The causes of divorce discussed in this paper include, equity of housework and its relationship with two-income families, the Exchange theory and financial problems, Role Specialization Theory, age at marriage and premarital sexual activity and cohabitation. ... These case studies are relevant to everyday life and demonstrate that role specialization and a stable net attraction combined with barriers can have detriment effects on the survival of marriages. ... In the article Women's Employment, Marital Happiness, and Divorce published in the December of 2002 in Social Forces author...

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His model was based on specific roles for each partner divided strictly along sexual lines. ... As men and women accepted the roles set out for them by society, they looked for justifications for those roles. ... Both were shown to be completely satisfied in their roles. Were the assumptions concerning the roles of men and women valid? ... We have looked at the participants, their roles, the assumptions about those roles, and the implications of those assumptions. ...

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In order to investigate the extent to which the conflict affected the status of women, it is necessary to investigate changes in the following factors: the women's role as a housewife, paid employment, sex segregation, consciousness, birth rates and government policy towards women. ... Women were empowered as they never had been before, stepping in to the spaces that the servicemen had left. " They played an important role in agriculture, industry, the armed services, civil defence and other vital work during the second world war." ... He believes that there was a visible migration o...

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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. ... It is only through the advent of the rise in fiction by Indian women writers that the woman has been able to assume a major role in the novel. ... The role of the mother in India is considered the ultimate and most important role of the Indian woman and barrenness is considered to be the greatest disaster that can exist for a woman. ... In the novel, Rukmani is seen to fulfill all the roles of the Indian woman. ... Rukmani performs h...

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Conflict after divorce is a key role in the behavior of a child. ... Post-divorce conflict between the two parents will play the main role in how a child stays in close relationship with his/her parents. ... "Many researchers have examined gender-role orientation and, specifically, the relation of father absence to boys" personality development. ... "A variety of studies have shown that fathers influence children's gender role development to be more traditional because, compared to mothers, the more routinely differential between masculine and feminine behaviors and encourage greater co...

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These attitudes relate to gender roles and social changes in today's society and have contributed to women marrying later than their ancestors married. ... When women value roles that provide viable alternatives to the role of wife, they delay marriage. The role of women has undergone significant transformation brought about by changes in society. ... Feminism movements, with emphasis upon educational and vocational achievements for women, seem to encourage departure from traditional sex roles which were chiefly organized around marriage and children, and toward more extensive careers for...

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How women behave, their roles in society, their roles in a marriage, what types of freedom they have, how they spend their time, the education they receive, and many other things have been debated for hundreds of years. ... They were denied basic human rights and freedoms that men received with ease because it was believed that women meant nothing more than a means to an end in the lives of men and as their role in the household. ... It was expected of women to follow through with their assumed roles and position in society as well as in their family. ... It does not necessarily mean that wome...

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Petruchio and Katherine offer the contrast to the typical roles usually played by people of their gender. It is the changing of the roles that makes the play unique and keeps the audience interested in the play. ... He is playing the role of the stereotypical, stop at nothing to get what he wants man. ... The shrew's role has been described by M. ... Bradbook as " the oldest and indeed the only native comic role for women- in English drama (Wayne, Refashioning the Shrew, 161). ...

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Chaucer's vehicle to maneuver between the gender roles was the WB caricature. ... She argues that women should have the role of males, "soveraynetee by maistre" in marriages. ... The one weakness that comes forward in the WB character is when she steps out of the male role back into the female role. ... He was removed from the male gender role prescribed for him by "authority". ... During this battle, Jankyn and WB take on prescribed gender roles of modern society. ...

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Despite the frailness of their role in society, to overthrow the British Empire nationwide efforts were essential. ... Gandhi was influential for women moving forward, his new role model of 'equal but different' united the movement.13 In order for any change in relations, Gandhi stressed participation, and this was evident through the Non- Cooperation, Civil disobedience and Quit India Movements. ... The feminine qualities, and their roles as mothers, 'empowered women to find places in the public arena of protest". 17 In order to improve gender issues within India, women ...

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Many critics attribute this to the traditional role of a franklin in medieval times. However, this "traditional- role is often questioned. ... In it, the reader experiences the pain of love lost (Dorigen when she pines over the fear of her husband), the heartbreak of unrealized love (Aurelius), love and its role in morality and society (Arviragus), and the effect love can have on innocent bystanders (the student). ... They were housemaids that observed roles as maids, mothers, and were generally viewed as inferior. ...

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People who are getting married have love for their significant other, but to make a marriage actually work they need to take a part in their roles work at the relationship. ... A husband, just as the wife does, plays many roles and key parts in keeping a good marriage. ... There are five basic principles in the division of roles: spiritual gifts, natural or learned abilities, equal division when certain roles are necessary but either pleasant or unpleasant to both people, consequences of jointly agreed areas of responsibilities outside the home, and division by time periods or time availabil...

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In the United States there are many people who know how to speak different languages because they emigrated from different countries. Language is the basis of any culture, so if you take away the language you take away the culture. It is this loss of language that has taken today's generations from their traditions and culture. Culture is the belief or behavior of a particular society and the way of life of its people. In addition, culture also is the training, development, refinement of mind, tastes, manners, and all other products of human work and thought. ...

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It is my contention that pressures of a changing society, a time when women were struggling for selfhood, a time when some women, like Edna, found themselves totally lost, played a pivotal role in Edna's decisions and ultimate demise. ... While American culture emphasized individualism, American women were conditioned to accept a passive and submissive role and were taught that God and nature sanctioned it. ... The role of the woman was not to be the achiever but to be available to be used by the achiever for his advancement. ... Increasingly, they questioned the conventional role the...

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Scholarly studies of the Bible illuminate the role of women in ancient Hebrew times. ... Generally though, the Old Testament delineates the gradual restriction of women's public, religious, personal, and economic roles. ... "2 In Judges 4-5 in the Hebrew Bible, it relates that Deborah had a strong leadership position and heroic role; i.e. one of the Jewish judges. ...

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played a major role in American history and has clearly evolved in adolescent and young adult dating. ... In the present time money plays a role throughout the beginning and during the relationship. ... However, money is not the only device that plays a role on courting and its rituals. ...

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The Clerk's Tale and The Franklin's Tale address the social convention of marriage with reference to the role of obedient women and conventional versus unconventional marriage. ... The Clerk's Tale acts as a response to the The Wife of Bath's Tale in terms of ideals and the role of women in marriage. ... The role of women in The Clerk's Tale is restrictive, whereby they should obey their husband and never question them. ... Arveragus, in public, assumes the role of the conventional superior husband. ...

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The extent to which men are able to acquire multiple wives depends on many factors, including the economic prosperity of the man's family, the prevailing bride price, the differential availability of marriageable females, the need and desire for additional offspring, and the availability of productive roles for subsequent wives. ... Women play a crucial role in this process, since they gather and control other women as wives and companions for brothers, sons, and husbands. ...

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The narrator explains the importance of the role his father plays in his life as he says, "My dad was a decent man, a Bedouin of modest means who didn't always have a enough to eat, but he was nonetheless my father, and he remained the object of my greatest respect" (Khadra 24). ... This sort of respect and pride is what plays a large role in shaping the narrator's identity. The narrator's perception of his father guides his way of carrying out his daily tasks and it directly/indirectly plays a major role on his psychological behaviour. ...

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Infrastructure Mode of Production Hunting and gathering is believed by many to be the Ju/"hoansi's original mode of subsistence, however, since the 1970's the Ju have become more integrated with the global economy and have declined in many of their traditional ways. This segment will be discussing the primary subsistence and living patterns of the Ju/"hoansi prior to their way of life being overrun by the monster called economic progress. The environment that the Ju/"hoansi live in can vary greatly depending on the particular area as well as time of year. There are four main c...

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The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, is a complex work of literature. It combines involved characters with deep symbolism to tell the story of a troubled woman and what drives her to suicide. Because of its complexity, it is difficult to classify The Awakening into a literary category. On the surface, ...

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Life in Traditional India Imagine a place where a caste system rules the life of its people, where no matter how hard one works the caste one is in decides their life and where cow dung is considered a magical healer. That place is India. Within a country so far from the modern world, people live strictly by religion and tradition, by following their castes. It is that, that keeps them strong and has helped them survived for hundreds of years. Originally, there were four castes. ...

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The Road of Priestly Matrimony Imagine a priest driving down a road in his suburban filled with his five children. Riding next to the priest is his wife. He has been married to her since his ordination. This priest performs mass like any ordinary priest, but has special obligations outside of the ...

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How has the issue of gender superiority evolved in China? The existence of women throughout China's history was that of total inferiority. As the Chinese society developed women became subordinate to men. Even when death comes, this lesser position was brought out in the discoveries of ancient ...

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The Sexual Revolution In 1998, President Bill Clinton's confession that he had had an inappropriate relationship of a sexual nature with White House intern Monica Lewinsky started a national discussion about how a politician's personal moral standards might affect his or her ability to lead. Cl...

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