...of women and a cause of lack of progression made. With all of the hard work women endure and go through to support their husband and family, they receive no recognition, just the degrading treatment to remind them that their husband rules over them, that they have no say, and no right to do anything without permission from their spouse. Luckily over time, Indigenous Andean women’s rights, roles, and health have developed greatly since the 1940’s due to the development of education, knowledge, empowerment, and opportunity growth for women in Latin America. In this paper I have brought to attention the rough and unfair circumstances that Latin American indigenous women of the Andes have had to endure since the 1940’s to present day. The first subject brought to attention is the topic of marriage and what it entails for a woman of the time. Also included is the role of them woman and how they are treated and disrespected by their husbands in the early decades of this century. The I continue to dicuss how in future years circumstances change, and how women become more independent and even the role’s of the household out more, if not totally turn them around. Finally, I discuss the matter of health care to indigenous women in the Andes and how their culture has affected many aspects of their decisions concerning their health and that of their family. In both aspects that I have brought to attention, over time do get better and improve with help from support of men and of accessibility...
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...Sympathy Towards A Sorrowful Woman In A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin, it is a story of what appears to be a woman shirking off her wife and motherly duties. However, when it comes down to it, the narrative actually shows sympathy for the woman, through the peculiar introduction as well as the description of her actions. The distinct introduction to the piece references a fairy tale, however it also underlies a sympathetic view of the woman. The beginning quote “Once upon a time there was a wife and a mother one too many times”, can be inferred that she was a great wife and a great mother, just far too often. She was burned out. This leads into the rest of the story where the reader feels bad for the woman because she was overworked and just wanted a break. The fairy tale reference helps to increase this sympathy. In the beginning of fairy tales, the princess is always in a miserable situation (Cinderella is a maid, Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger, Rapunzel is locked in a tower) and the audience feels empathy towards them, so, by...
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...these, her virtues and her prudence, to the fear of God as their root. The worthy woman is a rare person among humanity because she aids the man in every aspect of the home. Not many women have the desire, grit, health, physical strength, and stamina to do what this woman does. To examine the worthy woman of God in the scriptures is to embark upon a journey that leaves a man at awe in relationship to this person's faith, work ethic, love, devotion, and trustworthiness. The woman who meets the identity of "worthy" has the trust of her husband. The husband will trust this woman's marital fidelity and her genuine love for their children's spiritual well being. The "worthy woman" gives no cause for the man to be concerned of adultery, ruinous behavior around children, or the home period. Her desire for the overall well fare of her home is well known. The worthy woman is a "crown of her husband" in that he trust her and is not ashamed of her ways (Proverbs 12:4 / 7:17-20). The woman who lacks discretion, lacks kindness, flirtatious with other men, lazy, and odious is an embarrassment and rottenness in the bones of her husband (Proverbs 7:9-12). The writer also places a heavy emphasis on her hands. The worthy woman's hands are working hands rather than idle hands. The chapter will repeatedly bear out the importance of this woman's hands. While everyone else is sleeping she is at work for her family. The family must eat and she works diligently to see to it that there is...
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...Cross-Societal Comparison Report Introduction This cross-societal report will discuss the comparisons between the Italian family structure and the Australian family structure in regards to the gender division of household labor, family authority and paid employment and education. This report looks at literature about the two cultures from a Euro/Western point of view and does not touch on the indigenous cultures of their countries. 1. Household labor division 1.1 The Italian household’s, labor division. It is generally deemed that Italians have large families with many children. In Italy when a child is born the mother or woman of the home will re-organise her life to accommodate the new arrival. Palomba and Sabbadini (1994, as cited in Hennon & Wilson, 2008) calculated that the arrival of each child will add an extra hour a day to the responsibilities of the mother. The more children an Italian family has the less time the mother has for her own basic needs. It is customary that the Italian woman reduces her hours of paid work to accommodate the needs of the family and the tasks of running a home. Instead of sharing the workload the Italian family man will increase his work commitments to accommodate the growth of the family and the loss of income (ibid). The young Italian male is raised in an environment where there are real differences in what each gender is expected to do to contribute to the home. The Italian male would not be expected to help out with *...
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...In a patriarchal world, if that person is a woman, the reflection is often affected by the society of male dominance and unequal rights. How can self-image be perceived in a positive way for women? Self-Acceptance, much like self-esteem, at our deepest levels is either complete or not at all. Self-acceptance is something that is only achieved by those who can accept who they really are, “an acceptance of one’s self despite deficiencies” (Wikipedia.com). In some cultures, much like those of India in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni stories in Arranged Marriage self-acceptance seems to be an impossible achievement. Many woman in India, in addition to many woman across culture, enter a life from birth till “chosen” by a husband that is pre-defined. Given that, how does a woman find self-acceptance? A true sense of self and love? In “The Ultrasound” Divakaruni and in a supporting article by the Boston Globe called “The Girl Deficit”, Woman are shown as people who are manipulated and forced to make choices against their will. “The Ultrasound” tells us a story of two woman and their pregnancy and how when the gender is revealed, for one of the woman their life made a turn for the worst. Woman in 3rd world countries and in this case India, are summoned to choose death of their own child if found to be a girl. If before birth woman are said to be a burden and in many cases forbidden to conceive with in a family, what value does this set for woman? The female protagonist will be unable to achieve...
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...justice. Ban Zhao was a woman living during the Han Dynasty that was born into a family of scholars. Ban Zhao was a gifted woman that was able to be provided with an education suitable for a man (Admonitions for Women, 83). The Chinese society, therefore, believes that men deserve an elite education compared to any other woman’s education. Ban Zhao served as a historian to the imperial court to represent and take over the role of her brother, Ban Gu. She was able to teach...
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...Grounds on which abortion is permitted: To save the life of the woman Yes To preserve physical health Yes To preserve mental health Yes Rape or incest No Foetal impairment No Economic or social reasons No Available on request No Additional requirements: Third-party authorization by a medical professional is required. The legal period allowed is 120 days and the woman’s consent is required. Government view on fertility level: Too high Government intervention concerning fertility level: To lower Government policy on contraceptive use: Direct support provided Percentage of currently married women using modern contraception (aged 15-49, 1988): 31 Total fertility rate (1995-2000): 3.2 Age-specific fertility rate (per 1,000 women aged 15-19, 1995-2000): 25 Government has expressed particular concern about: Morbidity and mortality resulting from induced abortion Yes Complications of childbearing and childbirth Yes Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births, 1990): ...
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...will always be different traits of each gender that can’t be duplicated by the opposite gender. Many families have tried to make the responsibility roles more equal amongst the adult male and female in the house hold. In today’s society the women is still treated un equal, less human rights than a man and the American culture still tends to believe that a women can’t do a job that a man can. In the modern age, the women were expected to raise the children, keep the house cleaned and have dinner ready when the man gets home at the end of the day. Families were not able to pay for the expense of child care so the mother stayed home with the children. Many of the children were also home taught because school was too expensive or too far for the family to travel to. The man in the house hold tried to do some hunting and they grew their own crops to cut down on the cost of food. Times started to change and families could barely get by so it became worthwhile for the female to try and find a way to help out the family financial as well. When it was time for the women to enter the work field, it was difficult for them at first. Employers had a lot of doubt in the female’s work ability and the quality of the job they were capable of. In the eye of an employer, men are seen to be a strong individual and women are seen to be weak. For a while there was doubt in a woman being capable of being a fire fighter, mail carrier, police officer because these were known as jobs that...
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...The Proverbs 31 Woman One Virtue At A Time Courtney Joseph www.WomenLivingWell.org Edited by Katina Miller © 2011 | All rights reserved 2 Table of Contents Is the Proverbs 31 Woman For Real?..........................................................................................5 How to be Treasure to Your Husband.......................................................................................6 Does Your Husband Trust You?.................................................................................................7 A Woman of Action......................................................................................................................8 Working With Eager Hands........................................................................................................9 Shop to the Glory of God...........................................................................................................11 The Proverbs 31 Woman Rises Very Early..............................................................................12 Do You Have a Dream?..............................................................................................................14 Vigorously Clean Your Home & Get a Bonus Workout.......................................................16 Burning the Midnight Oil..........................................................................................................18 Mundane Tasks Are a Hidden Treasure............................
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...ends up in Sydney, Australia Alien walks around in search for his family/alien food Alien spots human life and immediately makes the mistake of trying to communicate with an old man outside a shop (joke as alien reads out the name (Tes-cooo) old man tries to hit the alien and it runs away,hides in an alley and sleeps the night next to some bins (describe the smell,surroundings,cold weather) Trash collector walks by the following morning and screams when she sees the alien After lots of uncertainty, the young woman talks to the alien and they begin to form and understanding The alien tells the woman that he is lost and very hungry Woman hides him in her wheelie bin and whisks him away to her home. Alien looks around the new environment of the home and knocks things over. Woman is surprisingly forgiving of the aliens accidents and the alien takes shelter in her room and eats beans on toast. (he is tentative to taste it at first but after one spoonful he downs it in one) Alien sleeps and mourns over being away from his family for the first time. Alien wakes up to hear the woman and her boyfriend arguing about her keeping an alien in the house. Woman introduces boyfriend to alien and alien smiles whilst boyfriend gives off a disgusted look at it (whispers to girlfriend “why is it smiling like that”) family sleeps woman has the day off and decides to search for the aliens family via the internet and news reports regarding extra-terrestrial sightings...
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...When read the book Mountain Wolf Woman, I mainly concentrated on the chapters when Mountain Wolf Woman was at her adult age. This was the time when she turned mature, had her marriage and started to make decisions for her own life. During such a period, Mountain Wolf Woman demonstrated her qualities like self-determination and courage by the instances of how she dealt her unsuccessful first marriage and made tough decisions to overcame the obstacles on the way pursuing her happiness. Not only in chapter IV, Mountain Wolf Woman had actually established herself as a woman with very strong self-determination throughout the book. But this self-determination was fully presented in the chapter IV when she had her first marriage. Her first marriage was an arranged one, and the instigator was her brother Hagaga who got drunk and gave his sister, Mountain Wolf Woman, away. As could be expected form most of the arranged marriage, Mountain Wolf Woman’s marriage was not a very happy one. Her first husband was very easily aroused to jealousy of other men and used to accuse Mountain Wolf Woman of having affairs with other men even her male relatives. Accusations like such could greatly hurt a woman’s self-esteem even when she was insulted by her closest one. It was by that time Mountain Wolf Woman set up her mind to leave her husband. Moreover, as Mountain Wolf Woman was married to her husband family, she found that it was very difficult to get along well with her mother-in-law. When she was...
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...how a woman who is a mother earns a less salary than a man who is a father and has to sustain a family. This happens, explained in the article, because the idea that a women become mothers start to give a less effort in their jobs, meaning they don’t work as hard as the men. The article starts by explaining how the ideology of intensive motherhood does not let a woman work as hard than before she was a mother. Ideology of intensive motherhood means that a woman has to be the one at home taking care of the children and house chores. Also, a woman being a mother and a wife at home takes up a lot of energy and time, which means that this should be the woman’s first priority. Therefore, a mother working the same job as a father is earning less because “…they’re more distractible when on the job”. This all means that a woman who is a mother can not have two priorities and that because she has children at home she can not give her full attention to her job. According to the article, this is one of the main...
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...Joads family shows traditional gender roles deteriorating as they travel to California during the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck explores the emblematic thoughts of gender at the time, by restating and challenging them. During the Great Depression, it was prevalent that the male figure was the head of the family, in charge of working, making major decisions, and overall supporting the family. However, women were perceived to be domesticated in their house, doing household chores, like cooking and cleaning, and bearing and taking care of the children. Nevertheless, in The Grapes of Wrath, the author John Steinbeck defies these roles that were stereotyped, by illustrating the development of the...
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...6/30/2013 | | The usual educated very dark woman wanted one thing to make their life entire, an adoring man. But the question is why do they desire to rendezvous men from out of their rush? One person’s opinion would comprise of either the rush would treat her unfair and possibly brain commanding everything she does. As for the usual educated very dark man, our excuse is we were coach by that usual woman. Yet we glimpse it every day. Why do very dark women date white men, or possibly Latino men? Or even better Japanese men? Yet the genuine investigation is why do educated women get with problem men? One cause is the believe topic. Women who are expert are very much having affairs with men who are commanding their every move. As it was mention in the first paragraph, men would use mental and physical means to make the Afro-American woman your domestics. Another reason there man would treated them like animals. One demonstration: All the Tyler Perry videos, with the exclusion of the following: The Family That Prays, Madea's Big Happy Family, and Madea Witness Protection. All the others would display how an expert Afro-American woman would be in a problem connection to a dark hue friend. Then the lightweight skin hue friend would come into the location and would save the professional Afro-American woman and dwelled joyously ever after. This can furthermore be describing as a fairy tale story. When a woman hit their 30’s the only thing they would believe about...
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...driven a man to take advantage of a disabled girl and her poor mother. The desire for money is the motif that through steps brings to light the purity of one’s character. The underlying goal to con and steal someone’s hard earned money begins by earning his/her trust. Mr. Shiftlet’s eagerness for money has caused him to become a greedy, heartless con man who moves from town to town scamming innocent families. One family that he targets is a poor mother and her deaf daughter. In his aspiration for money Mr. Shiftlet has been...
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