While there are about 30 countries that closed the gender gap, the continuation of improvement is mandatory. Iceland, Finland, and Norway hit the list of the top 10 of closing the gender gap, and Northern European countries such as Ireland, Belgium, and Nicaragua dominate the following positions. ... Women should have the same pay as men in the same positions for the reasons 30 and more countries closed the gender gap. ... Although males evidently portray themselves as the provider figure, leaving the wife to no choice but to domestically sustain the family, the wife is not only inferior to th...

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Also according to Maliki laws, divorce was the right of the husband, and the wife would only be allowed to divorce the husband only under very extreme circumstances (Charrad 1990). ... In most cases, women would receive only half of what a man would inherit in the same situation and distant male relatives from the man's were actually favored over the wife (Charrad 1990). ... These propagandas would even claim that "women could only achieve equality by fighting for a country freed from colonial domination" (Vince 2010: 446). ... The constitution acknowledged that the war for in...

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The male does not have to disclose any information to his wife if he does not care to do so. ... His treatment of the horse symbolizes his treatment of his wife. ... The description of how Adoniram sees his wife reveals both Sarah's character and the oppressiveness of the society. ... "I think it's right jest as much as I think it was right of our forefathers to come over from the old country "cause they didn't have what belonged to "em" (176). ...

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The fact that Mary Anne Evans had to use a pen name of "George Eliot" as she was a woman and her works would not have been published otherwise, shows alone what the attitudes towards women were, that of sheer insignificance in the country and in the social circle. In Britain today women stand side by side with men, in the struggle for Independence, and are playing a key role in the search for a lasting peace and consolidated democracy for the country. ... However these changes in attitudes towards women have not been shared across the world, countries such as Afghanistan still treat women wit...

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That of sheer insignificance in the country and in the social circle. In Britain today women stand side by side with men, in the struggle for Independence, and are also playing a key role in the search for a lasting peace and consolidated democracy for the country. ... However these changes in attitudes towards women have not been shared across the world, countries such as Afghanistan still treat women with little or any respect and authority. ... Similarly, his reasons for choosing Bessy for a wife re-enforce this sexist prejudice. ...

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National Perspective In the United Arab Emirates, Muslim men can freely choose their wife, but Muslim women are forbidden from marrying non-Muslim men unless they convert their religion. ... Societies in LEDCs and other third world countries would have to change their mindsets towards the way they treat women. ... The gender inequality index ranks countries by considering various factors; out of the 138 countries that have been ranked, Afghanistan is 134th. ... India is the second most populated country and has the largest democracy; however, women still face discrimination. ... National Per...

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The first country to introduce the right for women to vote was New Zealand in 1893, and much later in many other countries. ... The traditional wife would spend the majority of her life in the family, which in this distinction is private, and therefore not political (McCullough). ...

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A little girl who lives a lonely life with her mother, divorced, an intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to spend a weekend with her father and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy, and a good cook and gardener. ... But, pitying her poor mother typing away all by herself in the lonesome apartment, she keeps her guilty secret that from now on she will be living for the moments when she can escape to that dream home in the country where they know "what life is all about." ... The problem of abortion has existed for the entire history of this country (and beyond), bu...

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The country was in the middle of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and many people were left with a false sense of security. ... With less effort spent on being a mother and a wife, women looked to other means of entertainment. ... African-Americans were in search for equality, the Cold War, and the country was on the brink of falling into a war in Vietnam. ...

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"In a world that told them how to think, she showed them how to live." Mona Lisa Smile In the movie Mona Lisa Smile, directed by Mike Newell in 2003, three eligible women have choices and what they chose grounds them to the roles they play in society and what inevitable leads them to feminis...

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Communication and Popular Culture BUST magazine is meant to be an alternative outlet for women who are sick of the images given to them in the more established and conventional women's magazines. BUST offers quite a different set of values than most young women's magazines. BUST values the wom...

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