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Eleanor Roosevelt Women Workers
1,439 wordsThe Contributions of Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11, 1884. She was one of America's great reforming leaders who had a sustained impact on national policy toward youth, blacks, women, the poor, and the United Nations. As the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was one of the most active First Ladies as well as an important public personality in her own right. When Eleanor Roosevelt traveled to New York City a week after her husband's fune...
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Women And Men Men And Women
673 wordsThe story of the womens movement in Russia demonstrates clearly how the sharpening class struggle polarizes women into two antagonistic womens movements: working-class and bourgeois. The greater the polarization of women was, the stronger the bonds between working-class women and men became. This conclusion was central for the Bolsheviks, who were intransigent in their opposition to the bourgeois feminists. Against this, the Mensheviks, who advocated a political alliance with the liberals, were ...
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Social Democratic Party St Petersburg
714 wordsThe few women in the underground party organizations were from the intelligentsia. Working women could not be persuaded to attend either the illegal or the legal meetings where Marxism and revolutionary socialism were presented under the guise of harmless lessons in geography and arithmetic. The working women were still avoiding life and struggle, believing that their destiny was the cooking pot, the washtub and the cradle... However, she wrote, the picture changes swiftly once the red flag of r...
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Southeast Asia Women Workers
977 wordsThe policies of the state both reflect and reinforce the gender regime having diverse and distinctive impacts on men, women and the family gender regime. It is well understood in political science, that the state intervenes in and regulates much of our lives. Our births are registered, our incomes taxed, our rights to drive cars are licensed and so on. There is less awareness of the fact that public laws promote gender ideals, that is, influence how we identify and recognize good feminine and go...
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Colonial Rule Foreign Affairs
1,671 wordsSexual Trafficking in the Philippines Filipino lives for sale at Philippine export market! All that is needed is to brand them Made in the Philippines before being shipped off. These caustic remarks were made by Teodoro Locsin while commenting the Philippine overseas employment program (cited in Kazuko 7). Locsin's article, however, represents just one of many critical commentaries (Kazuko 9). There are an estimated four to five million Filipinos living and working in over 160 countries and terr...
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Gender Roles In Marriage
2,715 wordsGENDER ROLES IN MARRIAGE ABSTRACT In no developing region do women experience equality with men. This clear-cut statement from the World Bank, the reputed international monetary institution, relays one of the most apparent yet often overlooked realities of our time gender inequality. Gender inequality is a significant social concern that deserves to be analyzed with the utmost diligence using both empirical and scholastic evidences. This paper aims to discuss the facts of gender inequality as ex...
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Social Democratic Party Women And Men
3,040 wordsWomens Roles in Communist Russia When the Womens Suffrage Movement was deemed a success in the early 1920 s, women lowered their voices, apparently satisfied with their accomplishment. They did not dare to acknowledge the remaining gender-related inequalities, much less vie for their decline. For over a century, women had fought for the most basic of rights. Mary Wollstonecraft laid the path for future women to follow, but women did not follow this path until they started to become used to the m...
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Women In Southeast Asia
2,400 wordsWomen in Southeast Asia An Indonesian activist writing in 1996 claimed the male-dominated regimes and masculine political cultures encouraged by these men created a politics that is competitive, heavily dependent on military force and infused with aggressive macho political habits. Feminine political culture, in contrast, reflects the legitimacy of the people. It is a political culture of calm, radiating, listening tolerance. He goes on to ponder why Cory, Suu Kyi and Megawati, managed to become...
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Civil Rights Movement 20 Th Century
2,270 wordsWomen and Equality Equality of man has been one of the most pursued activities throughout human history. Mankind has made several mistakes during this long quest for a prejudice-free society. However, in order for humans to continue evolving in the making of ourselves as better, we must look back at these mistakes and learn from them. Women's suffrage is an applicable topic when discussing this. If we look back upon the injustices that women faced, then perhaps we can look ahead and spare oursel...
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Number Of Women Labor Force
1,852 wordsWorld War II marked a retreat from the existing notions of womens capabilities and proper roles. With the men gone at war, women had to take over the work force. Government propaganda encouraged women to do their patriotic duty by leaving their homes and entering the workplace. At the wartime peak in July 1944, 19 million women were employed. This was an increase of 47 % over the level in March of 1940. For the first time, married women outnumbered single women in the work force. Women over thir...
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