The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia.[4][5] From equal status with men in ancient times[6] through the low points of the medieval period‚[7] to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers‚ the history of women in India has been eventful. In modern India‚ women have held high offices in India including that of the President‚ Prime Minister‚ Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Leader of the Opposition. As of 2011‚ the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and
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AMRITSAR: Women education and the resulting women empowerment was the major concern of the society at large. It was because educated women could play a significant role in the overall development and progress of the country ‚ this was observed by Ritu Aggarwal‚ Chairperson‚ Hospital Welfare Section‚ District Red Cross Society while talking to media persons here on Wednesday. District Red Cross Society provides free of cost sewing machines to help the widows to be self independent and training
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periods have made it clear that social movements and happenings have a great deal of importance in their work. Whether it is sculptures‚ paintings on walls in buildings like churches‚ or on canvas‚ the way that social movements and the ways in which society has changed their ways of looking at things‚ in particular women‚ have been depicted in artwork for centuries. In various forms of art throughout history‚ women are shown as sex symbols‚ weak‚ as servants to men and as housewives‚ men are depicted
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Student: Le Minh Phuong Vu Socio 1301 Instructor: Nguyen Tuan An Date: 15/07/2009 Midterm paper Vietnam Education Introduction: Viet Nam‚ a country with more than 80 million people‚ is a developing country which is in the process of transition from a centrally planned to a market economy and world economic integration. Besides common challenges facing developing countries‚ Viet Nam is facing with greater challenges‚ i.e. the need to accumulate for long-term development and industrialization
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Spartan women are the only women that lord over your men?” Gorgo‚ the Queen of Sparta and wife of Leonidas replied‚ “Because we are the only women who are the mothers of men”. This quote from Gorgo shows the great prowess not only of Spartan men but of Spartan women as well. Spartan women‚ along with Spartan men were bred to be the pinnacle of human performance and perfection. The armies and soldiers of Sparta are still revered as the best there ever has been. Often overlooked are the women of Sparta
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and other commodities to be traded at the immediate market value. They are only few and scarce that their value has soared recently. This is even worse around Ialibu area and some parts of Central Province. Some young girls can cost around K20 000. Women are used as the medium to achieve human prosperity. They facilitate for the channelling of wealth like pigs‚ shell money‚ pearls‚ food‚ modern money and other goods from one person or tribe to another. Poor families with many girls have the fate of
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CHAPTER I Introduction History is the science whose business is to study events not accessible to our observations‚ and to study these events inferentially (Philippine Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 1993). History is not merely the records of past events: it is the record of what one’s age find worthy of note in another. History as a narrative (which of written‚ visual‚ oral or a combination of all these) about past events that has a meaning to a certain group of people in a given time and
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CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 MEANING The classic definition of an Entrepreneur is “a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking‚ assuming the risk for the sake of the profit.” The word ’entrepreneur’ is derived from the Old French word ’entreprendre’ which was first used by the economic ’theorist’ Richard Cantillon in 1755 in an essay where he used this term to describe a person who assumed the risk of buying goods in the belief that they could sell them at a higher price at a
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of sixty. Women’s lives were similar in many parts of ancient Greece‚ but the Greeks themselves singled out the city state of Sparta as being greatly different. The women of Sparta were granted an equal stake in the success or failure of their state. With their fathers and husbands constantly away training or at war‚ the women of Sparta were responsible for all else in Spartan society. Individual families headed by a husband were insignificant in Spartan society. Instead‚ the state laid down
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claiming an education instead of being passive and simply receiving one. Rich takes an aggressive approach with her diction and advises people to change their mindset and be above average by being breaking old habits and stereotypes. Since she is a well known feminist‚ her essay is directed primarily towards women‚ but I feel that any person‚ male or female‚ could draw knowledge from her essay to claim an education. Rich makes it clear that to claim an education you must “take (your education) as the
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