... carried out form the centuries to centuries, from the parents to their children (Schaefer 1989: 271). Another sociological point that discovers the separation if gender roles is the big difference in the moral side of these roles. Men usually are taught to be strong not only physically but also morally. The adult males become those whom the society wants to have - ... there are discovered the major theoretical explanations that explains the hearths of cultural and therefore societal distinctions about genders. The first theory - the functionalist one argues that the separation of gender ...

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... being used exclusively. A study performed in 1980 (Finegan and Besnier 1980) discovered that the female pronouns were actually being used in ambiguous situations but only with regards to roles that had low social status. For example doctors, lawyers and politicians were generally given the male pronoun whereas secretaries, nurses and teachers were generally given the female pronoun. ... remains is how the language should be changed. Pauwels (1998) promotes several strategies for changing sexist language she calls these: "Causing linguistic disruption", "Creating a woman-centred language"...

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... established programs to better the situation for the working class. Even more so then the working class, women's roles and rights have been neglected. The issue of women's roles in society has been shared common characteristics in almost every recorded civilization, with any significant progress being made in ... especially in the field of Maquiladoras. However, in Chile we can see the most important and widespread progress in the issue of women's roles in society. In 1877 the first steps were taken in the path of equating the lives of men and women. Chile was the first ... they soon ...

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... experiences, needs, and beliefs of people. " (Lum, pg 3.) There are many ways to classify diversities yet all agree that diversities are not a choice. Diversities relates to age, race, gender, sexual orientation, and size to name a few. The experiences of diversity that a person has make up their life. " Finding out about these multiple identities which shape the critical consciousness ... are as follows: Family background, cultural values, ethnic background, cultural practices, demographics of the country, minority status, history of the country, social class, oppression under the Talib...

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... trying to clarify that this kind of society could not satisfy the natural need of the individual for freedom. It all had to with power, with status and with the gender roles. The repressive attitude of the bourgeois society towards everything that threatened its own position of power demonstrated only too clearly how far it had moved from the standpoint of the ... has been hailed as a revolutionary work, advocating the feminist movement sweeping through the majority of the nineteenth century. A Doll's House blatantly challenges the contemporary Norwegian society's conventional male and ...

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