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    values that I own. However I do think that the person who deeply influenced me is my father. He always hold a strong willed character‚ trying to guide and nurture me into a great person for a better tomorrow. My father‚ the sole breadwinner of family‚ is fully aware of the family’s well-being. Persevering through his entire life‚ he overcomes many obstacles with determination to ensure that my family has our needs and wants. Never uttering a single word of exhaustion both at his work

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    This is exactly what Nora did. She found herself in a treacherous situation‚ and decided to leave it. Nora had become too dependent on Torvald. He was the breadwinner in the relationship‚ leaving Nora to rely on him for money. Torvald says to her “Has my little spendthrift been making the money fly again?” (Ibsen 2) She liked to spend money‚ and the only way she could get money is if he gives her some. She is

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    clothes‚ sorting them into small heaps according to color‚ and humming a song in a mournful key..” She likes her job‚ it helps her through the fifteen years she has married her husband‚ Sykes. In the marriage between her and Sykes‚ Delia is the breadwinner‚ coming home with money of what she has earned that

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    Before the nineteenth century‚ Americans were an agricultural-based community. There were many farmers‚ which were a family-based business and many tobacco farmers with plantation using a bunch of slaves. But as the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century approached‚ there was a dramatic shift in production growth‚ as well as a drastic shift in the communities. While industrial industries were booming as it resulted in the creation social-economic class between the workers. As stated

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    Wikipedia The Equal Pay Act 1970 is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament which prohibits any less favourable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment. It was passed by Parliament in the aftermath of the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike[1][2][3][4] and came into force on 29 December 1975. The term pay is interpreted in a broad sense to include‚ on top of wages‚ things like holidays‚ pension rights‚ company perks and some kinds of bonuses. The legislation has

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    family is about a typical big Filipino family with family members leading out roles in a very typical Filipino traditionalist lifestyle‚ that is; father/husband as the breadwinner and wife/mother as housewife and loving‚ obedient and submissive children. The basic plot of the story is about the most memorable homecoming of the breadwinner of the family‚ the father‚ who came home from his periodic inspections which were celebrated everytime these happened. But during this particular inspection to the

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    obviously runs the house and is able to guilt his wife into staying home while her husband is only out for “his” own pleasure and who really doesn’t care how he has made his wife feel. In “The Necklace” the reader finds another husband who is the breadwinner in the family and is willing to give up the money that he had saved for something of his own and gave it to his wife so that she could feel beautiful and fit in with others at a dinner. He knew that how his wife felt about herself was very important

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    Cheat sheet Like marxists‚ feminists take a critical view of the family. They argue that it opresses women‚ they have focused on issues such as the unequal division of domestic labour and domestic violence against women. They do not regard gender inequality as natural or inevitable. Liberal feminism- In terms of family they hold a view similar to that of ’march of progress’ theorists such as Young and Willmott. Although liberal feminists do not believe in in full gender equality which has yet

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    Idea – perhaps for context – have to give examples of how masculine stereotype is portrayed for thousands of years – greek mythology – ancient stories – see man as breadwinner. MASCULINITY – CULTURAL IDENTITY * Characteristics of masculinity and femininity are naturalised in almost every society‚ but differ based on diverse environments‚ values and changing time periods. In literature‚ these assumptions come to underpin the construction of key characters. * In Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet

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    family is becoming a reality women are getting more jobs and men are getting more involved around at home. D.H.J Morgan point out that not all families fit the model of the nuclear family with a married couple with children‚ where the husband is the breadwinner and the wife the housewife alone in fact‚ this is becoming less common and more women now work (1975). However liberal feminist don’t support family diversity and different family structures. Liberal feminists want to raise families in a heterosexual

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