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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 ...

Depiction of Women in Classical Greek Literature

In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...

Impoverished Women and Oppressive Social Systems

living above the poverty line, but after the rent is paid, there is little left over. In the examples provided, each of the women...

Pregnant Women and the Cessation of Smoking

deaths not caused by congenital anomalies in the United States (Wheeler, 1994). Links between low-birth weight births and premat...

Comparing John Stuart Mill and Mary Wollstonecraft's Ideas About Female Emancipation

live up to its promises. Mill realized that the male had practically unlimited power over the woman and that the institution of ...

Women and Alcohol Abuse Effects

have different physiological responses to alcohol (Blume, 1990). Some important issues for women are that alcohol dependency can ...

Midwives, Pregnant Women, and Quitting Smoking

more likely to give birth prematurely, have children with low-birthweights, and experience pregnancy problems like eclampsia. Fur...

Fonissa by Papadiamantis and Women

the roles of men and women and the cultural history of this place. It also offers a basis for perhaps sympathizing with the women ...

Maria Luisa Bombal's Works Compared

her life, her childhood, her adolescence, her adulthood and she sees the conflicts riddled in her experiences. Her role in life, ...

Female Characters in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Compared

etched in the hearts and minds of the mens affections they willfully toyed with. Estella is the quintessential cold bitch that vi...

Women's Rights Movement Pioneers

in society. Admittedly, each of these women lived during a time in which, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton so aptly observed, men sought...

Analyzing 'Death of a Salesman' from a Feminist Perspective

first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...

Confederate Women During The American Civil War

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

A John McGahern Fiction Ecocriticism

(Glotfelty; Fromm, 2003). It invokes thoughts of whether men and women write differently about the natural world, thus presenting ...

Politics and Women's Leadership Roles

general. Why might the latter matter? It is easier for those with more means to vote. People who do not vote notoriously do not ...

Government Roles for Women

based on criteria, but that criteria really should not include gender. Instead, it is thought that presidents choose based on all ...

Women's Studies and The Importance of Having Their Voices Heard

their study that men and women process information differently. Furthermore, this research team asserts that there are asymmetrica...

Pros and Cons of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act

remove the disincentive toward working, it did little to impact the increase in illegitimate births or the increase in births to m...

Differing Depiction of Women in Homer's Epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'

Greek society was that imposed upon them by either their fathers or purchasers. They would never aspire to privilege or influence...

Female Preference Shown in Policies of Sexual Harassment

This question of definition is addressed in the Harvard University procedure manual. In the manual, it is noted that defining sexu...

Women and Poverty in America

women were in a sort of Catch-22 situation. Charities did not want to contribute to able bodied women, but at the time women could...

Salih: Season of Migration to the North

where he is given the nickname "the black Englishman" (Salih, 1970, p. 54). In London, however, Saeed becomes something dangerous ...

Women on the Front Lines of Combat

In 1990 that number stood at 13 percent (Willens, 1996). In 2006 it was 15 percent (United States Census Bureau, 2006). As menti...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Victorian Women

that no manipulation of light and pose could have con- veyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed re...

Gender in the Workplace

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

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

King’s Premise of Non-Violence: Applications to the Women’s Movement

By the 1960s blacks and women alike, of course, had freedom in a technical sense but they each had a long...

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and the Depiction of Women

has not initiated these changes (Gaskell, perhaps, realized that would be going too far), but she accepted them, albeit with a lit...

French Public Schools and Veil Wearing Muslim Women

complete and unrelenting distinction between church and state. There would be no religious exceptions, whatsoever, and this inclu...

Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan

as adjuncts of male society, defined through the male gaze and the male cultural perspective....