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    Farghona (200‚000)‚ and Quqon (182‚000).The population of Uzbekistan is exceedingly young. In the early 1990s‚ about half the population was under nineteen years of age. Experts expected this demographic trend to continue for some time because Uzbekistan’s population growth rate has been quite high for the past century: on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union‚ only Tajikistan had a higher growth rate among the Soviet republics. Between 1897 and 1991‚ the population of the region that is now Uzbekistan

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    The Role of Women in Trifles and The Jewelry In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles‚ written around 1915‚ the role of women is superior to the men’s role and in Guy de Maupassant’s story‚ The Jewelry‚ the woman has an inferior role‚ and in the end‚ we find out that she was not a faithful wife. As the two stories are set at the turn of the twentieth century‚ the readers come to believe that women were not treated with much respect or thought to be intelligent; they were merely there to make children and

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    hinders women in the struggle for material change in their lives. Others believe that there is a spiritual as well as a material aspect to life‚ and seek alternatives to male-defined religions in goddess worship and other forms of woman centered theology. Still others‚ while recognizing the patriarchal bias of Christianity‚ Judaism and Islam‚ believe that there are spiritual truths in these religions which cannot be denied‚ and feel that it is therefore necessary to work for reform from within‚ rather

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    The cultural role of women in the Odyssey In Homer’s Odyssey the cultural relevance of a preferred woman’s role in society generally stands out in the roles of the female characters of Athena and Penelope simultaneously rejecting the negatively viewed characteristics of Calypso and Circe. The entire structure of Ancient Greek culture boasts its men in more superior roles than that of women. Greek society was largely built upon an idea that good women were only around to faithfully serve and support

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    Role of women in Odyssey Homer wrote the Odyssey in 8th century and it is a Greek epic poem. The story background begins ten years after the Trojan War. After the war‚ Odyssey tried to go back to his home‚ but he had a lot of hardships. During that time‚ many people helped him‚ but not all of characters. There are various important characters and each of them has different personalities and roles. In 21 century‚ most of women play a big role. What about in 8th century? According to the book Odyssey

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    Women in Puritan society were strictly confined to traditional roles within their family and community structures. They were solely relegated to serve their husband and their household. These circumstances were made apparent in the journal of John Winthrop as well as the letters between him and his wife. The statements made in John Winthrop’s journal regarding Anne Hutchinson are descriptive of the restricted roles of women in the commonwealth. The way in which Margaret speaks to her husband

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    ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE POLITICS OF PAKISTAN How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! INTRODUCTION: The battle of the sexes is as old as the hills. Since Stone Age‚ even before than that women are considered as weaker sex; therefore they should be subjugated to men. They should work for the betterment of the men folk in their family. In patriarchal societies‚ women are conditioned to accept men as the superior sex. In this regard‚ I have made a couplet:

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    ROLE OF WOMEN: It is true that the worth of a civilization can be measured by the place that it gives to women in the society. It is also true that where women are honored‚ there gods live. Indian Women in the past enjoyed an exalted position in the society. They  excelled in various spheres of life and enjoyed every kind of liberty to develop themselves‚ socially‚ morally and intellectually. However‚ the position did not remain the same for long. During Muslim and British rule‚ her position was

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    construction of cruelty helps explain the female role perpetrators. By examining the situations where women are placed and immersed in it explains the roles and actions that they choose to take. In considering the role of gender for perpetrators I personally feel that the role of women in a genocide is vastly underestimated. I think that society has a stereotype for looking at women as unable to be perpetrators of genocide‚ nor do I believe that women do not hold the structure and store in society.

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    Women’s role prior to World War I Prior to the First World War women’s role in society in western countries was generally confined to the domestic sphere (but not necessarily their own home) and to certain types of jobs: ’Women’s Work’. In Great Britain for example‚ just before World War I‚ out of an adult population of about 24 million women‚ around 1.7 million worked in domestic service‚ 800‚000 worked in the textile manufacturing industry‚ 600‚000 worked in the clothing trades‚ 500‚000 worked

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