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    year‚ she referred to it as the Mad Men time‚ so I would say in the 60s. What was unique about her family was that both her parents worked. This was unusual for this time because most mothers stayed at home with the kids while the father was the breadwinner. Her mother went to college and found an interest in early childhood development and went to work at nurseries. As day care started becoming a trend‚ Hardman’s mother got a job co-administering a chain of day care centers. This was a huge time commitment

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    are paid a higher salary them the female worker for the same job title and duties. Majority of  employers take advantage of the comapany policies of no pay discussions among employees. Many women are the head of their houseold and are the only breadwinner‚ rasing their voice aganist such discremination mean losing their job; therefore they have no other option but to bear this kind of discremination. Economist Evelyn Murphy‚ President of The Wage Project‚ estimated in an article that over a lifetime

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    Adrienne Burgess‚ joint Chief Executive of The Fatherhood Institute says: “It is men‚ not women‚ who are most dissatisfied with their work-life balance. They’re more likely than mums to be in full-time paid employment‚ and to be the sole or main breadwinner. Full-time working men also work longer hours on average than their female counterparts‚ and tend to have longer commutes. “Crucially‚ few employers have strategies to support http://www.hrgrapevine.com/markets/hr/article/2014-02-21-parents-unable-to-balance-work-and-family-life#

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    been thrown about within society. They believe that within relationships‚ men are still the dominant sex‚ as they are statistically still the highest earners in Britain; therefore women have another reason not to work – in order to try and be the breadwinners of the household. Also‚ within families‚ women’s choices are still disregarded‚ which can be highlighted in the households of ethnic minorities‚ where women have very little say with regards to the running of a house‚ and also they have very little

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    to add variety to the meal‚ some households enjoy rice with beef and potatoes or chili soup. Another common type of lunch in Pakistan is “Daal Chawal”. Although‚ family lunches are not very common as the breadwinners are usually at work and return home for dinner. Although lunch for breadwinners may vary as traditional food is not eaten at work‚ due to its scent and thus they either buy food or have sandwiches for lunch. As no attention is

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    INTRODUCTION The term "intimacy" has captured a large number of sociologists’ attention throughout the history in that the role intimacy plays is of significance in terms of human experience(Miller and Perlman‚ 2009). Moreover‚ the understanding of interpersonal relationships and ties within the notion of family has been consisitently updated and deeply analyzed from a sociological point of view. Therefore‚ the purpose of this paper is to gain a general acknownledge of the extent to which sociology

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    of anticommunism and the cold war consensus.(May‚ p.14) May begins by exploring the origins of this "domestic containment" in the 30’s and 40’s. During the Depression‚ she argues‚ two different views of the family competed -- one with two breadwinners who shared tasks and the other with spouses whose roles were sharply differentiated. Yet‚ despite the many single women glamorized in popular culture of the 1930’s‚ families ultimately came to choose the latter option. Why? For one‚ according to

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    of the minimum wage‚ paid sick days and pay transparency (Grimley). The Center for American Progress recently released a report called 7 Actions that Could Shrink the Gender Wage Gap it states‚ “While nearly two-thirds of mothers are breadwinners or co-breadwinners for their families‚ women made

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    generalizations than the history of the family. Students will find the history of the family an eye-opening window on the past. They will discover that: It was only in the 1920s that‚ for the first time‚ a majority of American families consisted of a breadwinner-husband‚ a home-maker wife‚ and children

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    functionalist theory. He believed the family had all its different parts the play to make it successful. He believed the family was a unit of production and everyone had to provide for the family‚ this meant that they all shared the roles of a breadwinner. He suggested that pre-industrial family was essentially extended in order to function well. Families depended on extended members in order to live and work together because it would be the most efficient way to live. Working in agriculture was

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