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filed the vast majority of sexual harassment cases, illustrating the fact that sexism still remains a very real problem for women ...

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

inasmuch as they were "fortunate to live at a time characterized by open-mindedness and liberal ideas" (Jianying, 2001). This exa...

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

professional schools" (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). The results have been amazing: "The number of women doctors, lawyers, eng...

brain scarcely heavier than that of white women" (Gould 154). As this illustrates, Gould uses science history to show how deeply...

who is noble, honest, and humble. He fights for the rights of an African American accused of raping a white woman even though the ...

work and survive, this dream is simple and very powerful Throughout the Great Depression people left their land, when it was use...

to help the society survive, not to gain positions of power. Womens work, however, was considered just as crucial as that of the w...

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...

novels in that focus. In this particular novel many of the characters are drifters, seeking whatever work they can on one ...

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

methods are more useful when the researcher seeks to determine attitudes and perceptions. Creswell (2003) speaks to the former vi...

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

simply did an overview of the movement. One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Dec...

Much has been written about how womens societal roles have changed over the history of our country. One of the more interesting i...

the U.S. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the U.S.; her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. But even though she is American, the pul...

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

be defined as a sexual act and it made Peggy uncomfortable. According to the law, it is up to Peggy to do certain things before s...

like an angel because she was so caring and helpful, and I couldnt get her, or nursing, out of my mind. I soon realized that nursi...

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

record of 512 miles, from Chicago, Illinois to Hornell, New York (Bilstein, 2001; House, 2006). When America entered the First Wo...

stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...

herself to be more than just a social or racial icon. Instead, Condoleeza Rice has shown her ability to make decisions, be a part...

be educated together" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). She points out that if marriage is "the cement of society," then all mankind should ...

"include the collection and disaggregation of employment related data which make it difficult to ascertain the status of various g...