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    Single Mothers

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    com/8301-505145_162-57550089/what- 2-year-college-degrees-pay-best/ Parrish‚ K Postal‚ L. (2013‚ May 19). Moms at work. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1353084699?accountid=12085 Quinton‚ S RAMPELL‚ C. (2013‚ May 31). More women are breadwinners. International Herald Tribune. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1356486383?accountid=12085 Single mothers U.S. Bureau of the Census. (2001). Poverty in the United States: 2000 (Current Population Reports Series P-60‚ 214). Washington

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    UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES CAVE HILL CAMPUS INSTITUTE FOR GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES NITA BARROW UNIT GEND 2201 WOMEN’S STUDIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO FEMINIST THEORIES Semester 1: 2011/2012 Written Assignment Name: Kasha Grimes Id # : 409002427 Lecturer: Dr. Halimah DeShong Due Date: 14th November‚ 2011 “Man for the field and woman for the hearth; Man for the sword and for the needle she; Man

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    Topic 1: Understanding key concepts Plot- the main events of a play‚ novel‚ film‚ or similar work‚ devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence The book Parvana is about an 11-year-old girl living in Afghanistan‚ under the extreme Taliban regime. The Taliban ban women from going outside without a man and Afghan women are forced to wear the burqa at all times in public. Her family lost almost everything due to the bombings/wars in Afghanistan. Her father sells their remaining

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    Poverty ‚ inequality & social security. What should the role of the State be in respect of social mobility? Additionally‚ there are two types of social mobility‚ and they are horizontal mobility and vertical mobility. Firstly‚ horizontal mobility refers to when there is a change in position of occupation‚ but no change in social class. For example‚ when an individual change his job from a managerial position in one company to similar position in another. Vertical mobility refers to when there

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    INTRODUCTION It’s 4:57PM and your superior has just emailed you and a fellow co-worker a project that is needed by 8AM tomorrow morning. You glance at the clock and realize you have two minutes before you must dash out of the office and rush 45 minutes across town to pick your child up from a daycare that closes in 30 minutes. Clearly‚ there is not nearly enough time to complete the request. You look at the office across from you and see your childless‚ single counterpart who simply smiles and says

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    just because I ’m a girl‚ I don ’t have to get married.  “ Such is the sad story of all females. Society‚ since early centuries‚ has assigned certain attributes and behavior. While it expects males to be strong‚ dominating‚ and courageous- the breadwinners‚ it compels women to be soft‚ delicate and coy- the nurturer and caretaker of the family. Women acquire the identity of a woman over time‚ not just by nature and biology‚ but by a means of complex social and cultural process. “The emotional

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    Angeles’ (2001) framework of power in households strengthen other scholars’ conception of the male identity in the domestic sphere. Household men provide “material care” to their families (Parreñas 2006‚ 117) as primary breadwinners (Angeles 2001; Gamburd 2000; Hoang and Yeoh 2011; McKay 2015; Pingol 2000‚ 2001). As “pillars of their homes”‚ they provide protection and ensure discipline among their children (Hoang and Yeoh 2011; Parreñas 2006). As husbands‚ they are virile partners (Angeles 2001;

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    “traditional family” from the 50’s is only a thing of the past. Women have dramatically changed in the past sixty years and are becoming more and more independent. This change is why our families are no longer traditional. In the 1950s‚ with a male-breadwinner and a female housemaker‚ parents were to be “friends and lovers”. This idea was about creating family togetherness as the primary source of emotional satisfaction and personal happiness. And for the first time in 100 years the divorce rates plateaued

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    Masculinity portrays that men must be tough‚ and assertive and be the breadwinner. Femininity in society represents women. Femininity is supposed to represent someone who is tender‚ modest and family oriented. Uncertainty Avoidance is how the culture adapts to changes and different events the environment may pose as threats

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    A young woman named Maxine Lampe achieved her goal of becoming a teacher. The school district refused to give her the equal amount of pay that men received‚ even though Lampe was the sole earner while her husband was in graduate school. Later‚ Lampe went into public school administration and found once again that her gender — and marital status — was a factor in her pay. While trying to negotiate her salary‚ one of the board members told her‚ “You don’t need as much pay because your husband is a

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