... is also known as the national president of Canadian Women's Press club, the president of the Federated Women's Institute of Canada, and played an active role in the National Council of Women (Cochrane 45). Coming from a political family, Murphy's first political position took place in 1910, when she ... later two other women also became magistrates, one in Calgary and one in British Columbia (Cochrane 46). Although woman were beginning to play more active roles in society, the few who had succeeded were harassed and discriminated by fellow male colleagues and especially the ones who disa...

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Introduction A. Reasons for Undertaking Research. Today, during these democratic transformations, women are becoming more active in many spheres and trying to compete with men and take their rightful place in a new society. ... possible job loss 5.6 18.1 71.8 5.5 Job placement opportunities 5.8 16.2 74.8 11.9 Out of the 130 respondents, only slightly more than 6% are members or active participants of public or political associations. And about 80% of those who participate in political associations are men. Political parties and socio-political associations placed last. Only 10,7 ... a resul...

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... women that submissiveness and beauty are qualities for which they will be rewarded in life. Alison Lurie takes a different stance: "Fairytales portrayed a society in which women were as competent and active as men, at every age and in every class. Gretel, not Hansel, defeated the witch; and for every clever youngster son there was a youngster daughter equally resourceful. The contrast continued ... , are only given to those who struggle and deem to prove themselves feminine and worthy. Although there is a tradition for portraying women in a negative light, sometimes fairytales can demons...

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... amount of power in film and their women are either glamorized or tamed. Since "the male figure cannot bear the burden of sexual objectification"3 they are given an active power over the screen while women remain a passive image. At the end of her essay Mulvey establishes three 'looks' in which this scopophilic dialectic can take place: between the ... 's lifestyle, essentially prostituting her as he is paying her for her sex. This adheres to Mulvey's classic construction of male dominance and women submitting to their sexual superiority along with active and passive roles. Susana, m...

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... , being the business savvy characters that we are, have capitalized on man's raging sex drive through the creation of "the prostitute-. What better way to punish men for their overly active hormones than to make them pay for their sins literally? But instead of creating a successful profession, prostitution has turned into an illegal form employment. Critics argue that prostitution works to ... studied and rather it is their understanding of basic, universal vocabulary. "No- means "no- in every language imaginable, except for some reason that of men in times of an overly active sex drive...

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... also on Saturday morning cartoons. So children are constantly exposed to these negative stereotypes. A study of Saturday morning cartoons showed that women were shown less often than males, were less active, played fewer roles, and worked primarily in the household (Streicher, 1974). Though this study was conducted over 25 years ago, no large change is evident. More recent studies have shown ... affects boys over girls because boys represent 53 percent of the Saturday viewing audience (Beckon, 3). Commercials also for children's programs seem to have boys shown more frequently and in mo...

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... said at the time of Shakespeare to be more obedient in face of male authority. But ironically, if we observe the three women in the play, we find them more active, witty than men and have courage to challenge the male union. Leontes is angry with Hermione and Paulina because he can not endure the situation where his male power is ... the effort to break the male union. In other words, her action shows a possible ideal coexistence with men. Her mock dead is inevitable because in a masculine society, she acts too active and too witty to be accepted by the masculine world. How can men endu...

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... members of the male sex) carries with it a very different set of expectations about how to act, what to do and who to love: Men are assumed to be more active and dominant than women, and are seen to be rational, objective individuals. Men are more often associated with the public sphere of life, and are expected to be dependable income ... expected to love and marry a woman and to become fathers. Of course these descriptions are generalized, and there is some overlap between them. More and more women are recognized as active, participating members of the public sphere, while men are inc...

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... silence with all submissiveness" (1 Tim. 2:11). In Summa Theologica, Aquinas expands Paul's argument for female inferiority even farther: "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from defect in the ... active force or from some material indisposition" (Source Book 211). Chaucer refutes popular misogynistic perspectives propagated by the religious authorities of his time, such as those of St. Jerome in The ... ...

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... shifts, but by recent changes in the welfare system. Welfare has been an important economic resource for many of them. In Los Angeles, CA, for example, Mexican American gang members active in the 1950's and the 1970's became pregnant, on average, at age 18. They tended to rely on Welfare, combined with work and help from their families, to survive. However ... female career dealers. It was not until the 1970's, with the growing presence of hard drugs and the emergence of more criminally oriented gangs, that females began to play amore active role. By the 1980's corporate gangs dominated...

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... role of bringing up children in a patriarchal society is, stereotypically, female whilst the male function is more passive. This paragraph reflects these roles by presenting Frankenstein's mother as fulfilling the active function of tender caresses, whilst his father executes the more passive role, standing back to regard his son's developments. Therefore, without the ... active feminine role exemplified by his mother, Frankenstein's upbringing would have proved less favourable. Shelley contrasts this observation with the true sufferings of the monster. Frankenstein, in being provided w...

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... free of any sexual aggression. Their primary role in society was to be a homemaker. She was completely isolated from public life, which was primarily a man's domain. While the men were active participants in social life, women were not to participate in any kind of social life since there was a belief that it would taint their pure virtue (Lawrence 281). This idea ... ...

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... would be discussed. The group numbers, from 1 to 15, were used to maintain anonymity and although each person was expected to attend the focus group, it was made clear that active participation was not compulsory. Over a two week period, the groups were called upon to attend a small seminar room where they were greeted by a moderator. For this project, the moderator's role ... ...

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... 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 had to be active and pursue independence, to show men they were in fact of use. India achieved Independence from the British Empire in 1947, and to the Indian majority the movement was a success ... ...

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... rejection of what is considered feminine through the disconnection with male's mothers. This can be associated with Raewyn Connell's theory on the construction of masculinity and how it developed through active bodies. Connell states, "The physical sense of maleness and femaleness is central to the cultural interpretation of gender." Connell used an example to explain the importance of male ... ...

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... seven girls played high school sports, until approximately one year before the act's passing, girls especially at the high school level, began leaving their traditional roles as spectators and became active participants in competitive sports (Play On). Women were known to play sports that expressed feminine characteristics such as gymnastics and tennis (The Next Generation of Title IX: Athletics), and were ... ...

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... to come after school once a month for one hour of extra help work from myself and any bi-lingual volunteers that could help to integrate the family into playing an active role in helping themselves and their child excel in the English Language. Explanation: The one hour block would be spent communicating with a translator if needed going over and individualized education ... ...

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... ways that work against gender equity. Teachers socialize girls to act feminine. "Girls are vocally praised for being neat, quiet, and calm, whereas boys are encouraged to think independently, be active and speak up." (Reay, 2001) Girls see how being popular in school is important, where learning and ability are not as important. "Girls in grades six and seven rate being ... ...

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... )."" I feel that this is reaction to the many years of oppression that many of these women must feel. They wait their entire lives to join the Buddhist community as an active member and then once they do they are still disappointed with the role they play in the community. The new religious traditions allow the women an outlet of their frustration ... ...

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... 's advice and renamed their son. For a decade this story appeared in medical journals and books as a success story known as the John/Joan case stating that Joan behaved like any active little girl. This was far from the truth. Dr. Diamond's interview with the parents and twin brother revealed that despite the parents attempts to treat Joan like a girl the she ... ...

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... pays no heed to this warning and makes her sexual wish any way. This Fabliaux illustrates the thought that women were incapable of being rational, possibly because of their highly active imaginations, and that they had, in this case, sex on the brain. Again, in "The Chevalier Who Made Cunts Talk" the women are representative of Middle Age ideas about women ... ...

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... ); thus, subordinates are more or less perceived as "robots." In contrast, people-oriented style is defined as having concern with maintaining "healthy" relationships, and whereby leaders provide support, communication, and active interaction for their subordinates (Pounder & Coleman, 2002). This dimension, as described by Eagly and Johannesen-Schmidt (2001), "include[s] behaviour such as helping and doing favors for subordinates, looking out for ... ...

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... 1990 in Gergen 1999, 134, underlines added). In other words our language exists to enforce the accepted social order. According to this view it is the language that is most active in keeping society sexist. However it does work both ways and the language that enforces social norms can also be used to change them. If everyone becomes aware of the ... ...

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... of teaching so girls have more space in schools . By this, she implies such changes as re-writing materials and making videos. All of these efforts, coupled with curriculum reform, active teacher awareness and a wider more universalistic and non-sexist language in textbooks and classroom, should ensure that the path is being paved towards gender equality in the classroom. ...

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... marriage. 1968 is a major boost for "women's lib" or for women breaking out of their restrictive roles. No surprise then that "Woman" of John Lennon has been written by an active member of the "flower power" generation in 1978. Another well-know song of John Lennon "Woman is the nigger of the world", compares discrimination against females with the fate of ... ...

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