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    American Women 1920-1960

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    Throughout history‚ society has classified women and their roles and potential within a given society. There have been reasons in the past for this fact‚ which have included religious oppression and portraying of their role. The initial idea of a women’s place being in the home taking care of the children and looking after the home‚ this is still common in today’s society. Women now have a new found ability to fulfill their dreams and have achieved an independence that few would have perceived

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    Roles Women Play In Advertisements Since the commonly known creation Bible story of Adam and Eve‚ women have been viewed subsidiary to men; society has formed a bias that females cannot perform jobs equivalent to or of the same value as men. The model in Figure 1 is extremely feminine‚ for example: her nails are painted‚ she is wearing multiple rings on her fingers as she holds a light grip on the steering wheel‚ Since the commonly known creation Bible story of Adam and Eve‚ women have been

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    Women in comics‚ come on and show more of Their bodies in them such as cleavage they sexually reveal themselves more sexually than men do . You could argue that men wear tight clothes that show off their muscles and show off their ABS‚ but men in comics don’t show themselves off as sexually as girls do. for example Emma Frost in every chapter or book that X-men makes her always having her cleavage and body showing like she’s in her Underwear. You could argue in comics that men are portrayed just

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    1). Throughout the years women was treated differently in society even up to this day. We have accomplished so much in women’s and equal rights. Back then women were known as the “housewives” who stayed at home taking care of children and cleaning the house‚ while the husbands go to work and provide for their family. Today women work just as much as men‚ but we still don’t get paid the same amount than men does sometimes. Also teenagers today‚ do work or at least try and help out their families‚

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    will turn the other way‚ walk across the street‚ or ignore homeless men and women on the street. These people living on the street are stereotyped as being lazy‚ or unwilling‚ to seek employment or housing. In an article on usatoday.com‚ a man named Gunther stern (who is the executive director of the Georgetown ministry) walks along banks and greenbelts greeting homeless men and women by first name. Many of those men and women are suffering from mental illnesses‚ some of which include personality disorder

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    Both men and women from all over the world play sports. However‚ many of the women play as a hobby‚ but not as a profession. Women’s sports aren’t as popular as men’s sports‚ due to the lack of attention from the media as well as the few product endorsements and the negative idea that not all sports should be played by women. Society does not have high enough expectations for women athletes‚ which is why women athletes don’t receive the same amount of opportunities or have the same image as male

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    Stereotypes Against Women

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    is the idea that the Church is against women. While it is true that only men can become priests‚ women have special roles of their very own. There was a reason for Jesus selecting only men to be his apostles‚ and although some may consider the that being continued today to be archaic‚ it is actually a continued tradition with good reason. It can be difficult for women who feel they are called to be a leader of a parish. In other some other religions‚ women are allowed to be pastors‚ but in the Catholic

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    Throughout history women have always been stereotyped as weak. Society has labeled them as being housewives and servants for men; they had no freedom and lived under the shadows of their husbands. Although being prejudiced by society and men‚ women were finally brave enough to stand up for their rights in 1848 at the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls‚ despise their emotional issues and traditional ways of history. Kate Chopin’s Story of an Hour and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow

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    In the book Little women‚ Meg is at first intimidated by the Moffats‚ who are wealthy and fashionable. But they are also nice to her‚ and she adapts quickly to their lifestyle of leisure. This scene makes it clear that the girls at the Moffat’s house are actually kind people who feel empathy towards Meg because of her family’s financial situation. This is observed when Meg arrives at the Moffat house and the narrator states‚ “But they were kindly people‚ in spite of the frivolous life they led‚ and

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    who wonders whether her kids will enjoy life the way she had growing up in Vancouver. With the two red-hot housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver‚ this shows how today’s young population has it harder than the older generations.   Generation X (1960s-1980s) is the real loser when it comes to average salary‚ the average hourly pay was $24‚ adjusted for inflation. The average hourly pay in 2016 was $27.70‚ according to Statistics Canada. Between 1981 and 2017 the average wages especially for young

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