... without children. Women with children do "double duty" as they fulfill paid work expectations and predominantly fill unpaid work expectations of childrearing and other household duties. Along with child rearing, women in North American families also do a greater share of the housework. According to Statistics Canada (2010), "in Canada, women spent an average of 13.8 hours a week on ... out on advancement opportunities and self-selecting themselves out of assignments and promotions that would benefit their career" (para, 15). As women do the majority of housework and child care in additi...

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... in the home was literature and books urging women to subordinate themselves to their husbands (Epstein/Easton 93). This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. Women then became willing to follow the leanings of society and remain at home. Of course, the women had to be able to do ... many developed the desire to rebel (Epstein/Easton 97). There was also the feeling for some that they were failing in child rearing. They were being told that the "most primary and inviolable of human ties was the one between mother and ...

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... social roles (Obringer 1995). Differences in perceived intelligence stems from forced social roles. Tock Keng Lim pointed out in 1993 that historically female roles have revolved around child rearing and domestic labor, stressing skills of nurturing and managing relationships. Women did not receive the right to vote until 1919 and they rarely had professional lives until the ... parents claimed that their daughters seemed to be preoccupied with emotional circumstances and that most disregarded their schoolwork when emotionally stressed. Both parents also generally decided that the male c...

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... , although some aspects are more widespread than others. For example, in most current and known historical cultures, martial combat has been seen as mostly (or only) appropriate for men, while child-rearing has been seen as mostly (or only) the domain of women. Other aspects, however, may differ markedly with time and place. In pre-industrial Europe,for example, the practice of ... boys. In this way, gender is intimately connected to social expectations, rather than to sex: we allow the knowledge of the sex of a child to inform us which set of gender characteristics we are supposed to en...

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