Since the end of world war two‚ in 1945‚ Australian society has witnessed many dramatic changes in the rights and freedoms of women. Women‚ who had been encouraged to take on men’s jobs during the war were expected to vacate these positions and return to their traditional vocation in “home making”. Throughout the 1950’s and early 1960’s women were expected to either stay at home or work in underpaid “women’s jobs”. Women’s wages were significantly less in comparison to the wages awarded to men
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In the 1800’s married women were treated unfair and unequal‚ and in this case inequality of all women‚ of all races‚ was very evident by the way women were merely property. State law governed in all states that married women were legal possessions rather than equal persons. Married women could not own any personal possession or property‚ all they had‚ became their husbands. In the 1800’s women had no rights to vote‚ and women would not have the right to vote until 1920. There were unequal wages for
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feature a car. Throughout the past 60 years car advertisements have changed significantly. The 1950’s used families to show cars were ideal and the way of the future‚ while the 1980’s and 90’s show biased “fact” based arguments and hints of celebrity approval. Today‚ the 2000s continue to enlarge celebrity acceptance and continue to make sex appeal more widespread mainly through the portrayal of women. According to Valerie Sperling‚ a professor at Clark University‚ “Women’s bodies have long been used
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In the early 1900’s the man was seen as the intellectual individual who takes care of their wife and family‚ who arrives home with the money and who was the supplier. However during the 1930’s this typical idea of the man’s role was extremely hard to keep ahold of due to The Great Depression. While the average woman worked on household dynamics and keeping the family afloat‚ the man was out looking for a job‚ or struggling to keep his current job. As a result‚ the average male came home at the end
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Table of contents: Introduction 3 Women working full-time in the home 3 Women and paid employment 4 Patterns of paid work 1921-1961 5 Factors influencing women’s labour market participation 7 Conclusion 8 References: 8 Introduction My essay will examine the women’s work in the Irish society starting from the early 1880s and will analyze the changes of women’s place in the Irish workforce. I will pay particular attention on women working in the home‚ those seen as the back-bone
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start at conception‚ however starts when the child is born. My opinion on this issue is that abortion is a private matter and is a decision that should only be left to the mother without any interference from the government and society. In Canada women are lucky enough to have the privilege of having the rights to their bodies however there are a lot of questions and concerns regarding this issue. Abortion should also be seen as the start of women’s control and rights when it comes to matters regarding
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Karen Anderson’s Wartime Women: “Sex Roles‚ Family Relations and the Status of Women during World War II” reexamines the various roles women occupied in wartime America. Anderson argues that though some historians they attribute women’s postwar employment changes simply to economics. Anderson implies that the 1940’s period played a more prominent role in developments‚ helping to accelerate the economic changes that would come after WWII. Moreover‚ though such studies exist in
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Women´s in the 19th Century European and American women in the nineteenth century lived in an age characterized by gender inequality. At the beginning of the century‚ women enjoyed few of the legal‚ social‚ or political rights that are now taken for granted in western countries: they could not vote‚ could not sue or be sued‚ could not testify in court‚ had extremely limited control over personal property after marriage‚ were rarely granted legal custody of their children in cases of divorce‚ and
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Abstract This paper goes into detail about the struggles women faced back in the 1800’s‚ as well as how they were treated verses men. Women weren’t able to vote‚ work‚ learn‚ and were considered “less powerful” than men. They were strictly known as “mothers” and their job was to take care of their family. In the second and third paragraphs of the paper‚ the author describes that women wanted change‚ and wanted to make an impression on the world. This caused movements and acts to be developed‚ and
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three authors and the literary works of women authors‚ Kate Chopin (1850 -1904)‚ "The Awakening"‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s (1860-1935)‚ "The Yellow Wallpaper"‚ and Edith Wharton ’s (1862-1937) "Souls Belated"‚ many common social issues related to women are brought to light‚ and though subtly pointed out are an outcry against the conventions of the time. In these three stories‚ which were written between 1899 and 1913‚ the era was a time in which it seems‚ women had finally awaken to realize their
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