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…behaviors have been very punitive. In the American colonies homosexuals were put to death by burning or drowning. Sodomy, which is oral or anal sex, was against the law in the United States until 1961. Illinois became the first state to repeal the sodomy laws…

…have the right to vote because she was a person too, and that it should be a birthright and not a sex role. Although for many years men suppressed women in the home, women were now out in the world receiving college educations and were quickly approaching…

…and that there should be no discrimination when it comes to employment. So no matter what your race, color, sex, religion or origin, you will be treated fair and equally. His next to goals go together. The first is being paid the same or pay equity. Reuther…

…preference. Even when a company has a clear policy on sexual orientation discrimination, in most cases it seems the rules are being broken unintentionally due to lack of education on the issue. One of the first steps that need to be taken is to change what…

…a total prison population of 200000-250,000 in 1975, the war of the sexes, the generation gap, unemployment for young African Americans has been at least twice our white counterparts for the last two decades, high rates of AIDS and suicide, poor educational…

…as a way to learn reading and to build vocabulary. Educational computer games have also contributed to the progress of technology. In addition, learning games such as “Hooked on Phonics” help with the development of reading and writing. A more recent method has…

…and further look at the inequality of women in education and the legal system. In Australian society we have talked about the 'fair go' for all Australians but this concept did not seem to apply to women, and women exchanged their domestic labour and sexual…

…relations among these educated middle class women. They nurtured a female culture where women could act, both privately and publicly on a value system increasingly at odds with those of the dominant male sex. The reform institutions gave women a way of defining…

…is the impact of the Peloponnesian war against Sparta. An example of his reflections is in the play 'Lysistrata' he wrote in 411 B.C. In this play Lysistrata, the first Ancient Greek comic heroine, organizes a sex- strike for young Athenian wives to persuade…

…GENDER The word 'gender' is frequently used wrongly, i.e. assuming sex and gender are the same concept. The first person to make this distinction was America psychoanalyst Dr Robert Stoller (1968). He stated that 'sex' is the biological makeup which…