The female exciser knelt and began to cut. ... Whether it is a tradition, female circumcisions should be illegal all over the world. ... The practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) has existed for years. ... Both infant and mother death is highest in countries such as Somalia, where infibulations is large. ... Female mutilation is a common practice that should be illegal all over the world. ...

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Forced abortions, sterilization and the killing of innocent infants is cruel and unnecessary. ... There has been a large increase on the number of deaths in the female infants that have been caused by their own parents. ... Which means that the female infants are often killed, aborted, or left to die. According to a 1992 survey, the sex ratio of newborns was 118 males for every 100 females. ... Regardless of being a female or male all children should be treated equally and should not be favored by what sex they are. ...

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Womens Prisons England 1700s: new alternative for a commuted death sentence was to transport convicts to the American colonies and Austrailaua with various work sentences. 1 in 8 women forced into sentences of prostutioin. Middle Ages: Women burned to death for commiting adultery or murder,...

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Again from Xenophon, a male character explains gender roles: the wife is to stay indoors and nurse infants and make cloth, prepare food, supervise the indoor workers, budget household income and expenditures, see that ill slaves are tended, servants are trained (Scaife). A female character in Aristophanes' play, Lysistrata, by the name of Calonice once said, "We're always dancing attendance on our husbands, or getting the maid moving, or putting the baby to bed, bathing it, feeding" (Grant 6). Not only were male characters in Greek theatre explaining the gender roles but, ...

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This Act was implemented to connect the effects of discrimination on female and minority workers. ... In Jeanne Halladay Gouglin's published book, The Rise of Women Entrepreneurs, she depicts the four major and distinct economic motivations for female entrepreneurs. ... The principle reason and belief she has for making her ultimate decision of withdrawing from workforce participation was her strong belief in the "Infant Attachment Theory."" ... William's book, Working Women, she writes that "mother-infant bonding is a myth."" ...

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Not only does the equitable healthcare system contribute to increased job performance; quality of life is enhanced as evidenced by Germany's high life expectancy and low infant mortality rate. 4. ... Secondly, there is a resource of female workers in Germany to be utilized that will be beneficial to the company and the social structure as a whole. ... The incentives for female applicants are strong in those female managers are highly regarded in Germany as noted by their numbers. This is very encouraging to female applicants already in management as well as those who seek to advance ...

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People are born female or male, but learn to be women and men. ... But in all cultures, gender determines power and resources for females and males. ... A World Bank report concluded that reducing gender inequality leads to falling infant and child mortality, improved nutrition, higher economic productivity and faster growth. ... Talking about gender is talking about roles which brought based on sex distiction between male and female. ... But in native Indian, women appear as a female ruler because it was believed women have greater strength than men. ...

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The accusations were mostly pointed at older, single, women, but young defiant females were also included. ... Illegitimate pregnancies, infant elimination, witchcraft, and female independence from men were among the most common crimes that led to punishments or death. ...

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Through further analysis of some stereotypical female roles from Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony, and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman it will become evident that the females in these two novels are themselves heroes. ... The three female roles, the passive female, unsympathetic woman and new woman, all incorporate some of these heroic qualities into the creation of the characters. ... Another stereotypical, female role found in literature is that of the "unsympathetic woman". ... "Women were victims of discrimination from the very moment of their birth...an infant girl could...

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In the past four decades life expectancy has increased by some 20 years, while the infant mortality rate has fallen by more than half. ... In the poverty stricken country of Azerbaijan females are treated as second class citizens. ...

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Others see not only the physical but also the social, emotional and intellectual differences between males and females. ... As infants grow older, their parents" ideas about gender stereotypes continue to influence how their children are treated. ... Emotionally this is impacting on the woman because she has to teach other females how to be caretakers. ... The audience is almost all females. ... Gender roles by definition are the social norms that dictate what is socially male and female behavior. ...

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From all most day one, males and females are very different. From conception the fetus usually is more aimed at becoming a female. The presence of more female hormones as well as the presence of two X chromosomes compared to the odds of receiving one X chromosome and one Y chromosome, supports the fact that there are more females produced than males (Elium&Elium, 1994, p. 13). ... As infants, girls tend to be able to pay attention longer than boys, while boys tend to pay attention to something for a short amount of time but they are more actively engaged in the activity then girls are (1996,...

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She defends her opinion by giving the fact that "the female primates who did not receive the proper socialization make very poor mothers." This alone can already tell the fact that females are not the natural nurturers. Those primates failed to care for their infant because there was no social group to teach them. "It is not natural (instinctive) for [the primate], any more than for a human female, to be nurturing unless she has been taught this behavior by her social group." ...

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I found that men by nature were important and the female were less important, the male is the ruler and the female is the subject. ... "Xenophon believed that God had created women for this purpose and he also believed that since God had created the woman and had imposed on her the nourishment of the infants, he meted out to her a larger portion of affection for new-born babes than to the man." ... Socrates once advised Aristarchus, burdened with the support of his female relatives, to set them to work at the loom. ...

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In most cultures, maleness is valued more highly than femaleness, and different criteria used to evaluate men and women. ... In many parts of Asia, infanticide "the killing of infants "is relatively common and is more likely to happen to female children (Korbin 1983) ."" ... If married women gives birth to many female children continuingly (in a family that doesn't have a son), it may result in the divorce of his husband. ... Both males and females are capable of being excellent parents (or terrible parents), and both can be expressive or instrumental. ... Many women refuse to...

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On average 5% of those rapes are female-on-male with 626 children being carried to full term from male rape" (Stewart & Trussell, 2000). ... Since 1998, 25 female-on-male rape cases that result in pregnancy have been brought before specialty courts. ... They claimed that Shane, who was now 17, had the legal obligation to pay child support for the infant conceived through unlawful intercourse. ... Men should have the right to be exempt from child support if they are not informed of the pregnancy or have conceived the child from female-on-male rape. ... "  After finding Trevor, a fun...

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During the infant stages of America's development throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, settlers came over not knowing what their futures held or all the hardship they must first endure before finally building colonies that would grow and flourish. ... With Murray's strong feminist views and Bradstreet's tenacity to see change for the female role in society, they were able to begin the process of change for all women. ... A Poet's Pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits. ... Judith Murray was more precisely vocal in h...

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This is very interesting considering that infants are more alike than different on these early years of life. ... Even if the teacher is a female, she will pay more attention to the behaviors of the boys. ... Credit can be given to the scientists working on the research to find the differences in the male and female brains. ...

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The female's sexuality is controlled by males, or even by society. ... Since a woman's sexuality is considered to be one of the most immoral aspects to life to Muslims, many countries choose to almost completely wipe out the problem but just getting rid of female sexuality through surgery. ... Technology has created a longer life for most humans as well as a higher infant survival rate. ...

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The category sex refers to our biological makeup, and uses certain biological markers (such as our genitals) to create the distinction between females and males. ... The gender category woman (that is, the so-called "feminine" gender automatically assigned to members of the female sex) carries with it certain expectations about how to act, what to do, who to love and so on: Women are generally expected to be more passive, submissive and dependent than men. ... To the latter we can include (exemplarily): 1)Transsexual, TS -- (Considers herself to be a woman.) 2)Post-op, Pre-op, Non-op For ma...

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For a long time, the woman has assumed a secondary role in the first generation of Indian English male writing such as R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand. Indeed, R.K.Narayan's heroine, Rosie, in his novel 'The Guide' is viewed only in relation to the main protagonist, Raju and Raju's mother is ...

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