... Corea et al. 1987; Hammer and McFerran 1988). In many parts of Asia, infanticide "the killing of infants "is relatively common and is more likely to happen to female children (Korbin 1983) ."" It is difficult to know why women are treated differently, it is deeply rooted in ... parliament and other levels of power structures, has sharply decreased. Many women refuse to participate in electoral contests fearing unequal and biased reactions to female candidates. The post-Soviet Central Asian states already have experience of quotas, the abandonment of which brought a reduction in the numbe...

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... in shaping the particular identities that each person acquires during his or her lifetime socialisation is essential. These identities are linked to the performance of particular roles, such as male/female, child/adult, member of a cultural or occupational group etc. It is assumed that the social identities reflect natural differences between people, playing with toys and seeking attention of adults ... is the form of behaviour that the infants naturally acquire and the process of growing out of childhood and maturing into adult is often seen as something that happens automatically. It ...

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