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Essays 301 - 330

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Politics of Latin America and Women

legislative bodies the world over; since, when a woman enters government, she enters "a male domain. Parliaments were established...

Women's Equality and Plato

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

Women and Workplace Discrimination

gender as just one of womens many identities (2002). Many young women do not want to be labeled feminists (2002). Although the int...

Ghana and Public Management Diversity

to determine how the government of Ghana can encourage women to strive to reach governments highest levels. As Dr. Mehta (1999) n...

Richard Hoggart's Scholarship Boy

from even his or her family for trying to improve himself. Hoggart also addresses the working class who have taught themselves s...

Case Study Analysis of Earnings and Gender Discrimination

reason for the huge disparity in earnings between men and women. One reason behind this assumption is that women tend to take the ...

Race Issues in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

Canadian Income Gender Gap

pay ratio would be 100 percent, if women earn less, the ratio is less than 100 percent and if they earn more, the ratio would be ...

Women's Perspectives on Africa's Postcolonial State and Nationalism

efforts were not in vain, inasmuch as they "helped awaken others that followed her and forced them to mount offensives against the...

Gender in the Workplace

that work performed by men remains generally valued more than work performed by women. The reasons behind this inequality consist ...

Men and Women in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Woman in the Dunes”

that pushes her into insanity (Gilman). John is both a man and a doctor, and so presents a strong authority figure. When she firs...

Community Policing Recruit

threaten the innocent. Officer Attributes The first individuals recruited for the community policing program should be wome...

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 ...

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...

Muslim Women - Oppressed

injustice" (Cudd, 2006, p. 23). This means that oppression is perpetuated through some sort of social institution or through the p...

The Pros and Cons of Women in the Military

of things from a military perspective. There is not only the integrity of the individual and the integrity of the military but al...

Obesity/Hispanic Women in Tillman County, OK

$1,109,950 in additional medical costs for the county (OSDoH, 2007). Additionally the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDoH)...

Article Analysis: Power as a Theme in Women's History

lives, because it cuts across all the important dimensions: community, family and work (Sklar and Dublin, 2002). Power is also use...

Differences in Communication Between the Genders in the University Setting

politeness in womens communications, for example, that is often lacking in mens communication. Holmes (2005), in fact, describes ...

The Role of Gender in Violence

by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...

The Seven Sisters/Women's Education

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

The Role of Gender in Domestic Violence

abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...

Canadian Professions and Patriarchy

Canada. Canadas blue collar workplaces and her professional workplaces alike are characterized by gender stratification. ...

The Lives of Men and Women in America

course, on the home front, many women complain that men simply do not do chores or take care of the children. Often, it is the cas...

Women, Society and Gender/Rome, India and Han China

to many other like-minded societies, Romans looked upon women as possessions to be treated in often a violent manner. What this i...

Society and the Beneficial Direction Women's Influence is Taking

charge of other countries. In some way, the fact that the most powerful nation in the world is run by males plays into the idea th...

Gender, Women, and 2 Plays by William Shakespeare

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

Africa and the Practices of Dowry and Bridewealth

in that it effectively gives the bride her share of the familys fortune. Traditional Uses Hanson (2002) explains that dowry...