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    Modern Dating

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    Pros of modern dating: 1: Fast and straight to point 2: easy entry‚ easy exit 3: equality 4: You can have her sleep over at your place anytime any day 5: Sampling knows no boundary 6: Can have issues even before tying the knot. Add more if you have any Cons: 1: Infidelity is likely to be rampant here 2: Deceits too 3: Contracting of deadly disease is also possible 4: Unwanted pregnancy is a likelihood 5: Dumping very common 6: Over familiarity thereby killing the zeal to get married

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    Early Marriage

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    Early Marriage >>Child marriage and child betrothal customs occur in various times and places‚ whereby children are given in matrimony - before marriageable ageas defined by the commentator and often before puberty. Today such customs are fairly widespread in parts of Africa‚ Asia‚ Oceania and South America: in former times it occurred also in Europe. It is frequently associated with arranged marriage. In some cases only one marriage-partner is a child‚ usually the female‚ due to importance placed

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    BOYS VS. GIRLS: THE GENDER ROLES By: Samantha Samsel   Boys Vs. Girls: The Gender Roles “Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it’s okay to be a boy; for girls it’s like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading‚ according to you‚ because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.” (McEwan‚1978)‚ Gender roles are the roles that each gender gets that shows people how they are supposed to act. Gender roles have been planted in

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    Gender

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    Gender is a range of characteristics of femininity and masculinity.[1] Depending on the context‚ the term may refer to such concepts as sex (i.e. the state of being male or female)‚ social roles (as in gender roles) or gender identity. Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work‚ it was uncommon to use the word "gender" to refer to anything but grammatical categories.[2][3] However‚ Money’s meaning of the word

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    Chinese Women: Becoming Half the Sky? ---An Analysis of Modern Feminism in China On November 7th‚ 2013‚ in order to promote a feminist student group’s upcoming campus performance of The Vagina Monologues‚ U.S. playwright Eve Ensler’s controversial play (Jaffe 2013)‚ 17 female students at the Beijing Foreign Studies University posted online photos of themselves holding up messages of “What My Vagina Says: …”. However‚ they probably didn’t expect to cause such a stir on Chinese social media. While

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    Early Marriage

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    Early marriage is the marriage of children and adolescents below the age of 18. Causes: According to UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre‚ the "practice of marrying girls at a young age is most common in Sub-Saharan African and South Asia". There are specific parts of West Africa and East Africa and of South Asia where marriages before puberty are not unusual. However‚ the Centre also notes that marriage shortly after puberty is common among those living traditional lifestyles in the Middle East

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    STUDY Marriage before the age of 18 is a reality for many young women. In many parts of the world parents encourage the marriage of their daughters while they are still children in hopes that the marriage will benefit them both financially and socially‚ while also relieving financial burdens on the family. In actuality‚ child marriage is a violation of human rights‚ com-promising the development of girls and often resulting in early pregnancy and social isolation‚ with little education and poor vocational

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    The oppression of women as women PHIL 202 – Assignment 1 26/01/2012 The patriarchal society in which we live has systematically oppressed women for centuries. It is not until extremely recent history‚ with the Women’s Liberation Movement‚ that women have been able to take meaningful strides towards a more equal and just society. We have come a long way since that time‚ women can now vote‚ work‚ practice politics and live independently of men: it seems as though we have come very close to the

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    Early Colonial Women and Religious Education; A Double Edged Sword A double standard is defined as “a set of principles that allows greater freedom to one person or group than another” when looked up in the dictionary. For Puritan and Colonial women a double standard was defined as a way of life. Women at the time were not supposed to have an extensive knowledge of the Bible‚ as they were not viewed to be intelligent enough to understand it. On the other side‚ Puritan mothers were expected to

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    Gender Inequality The issue of gender inequality is one which has been publicly reverberating through society for decades. The problem of inequality in employment being one of the most pressing issues today. In order to examine this situation one must try to get to the root of the problem and must understand the sociological factors that cause women to have a much more difficult time getting the same benefits‚ wages‚ and job opportunities as their male counterparts. The society in which we live

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