... reported very good or excellent income. The family is by far the most significant agent of socialization. The family maintains the major responsibility for socializing the child during those first critical years of life. Here the child gains a sense of self, learns language and begins to understand norms of interaction with parents, siblings, and significant others in his or her life. Parents ... their babies, and since boys are likely to be more irritable then girls, boys get more overall stimulation. There are clear differences between men and women in role expectations concerning chi...

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... middle class life. Although equality between the sexes has increased tremendously, men still disproportionately lead many of our public and business institutions. Women still do a disproportionate amount of child care and home rearing, and are more likely to give up their careers to do so. It is as if the male and female spheres, though merging, are still distinct and still resemble ... ...

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... as they wish, so long as no children are conceived. If conception does occur, the fetus is to be dealt with "on the understanding that there's to be no rearing for such a child" (459c). Most of Plato's argument is challenging to tackle in our time. Few would dispute that the best arbiter of employment is ability. However, the society Plato described only ... ...

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... next is often prevented or disrupted. Some of the reasons that may account for the difficulty women have in being promoted are outlined below: women have interrupted careers (pregnancy and child rearing) women take time off work to look after their families employers are reluctant to train women, as they believe that they will leave the workforce to have children some women ... ...

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