Women playing the same sport do not get the same kind of fame or popularity which usually a man gets. This discourages other women to play sport as they don't get what they deserve for their hard work. ... This women clicked a picture of a guy in her phone and put this photo on Facebook and wrote a big false caption with it. She wrote that this guy was teasing her in the middle of the road and everyone should share this picture until some strict action is taken against this guy. ... Later it was found out that everything the girl wrote was false. ...

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Lysistrata Lysistrata is a play written in 411 BC by Aristophanes, who was a satirist. ... At the beginning of the play, Lysistrata (an invented name meaning, She Who Puts an End to War) has summoned the women of Athens to meet her at the foot of Acropolis. ... This play has its merits and its downfalls. ... On first glance, the play seems to be no more than a simple, comical story. Aristophanes wrote the play not only to entertain, but also to make a stand against warfare. ...

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Even a female who wrote to herself without intension to publish, was looked down upon by the society made up of male writers. ... Throughout history male writers have played a large part in prolonging progress towards men and women being considered equal. In male literature, numerous ways to keep unequal roles were to stereotype women and make it apparent that men and women play very different roles in life. On page 632, Rich writes, "And there were all those poems about women, written by men: it seemed to be a given that men wrote poems and women frequently inhabited them. ... Rich strong...

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In ancient Greece, a famous playwright, Sophocles, wrote what became a classic play. Antigone is a play over the burial plans of their brother, Polynices. This play differs from many other plays of the time because it is the first to have a female as a protagonist. ... Creon explains the role in which gender plays in the Greek society, where women are frail and men are rule makers enforcers. ... Thus, this play varies from others of its time because of its feminist views, by having a woman challenge a mans role in society. ...

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Oscar Wilde wrote, "A Woman of No Importance," because of the general ignorance about the Married Women's Property Rights Act, promulgated in 1882, by Queen Victoria. ... Elsewhere in the play Hester talks about her hatred for Mrs Allonby. ... In this play, she lives in a luxurious country house. ... Men are praised and complimented in this play. ... Through the play we can also see that Mrs. ...

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In the beginning of the play, she is a stronger, more ambitious, and more ruthless person than her husband, Macbeth (sparknotes). ... During the time period Shakespeare wrote Macbeth women were uneducated, forced to act submissively, and keep their opinions to themselves (Wilson's).Shakespeare has used several women with powerful roles in his plays. ... When we first meet her, in the play, She receives a letter from Macbeth. ... Lady Macbeth is the one who calms him and plays it off as something Macbeth has always done since he was a child. ... It is women that keep the story moving thro...

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Richard Mulcaster wrote the words, "Nature makes the boy toward, nurture sees him forward.?Even though nature plays a role in defining sex and gender, nurture plays the greater part in helping society define the two terms. ...

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Anne Bradstreet's "The Prologue" depicts Bradstreet's opinion on the role women played in a male-ridden society during the seventeenth century and reveals her feelings about being one of the first female writers during a time where they were scarce. ... She wrote her poems while rearing eight children, functioning as a hostess, being a good wife, and performing other domestic duties. ... As a very talented writer, she was sure to put her heart and soul into each poem she wrote. ...

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Humor has bee incorporated into work, play and education. ... Humor has played a huge role in the lives of southerners, but until recently the southern women were unable, or not allowed, to show their own version of humor to the world. ... By allowing people to laugh at the men they wrote about, they allowed people to observe the injustices women lived and to break free of what women were permitted to say and not to say in public. Ann Stephens, an author in the 1830s, wrote about the injustice of some women's lives by exaggerating the differences in them. ... When she wrote about ...

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Society plays a big role on what is expected from each gender and in many cases they set very distinct standards for men and women. ... The boys are outdoors with their father getting their hands dirty in the yard or doing maintenance on the home, or playing sports. ... " I come from a Hispanic background, where culture and religion play a major role in gender. ... In her essay, Sandra wrote about how her father had wanted her to find a great husband and have children. ... As we have come a long way since evolution and we continue to mature and learn from our mistakes, gender should not p...

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The history of feminism takes us as far as the sixth century BC in Greece, when Sappho wrote lesbian poetry and ran a school for girls. ... In her work "Declaration of the Rights of Man", she wrote that "if women could go to the guillotine for breaking laws then logically they should have citizen rights to begin with. ... We see an example of Corrine Quayle writing to Senator Dole asking permission for her father to come to her school play. ... I think this role is gradually changing and media is playing and important part in this change. ...

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Famous mythological writer, Joseph Campbell, wrote the book The Hero of a Thousand Faces. ... In myth stories the hero is always a male whereas the female play a different role. ... For Campbell he wrote "she is also the death of everything that dies" the female can either be good or evil in the adventure. ... The female character plays multiple roles for the hero to grow and mature throughout their experience (Thury 160) . ...

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In 1916, Susan Glaspell wrote the one-act play Trifles. was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. She wrote the play in 1916, and a year later she rewrote it as a short story. ... This story takes us back in time to a place in our history where men and women played very different roles in their lives. ...

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One of the main topics of interest in the field of Shakespearian studies is that which considers the various roles that women play in the Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. Literary and historical scholars agree that women did not enjoy political, economic, or social parity with men during Shakespeare's time, and this historical reality is important to keep in mind when analyzing the variety of female characters in the plays of Shakespeare. ... The contemporary reader can't help but be aware of them and in many cases, to view many of the characters present in several plays by...

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Patriarchy plays a significant role in both ancient time periods. ... She wrote an article which addressed the obligations and moral instructions for women. ... For example, "To give her potsherds with which to play indubitably signified that she should practice labor and consider it her primary duty to be industrious.... In the ancient times Patriarchy played a major role in the society worldwide. ...

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In what ways does the Industrial Revolution affect the opportunities and constraints in women's lives in the 19th century? In the 19th century women were expected to live in the home and be constrained to the affairs of the household and family (children, her husband). The average woman had ...

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This number would be a lot larger if society played a better role in the upbringing of young women in America. ... As a child, young girls are taught to be little delicate princess that only play with Barbie's, Easy Bake Ovens and little Kitchenettes. ... In Holly Devour article, Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender, she wrote about how she support the claim that women of that era did start to model male behavior. ...

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She wrote The Handmaid's Tale shortly after the elections of Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain, during a period of conservative revival in the West partly fueled by a strong, well-organized movement of religious conservatives who criticized what they perceived as the excesses of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Women play tricks on your mind. ... At the time Margaret Atwood wrote this, the feminist movement had been setback a little. ... So she wrote this book, which in my opinion is about the power that women should hold rather t...

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Richard Mulcaster wrote the words, "Nature makes the boy toward, nurture sees him forward.?Even though nature plays a role in defining sex and gender, nurture plays the greater part in helping society define the two terms. ... Boys must play sports; girls must play with Barbie dolls. ... But while it is true to say that nature starts the process, nurture play it and in the end finishes it. ...

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Considering men play such an important role to women, men should be engaged and educated on what feminism actually means and furthermore, what a feminist truly stands for. ... Adichie wrote, "We have evolved, yet the idea of gender has not. " Women have been fighting to obtain job positions of equal or higher status than men and with the prerequisites necessary for jobs today any women could uphold these positions. ... Emma Watson and Adichie are both presenting that men play a close role in enabling women. ... Emma Watson similarly states in her speech, "Men are unaware of what life for...

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Marie-Aimée Helie-Lucas (#5), a participant in the Algerian War of Independence (1954 - 1962), wrote that the women involved in the Algerian Independence were not recognized for their efforts in the liberation movement. ... However, we do know for certain that women throughout the world played active roles in the struggle for independence. ...

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Her extreme desperation and aggravation is played out in a monologue she delivers during the play: When I gave birth I remember so clearlyshe came out and clambered right onto my breast and tried to eat me, she was so hungry, so hungry it terrified me – her hunger. ... Though the play is set in the 19th century, when Ruhl wrote the play, she came in with the mindset of a "contemporary woman writing with subsequent knowledge that informed her view of the periodIn some ways, people then were innocent of sexuality compared to the biological knowledge we've acquired about the subje...

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She likes to play the role of a matchmaker, and at one point she thinks that William and Lily should marry each other, and she thinks that this would be an "admirable idea" (Woolf, 2000, p. 42). ... He wrote to his mother; otherwise he did not suppose he wrote one letter a month, said Mr. ...

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For example, for the collegiate basketball tournament, tickets to the men's games are often played in venues such as Madison Square Garden and are still sold out. ... The news media often separates female athletes into categories based on whether they play masculine or feminine sports. Although more girls and women play traditionally "male" sports it is the feminine sports that actually receive more recognition from the media. ... For example, young girls are supposed to play with dolls and play house where they take on maternal roles. ... Wendy Olson, a writer for the Yale Law ...

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Organisational skills also seem to play a big part in the gender differences in academic achievement. ... Along with disruptive behaviour, rebellion can play a big part in boys underachievement in exams. ... Beatrix Campbell who wrote Goliath is referred to in the article, and she it talks about how government has focused more heavily on the funding for boys with discipline problems rather than the funding for the majority of girls who are keen to learn and tend to take more care in their schooling. ...

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