Women in today's society are free to be outside and free to speak openly to men. ... In today's society women are also given public education as well as private and have the same rights as men to participate in singing, dancing and athletics. Spartan women were also unique in being able to own land and manage their own property as well as the women in today's society. ... This is very different from women in our society today. ... The Spartans sound much like women in today's society and the Athenians are the complete opposite but still today women are more free to d...

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In today's modern society women have achieved so much; from being simple "house wives", to CEOs in major companies. ... Women have always held the role of the "caretaker" in a marriage, and in American society. ... Today's generation is moving away from the "old" culture ways, at an astonishing rate. ... Society standards are what people around us expect of us. ... In today's society women are frowned upon by other women, if they choose not to take advantage of our progress towards employment equality. ...

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In America modern society, media has huge influence when it comes to in establishing what is feminine in society, and we can found it in many popular forms of media, including TV commercials, movies, radio, magazines, newspaper, and so on. ... With more access to social media and exposure to commercials, today's youth are receiving an overwhelming amount of information. ... Even though, women was only seen as the person who stayed home taking care of the house, children, and their husbands, today they can be more than that. ... For instance, in today's American society, we see many w...

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In the Scandinavian society that the book takes place in, men are supposed to be in charge and to be responsible for their family. ... He clearly doesn't like children, but because of society and the idea of a perfect family, he is supposed to have children. ... Overall the roles that are imposed on people by society have consistently limit both men and women. Ibsen's novel not only shows insight into a society from the past, but also has highlights a problem with modern societies. Gender roles have hurt people in the past and they hurt people today, and A Doll's House may help ...

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Women in history and today are still being viewed with an "old school" mentality. ... Society has the idea that women shouldn't take on the roles of men. ... To compare women of today and women of the past, women today are doing much more and have achieved a great deal in making themselves heard in this world. To just take a quick look at today's society, you can see women involved in many times. ... The opportunity is out there for women to accerlate and succeed in today's society. ...

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Being largest in population, these people constituted the lower class of the society. ... Today, New Orleans preserves its multiracial structure, but it is consolidated. ... Also, the society's perspective on women's roles and expectations from women has changed. ... On the contrary, today men prefer to spend time in multi-gendered groups. ... This play is a perfect example of the influence of society on an individual, and the attitudes of the society depend on the accepted norms in a certain period....

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The male will realize what is acceptable and isn't through observation in society. ... It will all depend on what's happening in today's society a norm for a male won't always be actually "normal". ... Today's society nothing is a norm; there are always new norms daily. The CMNI doesn't correctly depict the changes in society. Based on the article CMNI does not represent all men regardless of their race and ethnicity because as I stated before in today's society everyone is different, norms are not set and stone. ...

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Males are taught by society to be aggressive, show power, and never ever show signs of weakness (crying.) Females are taught to be polite, submissive, and respectful, but both genders in no way stick these traits that society has assigned to them. Especially today, with women now working full time jobs and men staying home more often to watch the kids or even do house work.. ... I believe the Navajo are a small scale of exactly how families today are evolving. ... Instead, in order to make it by in today's world a family must have dual incomes to be consider "well off" or more accept...

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These conventional gender roles were the norm back then and, to a certain extent, are still perceived today. ... Women today are already seen in firms, getting jobs in the workforce. ... Many of society's women today want to make more with their lives than just that. In today's time, the number of literate women are progressively growing. ... The gender roles in today's age are changing, and this change I think must be on the road to a society that has a gender equality. ...

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If you answered yes to any of these questions, you have experienced the inequality of today's gender role issues. ... Women were taught by society that the income had to be supplied by the husband. ... In the eyes of today's society, parts of this stereotype are still around today, but definitely not as much as they used to be. ... Looking at today's views of men from society, not much has changed over the years. ... In conclusion, society allows our gender to define who we are, even though it is not who we are. ...

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Incidentally, not all men in every society are the leaders of that particular society. Women, for example, in the Ede villages of Vietnam take on the same roles as some of the men of our own western civilization today. ... For this reason, it would be beneficial for archaeology's sake that more consideration is given to today's societies where the women may not be the absolute leaders, but hold very important roles within the society. ... A much closer look into hunter/gather societies may consistently reveal that women, although maybe not the actual leaders of that society, did p...

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Kate Chopin describes these emotions in The Storm a story that can be compared with similar themes today. ... Second, Today's media is centered on love triangles. ... Couples who divorce were seen as outcasts of society whose laws were built on biblical foundations. ... Today a first marriage is rarely accepted to last. ... In today's society travel is more common. ...

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Introduction The area of society I am investigating is the media and whether the media portrays men and women's roles in stereotypical ways? ... This meaning that the media displays information that may influence individuals to duplicate what they see in the media and live up to what they see in society. ... I have chosen this topic because being a female in today's society I feel that this issue affects us as women and I also feel that men are affected by the portrays shown in the media which explains their superior attitudes in today's society. ... I also think that the me...

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Society has shaped the traits of men and women alike, but many men and women are breaking the obstacles our society has put upon them. ... Part of the reason is the generation of parents who are raising children today, the "baby-boom generation," grew up with the way that their parents raised them. ... When a man, or what society's definition of a man is, makes any effort to display but one feminine trait, he is looked down upon, but why? In today's world of fashion, one will see many women and also see many men, but when some people look at those men, some of their first thoughts ...

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The Odyssey seems to be the product a society in which the dominant role was played by the men. ... Many of these characteristics are still valued in the women of today, now whether or not the women of today adhere to them is a different story. I think many of the women of today's society want to be beautiful, and intelligent, but it is not as highly expected of them to do so....

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Virginia Woolf uses a sarcastic, mocking tone to express her attitude toward women's place in society as she describes the two different meals she was served during a university visit. She uses two separate passages to compare and contrast the roles of men and women in society, showing how society regards men to be better than women. ... Through these two different passages, Woolf uses the descriptions of the men's and women's meals to express how women's place in society is far lower than that of men's. ... The battle with gender roles that Woolf was fighting so many ...

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Advertising does more than just promote mere products in popular culture today. Images that are used in advertising often set the standard which society feels it must live up to. ... By setting ideals, not only do advertisers sell their products, but reaffirm traditional gender roles in society. ... In today's society, the content of ads has shifted selling to a larger demographic in society as many of the gender lines have been erased and crossed over the years. ...

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I got the impression that women only existed to please men and to entertain them, not to perform a valuable function in society like they do today. Certainly the grabbing, hooting, hollering, and exploitation, would not be as accepted in today's society as it was some fifty years ago. 2 So, I had to wonder about the changing role of women, expectations placed on them as well as their accepted role in society, over the last century. ... Women were proving to men, and society, that they were no dumber than anyone else and were very, very capable of being more than a housewife and a...

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"The 10 fold increase not only signifies the importance of online advertising to the advertising and media industry, but also the rapid advancement of technology in online advertising delivery and display formats that requires researchers to help the media and advertisers to capitalize on the new medium and the society in understanding the increasing impact of the medium.... Today, advertisers practice a new method that is mostly focused on sex and the typical stereotypes of women as objects. ... In today's advertising, women are being portrayed in a more sexual way than ever before,...

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Women: Role in Society The world today has changed in many aspects of gender related life style. ... Feminism has a great impact on the gender role in our society. ... Our family structure creates a great impact on women's behavior in society, family life and the labor force. ... Today nearly all miners are men. Today women all over the world systematically occupy the worst paid, subordinate work positions, and have inconvenient working hours, more so then men. ...

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Advertising, being one of the most powerful and influential means ever, has encouraged us to mould ourselves into this ideal vision of how men and women should exist in society. ... However, in our modern world today, these ideals are no longer essential in gaining acceptance into society and have altered significantly but they still may be prevalent. Today, women are self reliant and career focussed whereas many men feel they have the right to self expression and self indulgence. This new outlook might be present in today's society but to what extent are television advertisements an accu...

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Today's contemporary advertising focuses on gender codes in selling products and this is especially true in the car aftermarket parts industry. Contemporary advertising in today's society focuses heavily on shaping the subject that is the male viewer. ... Contemporary advertising is responsible for the images that they present and are an influential institution in the society. ... Institutions have immense control and they must realize the effects their images have on females in society, and decide if money is really more important. ...

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The Modern Woman A Historical Perspective Women in the 21st century have expanded their roles and positions in society, especially those that were formerly dominated by men. ... Today's family model has changed; the traditional family structure of woman as homemaker and husband as breadwinner makes up only 10 percent of today's families. ... Women of today have more opportunities available to them, and can choose to be independent from their family. ... Today, some women maintain separate finances from their partner. ... In the past, society and the church would have shu...

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Today, and more prevalently in the past, gender stereotyping takes place in many aspects of everyday life, such as the media and normal social interactions. ... These expectations hold men and women back from expressing their individual qualities while shaming their role in society. For example, in the past when religion was the main priority in a society, women were often looked down upon because the Bible stated that the woman was made from man. ... Their role is society is only to reproduce and please their husbands, which is by far the most insensitive, cruel, and self-centered role to eve...

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Women of honor and courage who endured things that a woman of today would never endure. ... After a long journey, today we have women doing great things in the workforce, and men have put on aprons and are raising the future of America. ... Traditionally, society expected women to be the primary provider of emotional support for children. ... In these days, society publically frowned upon a divorced woman, and her children. ... Without their bravery and courage, women of today may have a very different plight....

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