... of one television news station to create a news program that exemplified "old fashioned" news, where the story was the top concern instead of the look, age, or sex of the correspondent. The station was WBBM of Chicago, owned by CBS. Hank Price, the general manager and "brains" of the operation, so to speak, stated, "Our thought was: let's just base-line this whole idea of TV news. Let's ... get a group of good journalists together, put them in a room, and have them argue about what's a great story for that day." The anchor of the ... program would be a 51 year old successful journalist...

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... is too impatient and wants his love for Bianca to be known so that he may court her. He is playing the role of the stereotypical, stop at nothing to get what he wants man. Lucentio and Tranio produce a false Vincentio so that Lucentio might ... Bianca more about what he has done to win her over. Even though Lucentio comes clean at the end of the story, telling Bianca "Love wrought these miracles- (V.i.98), he is still the typical male. There is always a hope that his character might have more depth, but it was ... only "Bianca's love- (V.i.98) that guided his actions. Unlike many of the...

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... freedom and attention from all the people around her. At this point the writer brings in a cat. The cat is used as a symbol that she associates with Judith and her life. The story ends quite harshly as Luigi is forced to kill the kitten, which was given birth by a very young cat owned by Judith. Judith tries to protect the cat from harm in the story and later realizes how dependent ... the cat has become on her. This ... made her realize more about her life. This story shows how a woman becomes completely dependant on ... ...

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Women in The Winter's Tale The winter's tale was one of Shakespeare's last plays. As a typical tragicomic, the whole play is shaped into a two-part structure. The first part is the story about Leonte's jealousy which brings the destruction to his royal family. It is completely tragic and sad. With a narration from the Time, the latter part, which tells the things 16 years later, turns from dim scenes to be bright ... and comic. The love between Florizel and Perdita, the reunification of Leontes with his lost daughter and ... ", and an "audacious lady". She is appears to be aggressive in her f...

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... that have survived through the years, not modern adaptations. Hansel and Gretel begins with the traditional roles of women, with Gretel being described as the younger sibling who needs care and is willing to accept guidance and orders from others. She is given the traditional passive personality we identify with. However, with the progress of the story and by the end, the changes in Gretel start ... to show, as she more actively becomes a heroic female. Gretel comes to realise that the survival of herself and her brother depends upon her. Gretel plays upon the idea of the dumb female ac...

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... became a burden, more work than it was worth.7 The inhumane experience of Sati best personifies the injustice, where the wife burns herself alive in the funeral pyre of her husband. The deed itself was believed to merit wives as faithful and dispel the most 'virtuous type. This was a glorified myth through the eyes of innocuous men. The first hand story of Roop Kanwar shows this. 'On September ... 4, 1987 in the northern village of Deorala, Roop Kanwar learned that her husband had passed away. Upon seeing her in-laws preparing for an elaborate funeral, she, an eighteen year ol...

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... based on each individual's understanding in what the differences are in a boy and girl's experiences in education and the influence on expectations and behaviors of both genders. Teachers feel they are providing a quality education, but may not realize they are transferring their thoughts of what they students should be accomplishing based on gender. Great differences can be found in gender communication ... in our personal, social, academic and family lives on regular basis. Every culture has its rules and norms for each gender in communicating their message, such as males are considere...

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... an article entitled: Are American Values Shaped by the Mass Media, we presented with both sides of this argument. One by Neil Postman, who argues that American Values are shaped by the mass media, and the other by Horace Newcomb and Paul M. Hirsch, who both claim that the media has no influence on American Values. ... again, they just reassure what they had seen, through what they have perceived through the media. There are always two sides to each story. And how do they know that that certain laundry detergent is the right one to get out that grass stain? They must have seen some sort ...

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... on the idea of the restrained woman in the Victorian Age. Even though the title of the poem alludes to the fact that it will center upon the woman character, Tennyson places emphasis on the natural surroundings of the poem. Additionally, he focuses his attention on the exterior and interior environment of the woman rather than the lady herself. He demonstrates the seclusion of the Victorian woman using her physical environment by conflicting the prison that ... all domestic duties are undertaken (Gilmour 11). Therefore, her lack of satisfaction with the absence of her love is the cataly...

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... Service industries that promote gender diversity will be very effective. As the customers become more diverse, so must the company. A company can become more diverse by providing equal opportunity to handicapped workers. Often times, if two people are equally qualified, a job would go to a non-handicapped worker. This happens because the employer fears that there will be a large cost to accommodate ... with handicapped employees. Handicapped employees have an impact on diversity by offering a unique workplace. Unique workplaces are offered at multinational organizations. The most unique...

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... women in Malaysia. The government shall determine that the collection of data and information by the various sectors and government agencies separate by gender. In the success of the strategies, the government should give the budget allocations for programs involving women. To ensure the success of the strategy, the government can define the ministries and relevant agencies in carrying out the action for women's development programs and projects The formation of the national policy on women ... need some important documents. Among them are the resolution of the Final Decades of the ... ...

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... a support system of family, friends and other supports as a means to decrease burnout and stress. Part-Time, Low-Wage Employment Women hold the majority of positions in part-time, low wage work. According to Statistics Canada (2010) as cited by Stastna (2012), "nearly seven out of 10 part-time workers in 2009 were women. Many of those women are working part time ... looking at society, there is no doubt oppression is predominantly committed by the fully able -bodied white male. These men hold power and subsequently control the largest means of money and high-paying jobs. The media is th...

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... employment was perceived as temporary. Eventually these women married; or at least that was the assumption. The initial years of industrialization proved extremely difficult for females. Year by year women discovered improvements. The journey that began in the 1800s would continue. Fortunately, in the twentieth century women discovered an increased need for their labor. However, with more jobs ... people who look like them"".15 The stereotypes, whether conscious or unconscious, hinder the advancement of women. If the stereotypes are not confronted, the damage left by them can be irrever...

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... (Mifflen and Mifflen, 1982: 50-51). In Marxist theory, education is but another institution within the superstructure which is controlled by the economic elite to socially reproduce the class structure. The purpose of educational institutions is to legitimate the "exploitative class relationship" which is characteristic of the particular "mode of production" (Wilkinson and Marrett, 1985: 12-14). As such, educational institutions ... which is complementary to it, such as punctuality, and obedience. The development of the educational system and the forms for its development, are a respons...

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... Women has continued to shape interpretative attitudes of the conflict." It has been noted by some historians that the war reinforced traditional values in women, on the other hand it is argued that such an experience must have altered the lives of the women on the home front considerably. In order to investigate the extent to which the conflict affected the status of women, it is necessary to ... women's work." Therefore it is obvious that the abolition of segregation of the sexes in the workplace was not accelerated by the war, the government's policy to encourage women in to the factori...

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... many other factors that actually shape one's personality, one's gender. To these we can include upbringing, socialization, pressure of competitiveness in the world. Sociologically, gender roles describe the behaviors and responsibilities prescribed for each sex by a given society. However, ideas of "appropriate" behavior according to gender vary between cultures, although some aspects are more widespread than others ... playmates are all telltale signs. Sissiness is without exception not a physical, but a psychological problem, which sources may well go back to overprotected mothers, or ...

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... would have to work and earn a livelihood to feed and clothe their families. A black woman would have no protector; she would be exploited on many levels. From being sexually molested by the white colonizer to serving as a maid in a white man's family, nurturing their kids while her own kids were starving and were being neglected, a black woman would be constantly socially manipulated ... were worse-off than black men; they were victims of double oppression. They were not only subjected to racism and colonial subordination but were also subjected to misogyny by the male members of the so...

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... played a minor role in leadership styles, education, and motivations. It did not, however, determine the degree of business success. Introduction While ownership of small businesses has been predominantly male over the course of history, the last half of the 20th century demonstrated a remarkable increase in the number of female entrepreneurs. This great influx of women into small-business ownership has spurred numerous studies on gender-related ... that they see small-business ownership as a means of escape from this personal conflict. A study by Cromie (1987) suggested that men were m...

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... and homosexuality. Hemingway himself was often accused of being queer. It is rumored that Zelda Fitzgerald said he and Scott Fitzgerald behaved like lovers, but such accusations were generally mischievous, made by people who knew how angrily Hemingway would defend his manly, heterosexual virtue. The second, less masculine hero I mentioned before is seen in several of Hemingway's short stories and novels. In these ... restraint that he refrains from doing so. The short story "The Mother of a Queen" is about a rich homosexual bullfighter, who begrudges the $20 he must spend on his mother's...

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... Jackson, a lawyer, confronted Murphy's authority and stated that women were not considered "persons- in the British North American (BNA) Act. Under Section 24 it stated that: "The Governor General shall, from time to time, in the Queen's name, by Instrument under the Great Seal of Canada, summon qualified persons to the Senate - (Cochrane 46). Similar cases happened in Alice Jamieson's, also a magistrate, court and thus ... were inferior to men and it showed in her involvement and leadership skills in helping with the Person's Case. When many people began to discriminate the female magi...

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... and 90s when games were targeted directly at young boys. Damsel gets kidnapped, shoot some nazis, save the damsel; that was the template. And it was such a great template when gaming was just a niche hobby that required lots of money. Gaming has expanded though. It is a valid form of media and ... 50 hobby between men and women. Yet, people still associate gaming with the male audience. And people still think games are all about shooting some nazis. And some are, and thats great, any and all games are allowed to be made. But the current trend is leaning towards more of an interactive nar...

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... 's adversary. Even though she portrayed many of the characteristics usually attached to medieval women, her character was definitely unique. On the flip side of the story, there was her husband being controlled by her every action. Like the typical male character he tried to do the right and moral thing. He actually put up ... was Lady Hateful's disregard for her sexuality or conventional female role that caused Sir Hate to be riled up. Her actions are the center of the story and Lady Hateful had enough control of her husband that she knew how to push his buttons and make him mad. She co...

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... male allowed to see her) and eventually Himiko killed her brother and ruled with the prime minister. Arvind Sharma's book tells of a story about another woman, Princess Yamato, who is considered to be a kami herself now. She was a woman who talked to the kami and was shamed by rumors about her sexual relationship with a man, rather than brings shame to her family and their ... Shinto is geared more towards the country's women. The real situation is that Buddhism requires a firsthand knowledge of the people who have made the village what it presently is, the ancestors. Since women are no...

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... foible so amusingly" (http://www.splicedonline.com/00reviews/hifi.html). The novel was indeed an accurate depiction of the idiosyncrasies of amorous relationships. The reason for this stems from the kind of main protagonist present in the story. Rob Flemming, who narrates his account of heartbreak, is as idiosyncratic as the relationships he is in. It can be seen that he responds to ... gender roles quite peculiarly. It is therefore apt that a gender analysis of him be undertaken. Since the male protagonist in the story presents a male, mainstream viewpoint, a feminist point of view may...

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... rather than meaning itself. For instance, it is not necessarily concerned by the actual story of the text but rather in devices which provide meanings, like characters, plot and various literary techniques. In the extract from A Woman on a Roof the conversational device is thus used to provide the reader with a better insight upon the characters. Rather than making blunt statements on them, conversation is used. ... each other but what imports is that they are all linked to one superstructure, namely sex. In short, the main preoccupation of the story is sexuality. Structuralism notes tha...

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