Women in ancient India were held in high respect. With the course of time‚ the status of woman got lowered. Muscle and money power started dominating the societies. And as men fought the wars and ran the ventures of industrial production‚ they started considering themselves superior to woman. After the development of science and technology‚ the practice of female foeticide on a large scale also started. This eventually led to a slump in the female sex ratio. According to the census of 2001
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Against women reservation. Indian women have been politically empowered (in law) since 26th January 1950. But economic and social empowerment has been elusive. Laws and regulations — sometimes introduced with the intention to protect them — have only led to their economic marginalisation. If reservation in parliament is the only way out for upliftment of women‚ the question is why then limit it to only 33 percent. honestly‚ why do we need quota to showcase equality when men and women are born
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Middleton’s Women Beware Women is a Jacobean tragedy‚ which has a complex plot and deals with corrupted characters. This tragedy is about corruption in the court and life in general‚ love by money and how women can lead other women to destruction. As Tricomi states about the characters‚ they ‘are not wholly the product of their circumstances‚ but their circumstances condition their choices and propel them toward their destiny’.[1] Middleton‚ as other Jacobean playwrights before him‚ has managed to
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Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata provides the audience with a comedic relief to one of the more pervading themes of war and peace‚ while also highlighting the empowerment of women. The setting of this play takes place during a time when war was customary and fighting between countrymen was familiar. Aristophanes wrote the play during the Peloponnesian War when Athens and Sparta were engaging in continuous battles that weakened supplies and destroyed cities. Athens unfortunately was suffering a great
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are severely limited in their portrayals of self empowerment because of monopoly of music by males Subargument #2: Amateur female musicians are further limited by social boundaries that occur in music Jazz Article 1 (Willis) | E/DM 2 | Saturday night fever 3 | Bass article – Clawson 4 | * Women instrumentalists are deliberately avoided/removed in the hegemonic jazz discourse to preserve the construction of jazz as a masculine space. * Women can only perform aspects of identities that are
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Women in the Early Nineteenth Century vs. Women in The Awakening There are many different types of women portrayed in The Awakening. The goal of this paper is to compare and contrast the women in the book to the women during the turn of the nineteenth century and the society’s reaction to the novel.. The novel shows the social constraints of women in the Victorian era. During this time‚ women were supposed to be docile‚ domestic creatures‚ whose main concerns in life were to be the raising of their
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MENTORING: A TOOL FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND EMPLOYMENT GENERATION. BY YEMISI COKER INTRODUCTION: The world they say is “sitting on a social and economic time bomb”. It is plagued by a cancer that would soon be incurable. This is a result of the rising rate of youth unemployment. Statistics show that there are 1.2 billion youth in the world aged 15 – 24. Global unemployment rate as at 2012 was projected at 12.7%.In Africa‚ youth unemployment has become a threat to socio-economic peace
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children (Women‚ 2016). The life of a woman was basically childhood‚ marriage‚ family‚ and death. Women never became artists or scholars. Men typically lived until the age of 45‚ and women to 36. Men were often 20 years older than their wife‚ therefore many women survived their husband and remarried. In this case‚ her new husband would gain her inheritance. The only crucial public role of women was to give birth to young citizens‚ more importantly males to be citizens and females to reproduce further
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WATER COOPERATION –ISSUES AND CHALLENGES 1. Introduction Population growth and higher living standards will cause ever increasing demands for good quality municipal and industrial water‚ and ever increasing sewage flows. At the same time‚ more and more irrigation water will be needed to meet increasing demands for food for growing populations. This will require intensive management and international cooperation. Since almost all liquid fresh water on the planet occurs underground‚ groundwater will
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Actor (2011). This hybrid genre has attracted numerous feminist critics due to its focus on women which have always played a key role in the narrative; women are also predominately the main characters and the films of this genre are targeted at a female audience with rare variations through time. The portrayal of women in romantic comedies has been influenced by feminist movements such as the Liberation of women also known as the decade of sexual liberation which influenced for example Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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