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Are Cesarean Section Rates Too High?

physicians to their patients for cesarean procedures, rather than risk incurring suit by allowing a woman to go through the vagina...

Analysis of Two Poems by Sharon Olds

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

Women's Emotions in the Works of Kate Chopin

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

Frances Burney and Jane Austen on Realism and Women

not a trifle that will support a family nowadays" (Austen NA). As we can see, money is an incredibly important issue in this co...

The Body Project by J.J. Brumberg

counterparts. Rather than a lack of information about their bodies and sex, a situation that was common in the nineteenth century,...

Breast Cancer Risk

order to come to an uninformed answer to the research questions. Statistical analysis was not undertaken due to the inconsistenc...

“Interpreter of Maladies” and “The Woman Warrior”

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 in David Ferry’s Giglamesh

primary role was that of sexual object. But, at the same time it also illustrates that men did not like sharing their women with a...

Hormones, Testosterone and Personality Differences Between the Genders

been associated with depression and other psychiatric disorders (Simpson, 2001). For instance, "50-75% of patients with major dep...

Working Women in “Nine to Five”

much more smoothly with the women in charge, is a much happier place (Canby, 1980). The film is uneven and the sequence where the...

Mukherjee and Tan: Assimilation

The betrayal that Mukherjee felt in Canada 20 years before she wrote the piece echoes the feelings that Mira has, as she finds her...

Home Depot's Location Strategy

and even employees were concerned. One mused, "They are just doing this to prevent Lowes from getting into the market ... I am wo...

Gender Bias in Education: Girls’ Diminished Participation in Classroom Discussions

We begin with a brief literature review, then follow that with a discussion of the consensus, if there is one, of what the literat...

Social Security Versus The American Dream

public transportation or carpooling with friends. To fill up the tank of this older model, low mileage car costs $75. Moreover, ...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

BREAST CANCER -- MICHIGAN

Wisdom, 2004). Between 1990 and 2000, breast cancers diagnosed earlier (thus leading to a higher survival rate), increase...

Sexual Harassment Case - Co-Workers

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...

Developing Identity: Gender in the 50s and 60s

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

“American Women in Flight Since 1940”: Insight into a Woman’s Place in Our Society

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

How the Media Portrays Princess Diana

other inconvenient women with temporal ties to the throne" (6). In truth, Diana did bear a significant burden in her time in histo...

Sociology and “The Bachelor”

him with 25 women; during the run of the program, the man winnows out the women until one "winner" is left. There are a number of ...

Gender Stereotyping on Television

1950s show "The Honeymooners", Lucy and Ricky Ricardo in "Lucy" the popular television show of the 1960s, Archie and Edith Bunker ...

Differences Between Female and Male Leaders

percentage of women in the United States who aspire to top executive positions than in other countries (Clark, 2006). There is a g...

Why Men Hit Women

no control in the outside world and need to feel power at home. Perhaps they desire the power because they were abused as a child ...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Human Rights Issues

short history, 1997). The womens movement won women the right to vote and national liberation efforts in many countries drove out ...

Considerations in Women’s Health Care

against which to compare their progress. Some of the health problems affecting women are acute in nature and others are chr...

Roe v. Wade Will Never be Overturned

the state has no interest in fetal life prior to a certain stage of development (when the fetus had developed to the point where i...

Annie Hall

the film is Allens character Alvy who seems to have so many problems it becomes hilarious and insane, often presenting psychologic...

Discrimination and Affirmative Action and Their Connection to Utilitarianism and Deontological Concerns

achieved" (Kay , 1997). That is, Kant said that it was not the outcomes of actions that were important but the intent of the perso...