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Arranged Marriages Hindu Religion
2,239 words... ation. During the train journey back, he beat his head with his fists, and moaned aloud about the dowry and the wedding expenses while everyone, all of them strangers-women with babies and baskets of food, men reading newspapers or playing cards or discussing business-turned to listen with the keenest of interest, throwing significant looks at Uma who kept her head wrapped up in her sari in an effort to screen her shame. (Desai: 1998: 94) Papas behaviour is typical of the Indian male whose p...
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Ucla Wage Gap Debate Shiva Fatoorechi
358 wordsShiva Fatoorechi Equal pay is prominent issue at the heart of economic inequality for working women and their families. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 made it illegal for employers to differentiate pay based on gender. Similarly, the Supreme Court's 1974 ruling in Corning Glass Works v. Brennan, affirmed this illegality. Unfortunately, equal pay has still not been fully enforced. An unrelenting wage gap continues to exist between women and men. While the gap has narrowed since 1963, the most recent d...
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Gender Differences Perceptions Of Sexual Harassment
1,803 wordsAs Americans we tend to have a conditioned view toward sexuality as a normal, healthy part of life. However, it seems that one may underestimate the power sex has on culture, which is evident in many areas. Most recently discussions on a sexual nature received extreme national prominence with the public events surrounding the Kenneth Starr investigation and report, which focuses on the sexual aspects of the relationship between President Bill Clinton and a former intern, Monica Lewinsky. The res...
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Women As A Minority Group
1,269 wordsWomen have been discriminated against since the beginning of time, as early as the first people, Adam and Eve. Eve was called the evil one, who ate fruit from the tree of knowledge. Once she had the knowledge to know right from wrong, she chose to do wrong and give the fruit to Adam. Examples like these can be shown all over history books, in stories, tales and legends across the entire world. Women have been subordinate to men in virtually all societies throughout history. The ideology that one...
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Hours A Week Working Mothers
851 wordsMothers may work in an office from nine to five, but their work does not end at the office. After working an eight-hour day, a mother will come home to take care of her children, husband, and house. Women remain the primary caretaker and housekeeper of a family, and are also the primary caregiver for the elderly (Kelly, Garrett). All of this makes for a very demanding schedule. Typically after leaving work, a mother will pick up her children at a babysitter or day care, and then continue to cara...
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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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Womens Rights Movement 1960 And 1970
2,867 wordsSuccessful Movements to Improve the Status of Women in the Third World The role of women in society has experiences drastic changes during past several decades. There were times of rise and fall of womens position in the society and one of the factors influencing this position was the existence of various movements that were struggling for womens rights. Since the beginning of time, women had been working to advance their place in society. From the Stone Age through the twentieth century, indivi...
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