations most institutions." ... The more educated men and women working for the society in a whole, will in turn improve life to come. ...

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"For the philosophes the concept of predestination suggested that the fate of the human soul after death bore little or no relationship to virtuous living" (734). ... But these poor women were still negatively affected by the Industrial Revolution. Women went to work in textile factories, working long hours under harsh conditions. ... Even today some people believe that women still belong in the home. Today women live with the social consequences of the Industrial Revolution. ...

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