This book studies and helps the reader to understand differences in the way the genders communicate, and offers advice for interpreting the language spoken by the opposite sex. When one considers that relationships take place outside the home, it is important to look at the ways men and women communicate differently in the workplace and how these communication issues impact their effectiveness in management and the way they are perceived by their supervisors and employees. ... As a result of this difference in communication styles, female bosses who try to be assertive are called "bossy". Me...

• Word Count: 1380
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

These men were called misogynists. ... In Athens, women were thought of as modern day "housewives", their place in the home. ... Women were thought of as property and when they would leave their home, had to be escorted. ... The author also reminds the readers that she is a member of the weaker sex and places her to her proper position behind the king. ... This was the first book we read that shows women with a high priority of taking care of themselves. ...

• Word Count: 1539
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Using this metaphore in his book "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus", John Grey explained the differences between husbands and wives, and counceled married couples on how to manage their relationships. ... The Tchambuli men were gentle, peaceful beings who stayed home, gossiping, while the women - heads shaved - were the dominant and extremely aggerssive tribe leaders. ... In our western culture we see a turning point during the 2nd world war, when women were called to leave the traditional role of housewife and assist the war effort by taking up jobs in different factories. ... In tod...

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Peggy Drexler from the Huffington Post, a few months ago the senate Republicans denied a bill called the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would correct the issue over equal pay between men and women (Drexler 1). ... This substantiates Kingston's claim that men consider women below them, but moreover it validates the claim that today this ideology doesn't just reside within third world countries alone, but even in our so called "advanced " society too. ... This is probably why Kingston's aunt committed suicide along with the fact that it was illegitimate in the first place. ... Commo...

• Word Count: 1810
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Women looked for a strong man who would be a good provider; men searched for a nurturing woman to make a home. ... Buss tried to explain the evolutionary truth about relationships in his book The Evolution of Desire and bases his theories on a cross-cultural study of more than 10,000 respondents. ... Research indicates that the places where people congregate tend to be of similar social class and race, "because of residential and occupational segregation, as well as other cultural factors, one average people get together with people like themselves (Coltrane, Collins 268)." ... Mutations in...

• Word Count: 1378
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In America as well as most Western cultures abroad, women's place in society was valued little above the livestock, slaves or other property that men owned. ... Fuller's affiliation with men like Ralph Waldo Emerson (who became her lifelong friend), Bronson Alcott, George Ripley and William Ellery Channing initiated her into the new world of so-called Transcendentalists. The Transcendentalists were a group of friends who gathered together at each other's homes for discussions on such topics as "Law, Truth, Individuality, Theology, Inspiration and Providence. ... She would hav...

• Word Count: 2090
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