Since 1914, women have made impeccable advancements in political, social, and economic aspects in Canada as seen through involvements in World War 1, gain of gender equality and participation in politics. ... Several years after, with the help of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, women were able to advance more in both the economic and social aspect. ... Pearson launched the Royal Commission on the status of Women in Canada on February 3, 1967. ... All in all, due to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, the lives of many Canadian girls and women and girls have cha...

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Overall, the status of women as Metzger observed, "They had become second-class Jews, excluded from the worship and teaching of God, with status scarcely above that of slaves" (806). ... Whether the role of women is defined by the Hebrew scripture or Roman law, statuses given to women are similar in both societies. The treatment seems to convey that women are socially insignificant. ... The experience of exile strengthened the family as a social and religious unit. ... Although it is better than no appreciation at all, it is comparative to the Christian ideas of the status of women. ...

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In other words, we identify the differences between male and a female based on the behavior each one of these respective statuses constitutes in our social life. ... Moreover, she feels that historically, the social construction of gender has been significantly affected by social patterns. ... Gender "is a social principle organizing social institutions", she states. ... Gender Roles in the Labor Workforce Theoretically, labor should strictly rely on a person's capabilities, not on ascribed status. ... This supports McElhinny point that gender "is a social principle organi...

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Amber Ashpole Social Division of the Pacific Northwest in the Early 20th Century The Pacific Northwest by definition of it geography encouraged a split social environment. ... Therefore, even though the geography of the Pacific Northwest played a large part in creating a social division in the early 20th century, it was the lack of economic, political, and social rights for women that had the most profound affect on the populace. ... As men and the industrial revolution progressed, "woman's political status, while legally unchanged . . . deteriorated relative to the advance of ...

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Compared to the theatrical stage, motion pictures have proven to be a more flexible medium, spawning an industry that due to its reach and accessible nature propagated ideas and spread information without any bias towards social class or status. ... The struggle to control this new medium and to impose Judeo-Christian values upon it culminated with the release of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1930.2 In this essay I shall first describe the social context in the United States in the early days of cinema and the introduction of content censorship. ... The beginning of the twentieth cent...

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In Zehra Arat's chapter entitled Women Under Layers of Oppression: The (Un) Changing Political Economy of Gender, she writes that, "the common denominator of women in all societies, including the industrialized ones, is their subordinate status." ... Addressing the issue that women have perpetually held a significantly lower status than men constitutes only part of the argument according to Arat. ... This implemented programs to raise plans to advance the position and status of all women. ... Similarly, Margaret Leahy, in her book, Development Strategies and the Status of Women, she discu...

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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. ... This is the only way in the Chinese traditional community in which he could have displayed his status in wealth. ... However, as the wife that was married earliest among others, I held a rather higher status compare to others. ... Besides the oppression that I underwent after marriage in line with the social status of my husband as already mentioned I was required to give birth to a son who would be the legi...

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Likert Scales were distributed to college students in order to assess three major categories: personal traits, physical traits, and status traits. ... Conversely, ambition, social status, and internal attributes are known to be more important to women. ... According to this study, women prefer mates more dominant, who are higher in income, education, self-confidence, intelligence, dominance, and social position then themselves (2002). ... Women will prefer an individual who scores high in social status and personality, whereas men would place a greater importance on looks. .....

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Debra Satz believes that economics and a person's status are factors which generate gender inequality, thus driving women into prostitution. ... The second problem that women are faced with is their status: "the second dimension of gender inequality does not concern income and opportunity but status. ... The third factor is marginalization, "People who are marginalized are excluded from, or absent from, core productive social roles in society "roles which convey self-respect and meaningful contribution"" (Pg. 76). ... Women's lower status thus influences the way rape is seen" (Pg. 7...

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Does Antigone accept or reject the social roles attributed to women? ... Women were at the forefront of these social norms, it was believed that they should be well mannered, respectful and obedient to males or any authority without question. ... In a way, she was a rebel to the social norm and the standards of gender specific expectations and actions. ... There was a sense of independence with Antigone, as a women she challenged the status quo. ...

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From a modernist perspective, development would therefore have a positive impact on women's social status overall (Greig et al., 2007). ... Traditionally, a woman at home is seen as a display of a higher socio-economic status (Desai & Andrist, 2010). ... For younger girls, the shift in parent-daughter relations also rejects the foreseen climb in the familial status. ... Parents usually encourage girls' education as it improves their chances on the marriage market and often disagree with their daughter working the night shift, as a woman working in the call center industry is sociall...

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In her constant favouring of Tom, Mrs Tulliver repeatedly asserts Maggie's inferior status. ... Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. ... This image conveys the extent of Maggie's affront to social convention and the rebellious and sinful implications such as desire carries. ... Maggie's social education is seen in all its painful detail. ... Stelling's sexist views of clever women, and her father's collusion with dominant social conventions all educate Maggie into accepting her inferior status as a woman in a patr...

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That of sheer insignificance in the country and in the social circle. ... In her constant favouring of Tom, Mrs Tulliver repeatedly asserts Maggie's inferior status. ... Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. ... Maggie's social education is seen in all its painful detail. ... Stelling's sexist views of clever women, and her father's collusion with dominant social conventions all educate Maggie into accepting her inferior status as a woman in a patriarchal society. ...

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Not only were unrealistic goals forced on people due to their gender but also because of the social class they were born into. ... The books Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens were written in the Victorian era where gender and social limitations were forced upon the protagonists by society; both books use very simple characters to define and defy these limitations set before them, which ultimately created classics. ... Women were thought to be helpless and soft, they were just a woman.Girls were sent to religious schools or finishing schools based on their ...

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Violenta's fall from a reputed paragon of feminine virtue and subsequent turn to violent measures is portrayed as a fatal consequence of a flawed social system rather than, as was the belief of the time, a violence innate to the female body. ... Violenta reiterates the conventional belief of the time: the notion that the value of a woman's life is linked irrevocably to her virginal status, and, that a loss of the latter implied a loss of the former as "modesty is rarely or never to be regained." ... As such, after more than a year of fruitless pursuit, Roderigo decides to marry...

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As a working woman, Jane would be expected to remain unmarried, or leave her job if she did decide to marry, and marry a man of a similar social status to herself, such as a clergyman like St John Rivers. ... The consequences are the downfall of the school and of Brocklehurst himself, as he loses all of his power and status. ... This is true in the case of Jane, although it is necessary for Rochester to become physically disabled (loss of sexual appeal) and lose his property (loss of wealth and status) before she feels necessarily equal or superior to him – reflecting the attitudes of Vi...

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In so doing, we affect not only our lives, but also the lives of others and the social systems in which all of this take place. ... Functionalist theory may be interpreted as an apology for the status quo. ... The Conflict Perspective: From the conflict perspective, the gender inequality is a form of social stratification. ... This fact does not mean, however, that prestige, and wealth than any lower-class person, but the same upper-class woman will have less men and women have equal status. Typically, an upper-class woman will have more power, status 3 (Sociology for the twenty- first centu...

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Women who should have equal status with men, have been degraded and disregarded in numerous ways in the Middle East. ... Due to this repression, voices of women are being unheard and male dominance is prevailing in the name of Islam, which is morally, ethically, religiously and socially incorrect. ... Unfortunately, in the Middle East, various human rights such as property acquisition and voting status are deprived from women making them socially unequal. ... In these countries, women are subjugated under Sharia law and subjected to strict work and social restriction. ... This concept is estab...

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According to Tannen, men are traditionally looking for recognition and social domination; they see the world as a battlefield on which each win allows you to get a higher social status. ... Even as the want to reach higher social status, it is not as important to them and they will move ahead using only honorable ways, without stepping on others (Tannen, 1992). ... "If women speak and hear a language of connection and intimacy, while men speak and hear a language of status and independence, then communication between men and women can be like cross-cultural communication, prey to a clash of co...

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A yearning for a class status that might afford her more breathing room as a Tran gendered person. ... Even as Jess struggles alone to construct a self amid a social milieu dominated by alienation, fragmentation and loneliness, she discovers that resistance to oppression and the refashioning of a resisting self is a losing battle outside a resistance community. ... Yet everywhere, women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty Thus, there needs to be a continued and relentless unified resistance among Tran gende...

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It is the way of telling people about the "state " and the "status " of it owner [Barnes& Eicher 125]. ... Of course one of the primary messages clothes carry is the social message. ... Historically the social message has wildly transformed. ... Nowadays clothing is not an attribute of belonging to a clan, or to a restrained social level though it still can tell a lot about the financial status of a person. ... Historically, women wore traditional dresses, which signified their cultural and social status [Guy& Green 76]. ...

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Gender refers to the psychological, social and cultural differences between males and females; sex therefore is the physiological and anatomical differences between the male and female bodies. ... Thus gender structures every aspect of an individual's life through social relationships and all forms of interaction with the wider society. ... Bristow (1997) argues that social and cultural relations are affected by economic change. ... Arguably this threatens the status quo, and seen as grossly unnatural. ... Thus the status quo is challenged further with the outcry from fathers to equalise ...

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It should also be noted that the way a woman is portrayed in a painting reflects the status and roles of women in society. ... These positive and negative portrayals of women were shown to demonstrate the consequences of their actions depending on whether or not they followed their social roles. ... From a negative angle of representing women, artists would create scenes that showed the deadly consequences of a woman betraying her accepted social role. Some of these scenes showed reversed gender roles, men displaying their superiority, women suffering for betraying their defined social roles. ...

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At the end of the nineteenth century, America moved from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era where the social activists, politicians, and professionals called for social reforms in order to deal with the social problems associated with the rapid industrial growth. ... The Declaration of Independence that advocated liberty and fairness nearly had no influence on improving the status of women. ... Hence, the court's decision enhanced the prevalence of male supremacy in society, and as wives in their man dominated families, women lost their voices and status. ...

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These observations allow the audience to discern that males feel that it is socially unacceptable for them to express their feelings. ... Adichie wrote, "We have evolved, yet the idea of gender has not. " Women have been fighting to obtain job positions of equal or higher status than men and with the prerequisites necessary for jobs today any women could uphold these positions. ... Through the ages, society has placed gender-based stereotypes on women, making it difficult to break status quo. ... They stick to the status quo. Men are resistant to talk about gender roles because thinking of ...

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