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… on the society and notably so since at least, the archaic times. While behaviors such as torture and rape are no longer socially acceptable or politically correct, they are still condoned and practiced in all modern societies, as well as endorsed in…

… sign an apartment lease, get a credit rating, or apply for a loan unless her husband or a male relative agreed to share the responsibility. Similarly, a 1965 study found that fifty one percent of men though women were "temperamentally unfit for …

… the most talented people for appointment, irrespective of their professional or social background. Women are under-represented in the legal professions and there are arguments to suggest this is due to discrimination. This discrimination…

… little or large a part it plays in who we choose to spend the rest of our lives with. Over the last few years I've dated my share of men, and after reading this article I realize that I have my own list of qualities for rating men and it has changed…

… of the paper, is not a unified theory. As women experience the social world differently (according to class, age or "race"), there exist different feminist standpoints within the feminist tradition - i.e. Marxist or Postmodernist feminists (and…

… the world experience the happiness and challenges of becoming new parents. Every generation goes through the period of having to raise its children to adulthood. Even though parenthood has a great deal of positive points for the mother and father, it…

… is her wedding day. It is a time that she fantasizes about for years, planning every little detail in her head over and over again until it is completely memorized. However, when the actual wedding is about to be planned, she realizes that there is so…

… beauty lends insecurities to "ordinary" women; making them feel that they are always in need of adjustments and that the female body is an object to be perfected. Real women's bodies have been lost in the eyes of the media and replaced by painfully…

… any time, for that matter. The waste of human life is especially horrifying if it is a young person in good health, who has his/her entire life to live. For a long period in human history, it was believed that suicide was the result of non-social…

… and play by the rules....No one who works full time and has children should be poor any more." --Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Putting People First, 1992. Obviously, to this day, the issue has not been attended to satisfactorily as shown by Katherine…