... account for why women can receive less money than men for doing the same job (Golombok and Fivush, 1995). They can be used to explain why the political and social change which has allowed substantially greater numbers of women to enter the labour force has also concentrated them in the poorest employment (Golombok and Fivush, 1995). This is especially so if ... serve patriarchal ends in domesticity and work (Sarup, 1993). Liberal feminism recognized the gendered, social roles of wife and mother but advocated choice for women with respect to marriage, family, career etc., proposing to ac...

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... play a very big part of our lives and social constructivists believe have a very big influence on us when constructing our identities and also what paths we take in life, from career making decisions , personal relationships to child rearing and expectations of our futures. Many thought of as gender segregated jobs are thought to be more suitable because either men or women ... sex and gender. Some of these views on sex and gender can indeed be reconciled, particularly the biological and evolutionary views, after all biological factors play a large part in evolutionary change, and any c...

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... of how women should behave in comparison to the entrenched system of patriarchy that dominated Australian Anglo-Saxon society up to the late sixties and early seventies. From the seventies change began when patriarchy was challenged by women's movements and individuals such as Germaine Greer. In 1971, Greer's book The Female Unich focused on women's issues and rights helping women to ... . In contrast to this today's contemporary magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Cleo focus on freedom of rights of the working women, and less on marriage as the only really successful career option for wo...

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