... men were very hard laborers who worked at physically rigorous jobs. They worked in dirty, dangerous coal mines, where they labored all day and then came home to work on the family farm with the help of their sons. If the men did not work in a mine, they were soldiers who moved from base to base ready to kill if the country ... needed them to do so. Soldiers dragged their families with them wherever they were transferred, and the family had to accept the fact that their husband or dad could be shipped away for a very long time, or even be killed. While the fathers were at work for the lo...

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• Grade Level: High School

... a close relationship with her father. "Fathers tend to be more closely involved with their sons than their daughters" (Morgan, Lye, & Condran, 1988; Smith & Morgan, 1994; as cited in Strong, DeVault, Sayed, & Cohen, 2001 P.330). Although it still exists today, the traditional protector and provider role has diminished somewhat. The roles of both fathers and mothers are changing. More women than ever ... have entered the work force and fathers are staying home and raising children. ... have an advantage in teaching sons sex-typed behavior. Therefore, greater involvement with sons might b...

• Word Count: 1085
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• Grade Level: High School

... viewed as an evolutionary process. It requires time to abandon long-held traditions and attitudes and adopt more unifying and equal ideals. Women have long-fought for gender equality, in respect to, work, wages, salary, and opportunities, among other issues. Peoples attitudes towards women are slowly starting to change and more opportunities are being made available for them. The unequal treatment of women ... years since the end of the World War II (Shinotsuka 1989). Before the war, Japanese women lived in a patriarchal society. They were taught to respect and obey their fathers first...

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... anyone other than who they are. Without a change in attitude, this trend will continue, as the parents of today were the first recipients of equal rights and have not changed, because of it. Even if mothers and fathers hope that their daughters will grow up to shatter the glass ceiling in a male-dominated career or their son will be a wonderful father, who will ... help change diapers and clean house, they would be in a group of nonconformists if they taught this to their children, through play. Many parents do not go out and buy dolls for their sons, so they ... can practice parenting...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... maintaining relationships with other women. Even though all these efforts were made to conceal her sexual secrets, the lesbian content is still very slight, and hard to sift through the tedious details of her daily activities. Due to the time period of the text, it is important to have ... human rights at this time, since they were not considered "persons" till 1919. Women were the property of their husbands, or their fathers; they were the caregivers and nurturers of society. There gender roles were clearly defined, as were those of men. Like Lister, who was an upper-class woman from .....

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... use reinforcement, positive and negative, in order to strengthen those behaviors that they see as appropriate for the child's gender. For example, parents will reward a daughter for playing tea party with her dolls but a son would be punished. Many fathers engage in "roughhousing" with their sons, teaching them aggression ... the person who is not acting according their assigned gender role. Research has found a correlation between the amount of television people watch and the degree to which they closely follow the behaviors of their gender. A recent study found that children that had ...

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