WHAT IMPACT DID THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAVE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN? ... In 1943 an estimated 2,250,000 more women were working. ... The 1940 Extended Employment of Women agreement, gave women in the engineering sector the opportunity to undertake men's tasks. ... Statistics suggest that " 75% of those in engineering were paid under the special women's schedule for employees classed as doing women's work." ... However this was indeed the result of the war, as many women concluded in the survey that a women's place was at home. ...

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Men who batter women have never learned how to cope successfully with angry feelings. ... What is violence against women? ... Men who are verbally encouraged by their friends to abuse women are much more likely to do so. ... It is situations like these where violence against women is used as a coping method for men. ... Marital status measures grouped widows, married and common-law women together. ...

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This was a big change for the women of China. For the most part, women are given equal rights with men. ... However, this doesn't apply to 100% of Chinese women. ... Women could not claim family property. ... So little value was placed on the lives of women that after the death of the husband, his wives and concubines had to kill themselves or volunteer to be killed. ...

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He used his dominance to mistreat the women both physically and mentally. ... Unlike these two, his other women would wait until he came to see them. ... Although he was insensitive to both women, this contradicted how he treated other women. ... Despite the fact that Genji used women he made sure they were taken care of. ... Jealousy did not occur between the women because Tyler claimed that Genji valued character more than looks which meant that he selected those women who had the best character. ...

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However the topic of education expansion by women must be discussed due to the fact that it is higher education that has enabled women to enter the work force. Up until a few decades ago, women were still thought of as the weaker sex and were rarely given the opportunities to work in high positions. But as the average level of education attainment has increased by women, so has their independence. ... Since education provides jobs and independence women tend to not tolerate unhappy marriages (Heaton 2002). ... In the article Women's Employment, Marital Happiness, and Divorce published in ...

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Women are not forced to go along with this but the women who do are "held in the greatest esteem-. ... Some women though do not die with their husbands but instead because of their husbands. Men marry women and then after receiving their dowry money kill them, by burning them. ... These women go into a marriage hoping for a good life only to be killed. ...

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Claude chooses the wrong women in order to help him gain acceptance from his family and Cather does a good job of taking all of the women in Claude's life and placing them into two distinct categories: safe and dangerous women. Claude had several issues with every woman he encounters and ends up discriminating against the women with whom he could have strong relationship and opts for women he feels are "safe" for him. By definition, these safe women tend to be older in age, unattainable and have mother-like qualities. ... This view of women continues on through his life as be becomes attr...

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Women are just as naturally interested in sex, perhaps even more so. Women can be multi- orgasmic and have a much broader range of sexual stimulation than men. ... While polygyny tends to be viewed by Western cultures as an instrument for the domination of women by men, the degree of autonomy experienced by women in polygynous unions varies within and among cultures. ... In addition, women find polygyny helps lighten their work burden. ... Women play a crucial role in this process, since they gather and control other women as wives and companions for brothers, sons, and husbands. ...

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Danger, in this stage, you may become too comfortable and stop doing the little things that make your partner feel special. ... [pg12a] Many women express, or feel fearful of being alone, which commonly is defined as not being in a relationship. ... [pg18b] Far too many women act like beggars instead of choosers in the dating game. ... Unfortunately, women's willingness to overlook troubling traits doesn't stop at sloppiness. ... The reasons we women do this is because we haven't come to believe in ourselves. ...

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Premarital sex is when a women and man have sex before they are married. ... Women are running to abortion clinics because neither they nor their partners took the proper precautions ahead of time. ... They believe that living together is a good way to get to know a woman intimately, since "it's the little things" that can wreck a marriage. ... In the US, nine percent of young women under the age of 20 are becoming pregnant each year. ... (DeLamter, 304) Even though, we see safe sex ads all the time, young women are becoming pregnant. ...

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They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass you life." ...

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In an Elizabethan context, the word "honour" means something very different for men and women. ... This belief in the chain of being is also shown in his attitude towards women. ... Bianca can also be compared to Margaret as, in both plays different levels of honour are attributed to women of different class. ... Women like Hero were easily slandered as, in Elizabethan times, female sexuality was something feared by men. ... Her worth has little to do with her own actions, but those of her father, as a woman's social status was dependent on that of her father or husband. ...

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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. ... "Rebellious women- were a concern for Englishmen during the time that Shakespeare wrote his plays (Detmer, Shakespeare Quarterly, 273). Katherine and women of her type were not considered "proper- and were not very common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ... Women like this were sometimes beaten into submission and domestic violence was very prevalent in their lives. ... Bradbook as " the oldest and indeed the only native comic role for women- in English drama (Wayne, Refashioning the Shrew, 161). ...

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They both are going to be re-christen in order to be able to marry the women they love. ... Algernon calls Lane to bring in Jack's cigarette case and shows the inscription: "'From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack.'" ...

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As Lester and Willie travel throughout Linden Hills in an effort to make a little money, they encounter residents who have compromised themselves in one way or another in order to belong to Linden Hills. ...

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Having done this outside of wedlock caused women to be frowned on by society tremendously. ... Mooney's intentions were to select who her daughter was to marry, caring very little for what the man felt. ...

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There used to be three types of marriage; a) marriage by purchase, also known as marriage by bride price, b) marriage by exchange, and c) slave marriage, which little is known about. ... This implies that women married by exchange could not end their marriages when they wanted. ... He says that the women that he spoke to told him that even though they had been married by exchange of their own volition, and were not forced to return [2]. ... Finally, re-exchange of wife was possible during the negotiations for a marriage, but once marriage is consummated the wife could not be exchanged [4] ...

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There was also and incident where Sula was swinging a young boy by the name of Chicken Little, and accidentally lost grip of his hands which resulted in him flying into the water and drowning. ... She placed Eva in an old folk's home, slept with Jude, and had casual sex with other women husbands as much as she could. ... Growing up, Sula had little guidance. ... Sula begins to sleep with other women's husbands and discarding them after she is done with them. ...

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(Dating in Vietnam 1) Dating in Vietnam is a little more complicated than in most Western countries. ... Women that are raised in the country in Vietnam are a little different than those that are raised in the city. ...

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Prevalent among many of Ernest Hemingway's novels is the concept popularly known as the "Hemingway hero", an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a "man's man". In The Sun Also Rises, four different men are compared and contrasted as they engage in some form of relationship wi...

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Preface Marriage and families founded through marriage constitute the basic cells of the society. It involves a multi-layer relationship between neighbors and other elements in the community, and it is so regarded by the Chinese as the top issue of the morality of human kind. Wedding ceremony is the...

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Not only do the men and women that work for the bride get to work their own hours, but need to be able to have all other aspects to being a good business owner or co-worker. ... Looking at the results males don't like to put their trust into random people to plan their wedding but women would love for the consultant to plan her wedding. ...

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The Road of Priestly Matrimony Imagine a priest driving down a road in his suburban filled with his five children. Riding next to the priest is his wife. He has been married to her since his ordination. This priest performs mass like any ordinary priest, but has special obligations outside of the ...

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(It was a common custom in the 19th and early 20th century for wealthy, unmarried older women to pay young girls to travel with them, as both a servant and a friend with whom to converse. During their travels, the two women come to Monte Carlo, a resort city in the south of France. ...

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A wife is known to act as the church when compared to God's marriage, but she is also referred to as the Little Christ because she still has some power and say-so in the marriage (Reference 12 pg. 61). ...

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