There is only one group of women who suffer from heart attacks. These women have "low-paying clerical jobs with many demands on them and little control over their working place, who also have several children and little or no support at home" (Barnett, and Rivers, The Myth 185). ... This fact gives a feeling of safeness for women. ... Women are more capable of handling stress. ... Patriarchal society is trying to protect women from hard labor and does not imagine that while doing so it actually harms and insults the women. ...

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The Oppian Law "limited the amount of gold women could possess and required that all funds of wards, single women, and widows be deposited with the state". ... Besides weaving, which was viewed by their society as an "expression of ideal virtue in a woman", women did little or no work in the home (The Roman Family). Compared to women in other nations of the classical world, the women of Rome "had comparative stature, independence and a value recognized by their society" (Cross). ... Little is known about these women besides the fact that they "ran shops, were nurses, laborers, domestic weav...

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The student said "Women nowadays are so Americanised, it's a shame." ... Coming from a different culture and perspective than the American culture and being able to live in America as a women, helped me view the major difference in the roles of women. ... Women's lifestyles started off at the same peak as the women in Eritrea, which are unaccredited housewives. ... Within the movements, they suffered a lot of pain and punishment which included physical attacks, incarcerations and their little bit of rights taken away at home. ... It's definitely a culture shock for these...

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The role of women in Afghanistan in A Thousand Splendid Suns: Khaled Hosseini Women throughout the years have been dominated by men and struggled to make an impact in their very own lives. In fact only during the women's suffrage were women only acknowledged their rights as people. ... The book is about the evolving relationship between both women and reveals that both of them are little better than animals. ... It makes the atrocities faced by women in the afghan society more human and how women's very existence is undermined. ... In Afghanistan therefore, in addition to a focus o...

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Anglo-Saxon women's daily activities depended greatly on her status. Traditionally, women in this period were cloth-makers and embroiderers. ... Well-born women were very powerful. ... This is generally white, indicating linen, although poorer woman may have had little choice but to wear wool next to the skin. ... Married women, widowed women and disreputables(dancing women) were excluded from being saints because it was assumed that they had lost their virginity. ...

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We were never bound to the traditional beliefs of men and women and the gender roles. ... I always got my clothes handed down to me from my sisters who got their clothes from a little place called the Christian Outreach. ... Some people believe that women should have equal access with men to all jobs, while others believe that while women are superior to men in a few aspects, in most aspects men are superior to women. ...

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I totally forgot what I was doing and that score was amazing, I couldn't believe, then I start packing my stuff, all the time that I was packing I thought about my parents because they were acting a little bit different than usual, I mean they were nervous and that creeped me out. ... My body was so tired and wanted to sleep, but it was a little bit impossible because we had to go to the U.S. ... The women that she was led to us said we have some issues with the documents that given to them by my parents, for a second my parents seemed like shocked, although we really didn't have any...

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Most little girls want to be teachers whilst the boys eager to be astronauts. When they want to be something a little bit unusual for their gender, parents usually doubt and ask them why. ... They believe that pink is a little too feminine for their son and dolls can make him looks like a sissy. ... Once the girls do a little mischievous thing, the parents will scold them and make them promise not to do the same thing again. ... Society expects different roles for men and women; they believe that men are more virtuous than women. ...

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Heaven forbid that little Joey looks like a girl or baby Michelle is mistaken for a boy. ... When women first united for the right to vote at the beginning of this century, they were opposed by women's groups who wanted things to remain as they were. ... The role for women has expanded with more women in the workplace and with a variety of family structures with new roles for all members of the family. ... ROLES OF MEN AND WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE Women still feel threatened when it comes to the workplace. The danger women feel has been fed throughout history by the practice of keeping wom...

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All was well until about the age of five, her mother married and there was now a stepfather; not your typical nice guy who loved the kids, or maybe he did love them just a little to much. ... "But in those early years, 1959-63, there were no women's shelters, no rape crisis centers. ... For a day, a week, a month, then a year, I made myself wait a little while to burn my stories. ... Those women changed my life. ... Dorothy Allison started publishing her work in 1983 with a book of poems called The Women Who Hate Me. ...

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One hundred years ago only few women worked outside the home, however presently 75% ( Manchester,pg 2) of women do so. ... It was not until the 1940's till American women became vocal and concerned about their rights, their women's rights. ... Women's voices only became heard as women became more vocal. ... Women can seek out their own education. ... With very little guidance and direction , children turn to other outlets to comfort there insecurities and troubles such as drugs and sex. ...

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Beloved The setting, time, and main characters of the film Beloved all point to struggling aspects of African Americans and African American women in particular. ... It was because of women like her that African Americans have more control over their own freedom today. ... In Beloved, African Americans were basically understanding their freedom and struggling to make due with what little they did have. ... These people before hand, especially Sethe, dealt with prejudice, but that was just a little aspect of it. ... Beloved is a child who suffers a little mental-retardation from la...

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Even though all these little things help, they do not help to the point to help a woman out of poverty or fall into poverty. In the book, Women, Work, & Divorce, written by Richard Peterson, Peterson talks about how women are affected in the work force due to divorce. ... The decline is especially severe for women who have children, women who were married to upper middle-class men, and long-married women. ... This quote summarizes how women most of the time become poor. ... Since women merely get the same amount of money as men, even if they have the same job, women tend to have to work more...

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This is endorsed with the ghost being wicked and upsetting the family and no surprise the women's response it's to scream in hysterics this is symbolic as Victorian women could not control their emotions because they had a womb. This shows the problems of Victorian families and is attacking the roles of men and women. ... It was evident that like in the Patriarchal life that children and women were deemed to be seen and not heard thus letting women and children know their place. There is one part of the short story were Calvin is caught talking to one women about literature. The wom...

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This disapproval by , what seemed like everyone around her, left her questioning herself and gave her little hope and faith for the future. She wrote very little up to her time of death in 1906. . ... She befriends two women that live in the town; Mademoiselle Reisz, a pianist, and Madame Ratignolle, a friendly, women who cares greatly for her children. ... The question is, is Edna a strong enough women to pursue her sinful dream? ... It did damper her spirits in which she felt that she was not a good writer anymore and wrote very little up until the time of her death. ...

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So the boys' adjustment gets a little better. ... The oldest son just continued to go with the flow as him and his excited little brother moved to Texas to begin a new life, away from dad. ​... (Amy Desai, 2006) Kathleen Corcoran discusses effects on men and women after a divorce. ... Men are usually confronted with greater emotional adjustment problems than women. ... Men remarry more quickly than women. ...

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At a young age, she was against the idea of it being a man's world women were just there to please them and do as they say. ... Before her process of rebirth, Edna imagined pretty-little pictures to go along with the music she heard, now she does not see merely pictures anymore, the music makes her feel new emotions and become even more in touch with herself. ... This shows the way Victorian women were supposed to use art and behave. ... In a sense Edna and Victorian women in general are like a caged bird, their movements are all restricted the birds' by their cage and Victorian...

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Poverty which is intergenerational is characterized by struggling for survival, traits including little room for privacy, alcoholism leading to domestic and sexual violence, stress on the present without giving future a thought, relying on the fate for things and conditions to get better. ... The poor people spend very little money on the education of their children because most of them go to government school which has very less or low fees. [ CITATION Ban07 l 16393 ] The poor also work multiple occupations to earn. ... In a study of two women, Mila and Joy, both of them had husbands who were...

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The Indian Act of 1869, issued by the Parliament of Canada, was influential in the oppression of the Aboriginal Metis women. ... The policy regulated Aboriginal women by revoking their Aboriginal status if they chose to marry a white man. ... Lacking finances and education, Campbell had little to no opportunities to sustain herself, little alone her child. ... In Melissa's Farley's article, "Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women, "she notes that "for women, prostitution is intimately associated with poverty.... Therefore, Campb...

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Men and women are now sharing roles that were once consigned to one sex or the other. The old ideas have been hard to overcome, but as women have sought equal rights in regards to employment and social circumstances the shift has gotten a little easier, and both men and women are shedding their old roles. ... In addition, women today have a choice between being full-time homemakers and full-time professionals. ... If they end the relationship as friends or cooperative colleagues, they increase the ability for the children to cope with the divorce a little easier. ... Trophy wives are defined a...

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It was also socially acceptable for married men to engage in infidelity, whereas the complete opposite was true for women. In traditional standards, women were treated as second-class citizens in traditional East Indian society, which was very patriarchal. ... For those men and women who still wish to keep a part of tradition, there is still the custom of matchmaking, where they are introduced to prospective partners either by family members or through a company which provides such services, but both men and women are still free to either accept or reject the person introduced. In the past...

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It was also socially acceptable for married men to engage in infidelity, whereas the complete opposite was true for women. In traditional standards, women were treated as second-class citizens in traditional East Indian society, which was very patriarchal. ... For those men and women who still wish to keep a part of tradition, there is still the custom of matchmaking, where they are introduced to prospective partners either by family members or through a company which provides such services, but both men and women are still free to either accept or reject the person introduced. In the past...

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Fruits and vegetables are always better snacks then Little Debbie's and even better than the so called 'no fat' snacks such as Snack Wells brand snacks, not to mention that they cost at least one half the price. ... In the past it was always seen that men should be better at sports then women. Women were all suppose to look and be fit, but not have any athletic talent. ... I thought that the women's game was so much slower than the men game and that women could not possibly compete with the men's game. Even though I did see differences in both women's and men'...

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I believe in perfecting recipes and taking time to get to know the little secrets found in someone else's imperfection. ... Like the wonder women she was, there she went racing inside as we pleaded with her to stay, to cook family dinner. ... He would tell us, "Tough noodles deserve a little ice cream in the belly to soften them up." Summer nights were tolerable for those tough noodles, although when winter came it got a little tough to swallow them down with no hope for a secret ice cream trip. ... Once a month on the second Sunday, my grandmother and I take over the kitchen and prepar...

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The sets look like watercolor paintings, hazy, misty little detail and a washed out look. ... Mise-en-scene The setting and environment of The Joy Luck Club are some of the most critical aspects of the film; a little less the half of the film takes place in 1920-1940's China. ... Given the careers these women have the houses aren't so out of the ordinary, but completely lack a feeling of home, while the house the party takes place in feels warm and homey, despite the fact that the matriarch of the house has recently died. ... The Joy Luck Club is aimed at women. To make a story int...

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