National Policy on Women was introduced in 1989 under the Ministry of Women and Family Development, which has now changed its name to the Ministry of Women, Family and Community. ... Generally the Ministry of Women, Family and Community formed to increase public awareness of the importance of the role of women and the family institution to achieve the national development agenda. There are four other agencies under the administration of the Ministry of Women, Family and Community, Department of Women Development (DWD), the Social Welfare Department of Malaysia (JKM), the Board of The National ...

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They vary between one family and the next. ... This perfect image is not widely supported in reality. Breakdowns between families, particularly between parents and children, are a common occurrence in today's hostile world. ... Real families do not always follow the perfect ideals that television demands of them. ... These feelings may evolve into resentfulness and result in a break in once close family ties. ...

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Such was the case in many immigrant and lower class families. Wives often needed to work outside the home as well as within it to support a multitude of children, sometimes a sick or out of work husband and even to supplement the husband's ever declining income. ... As was illustrated in the study of women's increasing desire to work, marriage and families were forever changed by the changing woman's desire to be equal to her husband and to find purpose beyond caring for her home and family. ... As such, there was less emphasis on home and family. ... Women who worked outsid...

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To what extent does this novel uphold traditional family values? The Gulden family and many of Langhorne residence provide a model of traditional family life and value to a substantial degree, as prevalent during the 1950s in America. ... The traditional family is at the heart of the novel. ... He remarks "You and I have different role to play-, likening the situation to a literary scenario where the characters have clearly defined roles that evidently supports his behavior. ... Although she does not support the established gender roles within a family, she does not renounce "paternal appr...

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The Gulden family and many of Langhorne residence provide a model of traditional family life and value to a substantial degree, as prevalent during the 1950s in America. ... The traditional family is at the heart of the novel. ... He remarks "You and I have different role to play-, likening the situation to a literary scenario where the characters have clearly defined roles that evidently supports his behavior. ... Nevertheless Kate is seen by her family as a background figure. ... Although she does not support the established gender roles within a family, she does not renounce "paternal appro...

• Word Count: 844
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Parental support impacts gender identity and acceptance in more ways than imaginable. ... (Ungar 1) Every is different with unique family dynamics, as well as social, cultural, and religious beliefs. Some families need to consider their child's physical safety in their communities more than others, but all families have to weigh the effects of their parenting approach on their child's long-term psychological well-being. ... For the many people in this world who are sexually confused, I pray that they find the answers they are so desperately trying to find, through the acceptance of t...

• Word Count: 486
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Women were financially dependent on men and lost their financial support as a consequence of separation, divorce and/or death. ... For example, "51.6% of lone parent families headed by women are poor" (Morris, 2014, para.4). ... Women, particularly from Asia, make up the majority of migrant workers and often do not keep their earnings as they send their earnings back home to support their families. ... Often times these women leave their own children and families behind to come to Canada. ... Cool (2010) further supports the idea that the gender wage gap is largely due to women'...

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The importance of imagery in this context is that it is rich in rhetoric and therefore supports masculine power. ... The Imagery here supports masculine power by arranging it into a new configuration of the human relationships. The family is perceived as the basis of gender with the elevation of the father to the status of the sole parent while the mother is completely removed and does not play any role in the family (Fowler 54). ... According to Fontenrose, the imagery of the animal single parent means that the father is the head of the family and the mother is technically placed outside th...

• Word Count: 1671
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Traditionally, from the beginning of time, humans have always raised families as a unit, with each individual contributing towards the family to help in any way possible. Family was considered the foundation of living and a permanent support system that you can always rely on, to the extent that those seen living without family were questioned and evidence of this is still present today in some cultural practices (such as arranged marriages). ... A familial support system has shifted from a given to a disposable feature, where people would be willing to trade it in for individual goals. Billy ...

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They have done this by challenging concepts of gender, the family and the unequal division of labour underpinned by a theory of patriarchy that has come to reveal how it operates to subordinate women and privilege men, often at women's expense. ... Walby's explanation sees the household production as being a key site of women's subordination but acknowledges that the domestic area is not only one that women participate in. she shows how the concept of patriarchy is useful in explaining the relationship between women's subordination in the private and public arenas by s...

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Without full financial support from parents, teenagers must afford their daily basic needs as well as overcome difficulites by themselves. ... Firstly, the role of women is being changed from housewives to bread-winners in the family. Traditionally, the man has been responsible for financial support of the home and family members and the woman for childraising and house keeping. ...

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Living in such family, the self-worth of individual cannot be realized and the only thing you can do is obey the order of head of family and follow the family decision. ... In today's world, the modern "nuclear" family has been replaced to the traditional family. First, modern family has decreased in the areas of family size; the family usually has two generations consisting of father and mother and their children. ... Lastly, family is not the force to against individual to realize self-worth and social value any more, even more the family member become main force to support yo...

• Word Count: 1927
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According to Barling and Macintyre (1993) and Parasuraman and Greenhaus (1992) they reported significant relationships between work-family conflict and various dealings of psychological distress in women leading to depressive symptoms and a decreased life satisfaction. The research sited that of women with at least one adolescent child self-efficacy, work and parental roles proved to be significant predictor of work –family conflict. The concept of conflict among women focused on the individual's attempts to meet both general family life and employment obligations. In more recent ...

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Jennifer Donnelly uses simile in likening words with shining, luxurious pearls and symbolism to represent Mattie's mother's support of Mattie's dreams and her love of learning as a legacy. However, Mattie's integrity hinders her from breaking her promise to her mother to "never go away" and abandon the family. ... She continues to support her family despite her opportunity to study at her dream college. ... " Through the use of a rhetorical question, the author has emphasised the authority Mattie's father has over her and also shows us the underlying v...

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Her central mission in life is to care for her husband and children, and finds her major satisfaction in her family. In addition, for the traditional wife individual achievement is proscribed though she may help bring in the family income if it should become necessary; it should not exceed her husband's salary. ... The housewife lives in a private world dominated by family, children, and an occasional neighborhood tie. ... In their competitive world men enhance their own logic and rationality and they learn top deal with problems, not people, as they inch their way up the latter of sta...

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First, I will analyze the impact of various agents of socialization, such as media, family, school and peer group, in portraying men to be more aggressive than women. ... Furthermore, family plays an important role in enforcing the norm and stereotype of men and women created by the media. Boys and girls are treated differently by their family members from the day when they were born. ... For example, schools offer more support and encouragement to male students for their participation in competitive sport activities, but not for the female students. ... Governments are directly or indirectly ...

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It is believed that personal and family laws should be left to religious courts. ... This is a result of the fact that women's membership of family, religion and ethnic groups is more important than that of the polity. ... These organizations will need to be more politically effective in rallying support from local, national and international allies (Blackburn, S., 5). ...

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Many poorer Asian families think that having a son is more helpful than a daughter. ... Women are treated unequally in many aspects of society, at work, school, family, etc. ... In effect, women accept and even support an ideology that works against them. ... In some cases, it has strengthened the position of women in families. ... It is clear that women now support the idea of quotas thanks to its simplicity. ...

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There are at least ten pieces of parenting advice that can be found in Berk's book which are then supported by numerous evidence and research. ... The most common non-prescript drug used is aspirin and studies have advocate that the regular use of asprin is related to low birth weight, infant death around the time of birth, poorer motor development, and lower intelligence test scores during early childhood although there is other research that fails to support these findings (Berk, 2013, p. 96). ... Adults tend to speak to babies in what is called infant-directed speech or "baby ta...

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Historically the administrative structure is comprised of men and does not reflect the developing level of public potential and therefore on the opportunities or influence of women on affairs of a society, state and family. ... The politics until today remains the destiny of men; family defines the status of women in most cases. ... After that there is an explaination what do these results mean and did they really support the hypothesis or not. ... In the socialist governmental structure of the Soviet Union the state was the basic institute, having reduced to a minimum the role of the market...

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There is also a distress, for all concernes, associated with the unwanted child, and there is the problem of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it. ... My brother needed college to support a family. ...

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Our family structure creates a great impact on women's behavior in society, family life and the labor force. ... They are to succeed at a professional career, marriage, childbearing and child rearing, on a model of a male life pattern without public support in the form of federal of provincial maternity leaves, childcare, etc. ...

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The Libman ad tells readers that they are credible by including their family made logo, along with the year they were established. For over 100 years, the Libman family has made quality a focal point of their products and messages to consumers. ... The fact that Libman is family made since 1896 in the USA, makes the readers know that their products are well-developed. ... The company shows effectiveness with the supporting evidence that they can be trusted and that people should buy their products. ... Without specific data to support their claims to being a "better" product, Libman...

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In a system, these inequality-supporting cultural ideologies heavily put an emphasis on the idea that gender differences are due to biologically based traits that are inherent and unchangeably "natural" for both males and females. ... She was raised in a high-achieving and well-intentioned family. ... In that "perfect" looking family everything seemed right and smooth, but there were unspoken high expectations. ... During this time, I can only remember how stressful, how depressed and lonely she seemed, Even though we all were next to her, supporting and saying a blameful w...

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One of her main findings was that women base their friendships on intimacy, emotional support and nurturance, while the typical man builds friendships with other men who share interest in a common activity. ... "It is almost a truism to state that consideration of the woman-man relationship "as a sexual relationship, a core family relationship, a strongly enforced ideological goal and expectation "brings us near the heart of the sociology of gender" "(Chodorow pg. 67). ... This is the type of relationship where a man and a woman in a heterosexual friendship go into a deeper connectio...

• Word Count: 1760
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate