... have worked because their husbands would not have been able to support them and their many children on his wages alone. She would have had so many children due to the high death rate because there was no cure for disease and there was no contraception. She would have taken any jobs she could find, for example gathering hay in a field and ... have had to work and look after many children due to the high death rate. - Source 10. Lots of women were housewives to, would have needed to have swept the house and looked after the children. -Source13 Noble women may have watched torments every l...

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... have worked because their husbands would not have been able to support them and their many children on his wages alone. She would have had so many children due to the high death rate because there was no cure for disease and there was no contraception. She would have taken any jobs she could find, for example gathering hay in a field and ... have had to work and look after many children due to the high death rate. - Source 10. Lots of women were housewives to, would have needed to have swept the house and looked after the children. -Source13 Noble women may have watched torments every l...

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... . Gay students as opposed heterosexual students face difficult issues every step of the way. They get verbally harassed, physically abused sometimes even with a weapon. It must seem as if in the whole world they are the victims. Eventually all of this leads them to skip school often to avoid humiliation. Establishing high school for gay does not necessarily mean that they are going to ... . People have segregated themselves for other reasons whether it is gender, religion, or race. So there is nothing wrong with wanting a gay high school especially since society frown upon this subject an...

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As far back as the middle ages, women has been involved in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. From Ada Lovelace, a English chief writer and a mathematician that was said to be the first person that thought of programming, to Patricia Bath, a 20th century inventor who designed the Laserphaco Probe that treats cataracts. The number of women in STEM fields are rising, but the number of men in ... STEM fields are still outnumbering the women in the same field. This is not only an epidemic that is happening the science, mathematics and technology fields but this is als...

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... was provided little or no formal education other than necessary household wisdom. It was considered inappropriate for a woman to go to market without chaperones. Community composition and law firmly imposed the ideal that a woman was inferior to her morally superior husband, required his guidance, and must submit to his wisdom. Aristotle wrote that marriage between men and women is naturally ... women, who had to work to help sustain the household, escaped some of these issues. High rates of pregnancy with inferior medical care resulted in high death rates during pregnancy and in childbi...

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Womens Prisons England 1700s: new alternative for a commuted death sentence was to transport convicts to the American colonies and Austrailaua with various work sentences. 1 in 8 women forced into sentences of prostutioin. Middle Ages: Women burned to death for commiting adultery or murder, while male adulteries and wife killer rarely considered offenders. Elizabeth Fry: Est ladies society for promoting reformation of ... reform prostitutes through religious and motivational instruction. Goal was to remold rather than punish women by encouraging proper gender roles. Civil War reform movement...

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... seigneur, beating his wife. It seems almost an established habit for the knight, flying into a rage, to punch his wife of the nose till blood flows." (Page 324.) However, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries dramatic political changes emerged throughout Europe and a high court system developed in France. Power shifted to revolve around the monarch who created palace life. "By and large it can ... life. Emphasis began to be placed on beauty and love, an emotion virtually void in the warrior society. Troubadour poetry and minnesang rose, creating a social elite of women. They be...

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... and expressive roles for men and women correspondingly. The another theory- the conflict's one - which hold as the main argument the power perspective. It says that the power became the main reason of roles" differentiation because, as it was mentioned before, the stereotypes and traditional values and principals reflect through the history and those norms that were stated in the early ages of human development continues to be powerful nowadays ... appearance, house and children. The uncontested supremacy of youth. Thus, the overwhelming majorities of women in high posts are young and a...

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... years of education. Then I controlled for age I divided the age groups into three different categories. The group labeled "young- is considered adults from the ages 18-29, "middle age- are considered 30-49 and for the last group labeled "old- are ages 50-80. I choose these different groups because they would ... 22 41.9 18 66.7 4 56.5 13 71.4 5 42.8 62 COL TOTAL 100.0 66 100.0 43 100.0 6 100.0 23 100.0 7 100.0 145 Statistics for age = 2(middle age) Cells contain: -Column percent -N of cases relig 1 PROTESTANT 2 CATHOLIC 3 JEWISH 4 NONE 5 OTHER (SPECIFY) ROW TOTAL homochng 1: SOMETHING PE...

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... Unpleasantness leads to discomfort and a generally disconsolate time at any occasion or event. Men should treat women with the utmost respect that they deserve. Women work just as hard as men and deserve to be treated with the politeness that high society feels justified to demand. Although some women are lightly offended by standard politeness, this viewpoint is inseparably flawed ... . Politeness does not necessarily insinuate that a woman is inadequate, only that the man will furnish her proper regard. When a man refrains from using foul ... "You look nice today" will illuminate any wo...

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... used to exclude girls or women from baseball. According to Dr. Joseph Trog, "any age disparity in bone strength was negligible between the ages of ages of eight and twelve, and if anything, girl's bones tend to be more resistant to breakage than boys."(Ring, 2009, p. ... differences between young boys or girls and if there are they can be easily overcome with proper training. "The real difference in sizes and strength show up by the middle of high school, when boys and girls are fifteen or sixteen years old." (Ring, 2009, p. 149) This refutes ... that men are significantly stronger tha...

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... that greatly surprised me was how many women are now in the labor force. Within a half a century, the numbers have more than doubled, in many age groups. Figure 12-1 shows the percentage of women in the labor force by age from 1950 and 1998. If you notice that women of ages 45-54 in the labor force participation went from 37.9% to a shocking 76.2%, more than ... States Government. A big problem for women although, which affects their social mobility, is the discrimination throughout the world that still exists. Harassment and abuse, sexual, physical and mental, are serious issues in the...

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... not to engage in sabotage or violence, participated in the boycotting of British products. Although portraying a high level of patriotism by taking part in the fight for colony independence, women were not permitted to attend either the Continental Congress, or the state congresses, nor did any woman sign the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. Colonists of female gender were asked to take ... ratified it. This, too, is extremely frustrating. In economics, also, gender has stripped women of success and opportunity and enveloped them in a spiral of frustration. Since the ma...

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... was that because Medea was a foreigner she will always be looked down upon as she was thought of as barbaric. This shows how low the position of women was in those days. Medea's intelligence is one of a high standard. With her intelligence she also is clever and cunning which are emphasized throughout Medea. When Creon tells Medea that she is to be ... some on irrelevant factor but they still add to the story line of Medea. This speech is one that sets out the positions of males and females thus the basis of most of the story. "A time comes when the female sex is honoured; That old disc...

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