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    Women In Sparta

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    as Powell “The citizen women of Sparta were believed to lead unusual lives by Greek standards.” As stated by Lycurgus in the Great Rhetra women of Sparta were aware of their role in society in regards to staying healthy and fit to produce healthy offspring as well as partaking in the running of the economy. Women in Sparta were treated with the utmost respect‚ as they were an essential element in the ancient warrior society. Spartan women enjoyed much more freedom then women from the other polis (Greek

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    Women In Music

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    female musicians are further limited by social boundaries that occur in music Jazz Article 1 (Willis) | E/DM 2 | Saturday night fever 3 | Bass article – Clawson 4 | * Women instrumentalists are deliberately avoided/removed in the hegemonic jazz discourse to preserve the construction of jazz as a masculine space. * Women can only perform aspects of identities that are naturalized‚ and end up being largely written out of jazz. * Languages used to discuss jazz and by print are dominated by

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    Women In The 1800s

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    Gender Paper In the early 1800s‚ women from different races and classes have had to fight for the rights that the modern women now possess through rigorous battles against an unfair patriarchy. As more and more people started arriving from Europe to America‚ the American population skyrocketed. This increased the need for land for the growing American population immensely. Led by Andrew Jackson‚ the relocation‚ and removal of Native Americans started to take place in 1930. Native American tribes

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    Kuna Women

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    When looking upon many other cultures and the affects globalization and commercialization has had on their lives‚ in comparison to Kuna men and women‚ we find there to be a generally beneficial outcome. Although in contrasting of gender‚ we find women to be doing exceptionally well with the connection to Mola making. From the commercialization of their hand crafted products we are able to see them becoming active in marketing‚ retaining control over land and economic resources‚ learning and developing

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    Women and Entrepreneurship (Part I) |   | By Ronnie L. Goldberg | Thursday‚ March 11‚ 2010 |   | While at least half the brainpower on earth belongs to womenwomen remain perhaps the world’s most underutilized resource. As Ronnie Goldberg argues‚ not only is equal opportunity in the area of entrepreneurship not a reality — its absence is a drag on growth‚ development and poverty alleviation. | t least half the brainpower on earth belongs to women. Countries that do not capitalize on the

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    women in slavery

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    of Black Enslaved Women In the middle of the 19th century‚ thoughts about slavery differed from males to females‚ predominantly throughout the white race. The gender of a slave remained the main controversial issue about slavery‚ due solely on the fact that the treatment of enslaved black women was by far different from enslaved black men. Black women were raped by their white owners and conceived children from the assaults. They also had to undergo unfair treatment by white women‚ either by the wife

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    Women In Pleasantville

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    In the film Pleasantville‚ directed by Gary Ross‚ women are looked at as objects. When the husband comes home from work‚ he expects the wife to be in the kitchen cooking dinner‚ or already have it ready when he arrives home. Very few women had jobs‚ their initial job was to be at home doing housework and taking care of the kids. To me‚ Pleasantville represented women just like that‚ until the end. The mom ended up leaving her husband and started doing her own thing‚ which I think is great. In the

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    Women Empowerment

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    Women empowerment: A Reality check A woman plays a vital role not only in the development of a nation but also in the construction of an economy. She is responsible for nurturing youth and fostering the value system to serve the society. Studies have shown that there is a direct relation between the attitude of the nation toward female and the progress of the nation. Russia has 116 women per 100 men‚ 105 women in japan per 100A woman is a mother‚ sister‚ daughter‚ wife‚ worker‚ learner‚ highly

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    Women Discrimination

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    Women Discrimination Discrimination against women is a persistent social problem even in the 21st century that negatively affects women in many life areas such as education‚ domestic life‚ social advancement but mostly in employment. The main reason for discrimination is the mentality that the entire society was raised with‚ which was mainly implemented in people’s minds as children. Once implemented in a person’s mind‚ this kind of mentality is very difficult to be changed. Taken the example

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    Women in Prison

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    reasons why women make up the vast majority of prison’s population. According to the (National Women’s Law Center) women prisoners report significant histories of domestic violence. Thirty-two percent of women in prison about 4‚000 women are serving sentences for murder was convicted of killing a husband‚ ex-boyfriend or boyfriend. Six percent of women are pregnant when they enter prison. In almost all cases‚ the woman is abruptly separated from her child after giving birth. When women go to prison

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