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    husband goes to work. Women are the ones who were seen to cook, clean, and take care of everyone else. Did anyone ever wonder if women were truly happy being a housewife 24/7? That idea was one of the factors that lead for Betty Friedan to write “The Feminine Mystique”. The book was was published in 1963. She talks about how women were unsatisfied with their daily lives. In the book, she states, “Sometimes a woman would say "I feel empty somehow ... incomplete." Or she would say, "I feel as if I don't

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    Menstruation In America

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    This is a press release from Assemblymember Cristina Garcia that states that she has introduced a bill in order to make feminine hygiene products exempt from sales tax. She writes that this is being done in order to eliminate the “‘tampon tax’ and bring more gender equity to California’s tax code.” According to the release, “women in California pay over $20 million annually in taxes on tampons and sanitary napkins, paying on average seven dollars a month for forty years,” and Garcia writes that this

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    “The Importance of Work” is an essay from The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan. The whole essay talks about how humans can contribute to the society with their full capacities through work and that women should hold jobs equivalent to men. Friedan insists that men and women need work that satisfies their creativity and contributes to human society. Today, doing paid work is a necessity because it helps us get through the day wether for our needs or our pleasures. The money earned from work supports

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    SITUATION ANALYSIS Introduction Over the years, women have used different forms of feminine protection during their menstrual period such as menstrual aprons, knitted pads, and even rags. In the Philipppines, women used a cotton cloth called the pasadora. Eventually, the disposable pad was born, the first ones appearing to have been first commercially available from around 1895 through Curads and Hartmann's. Disposable pads started with nurses using their wood pulp bandages to catch their menstrual

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    Mothers, Male Authority, and Mental Health Both feminist writers, Betty Friedan and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, addressed life for the average woman. The writers showed the harsh realities that women in society faced not only as women, but as mothers which came with its own set of battles. As history has shown, women were expected to be the more emotional sex by nature, but it was displayed through both works that when these emotions come to the forefront to the women’s lives, manifested as mental

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    SELLING: 3403 PRE-CALL REPORT #1 PROPOSED SALE: (HILL QUEEN GULAB HERBAL UBTAN) Report by: Kiranpal Mann Student # c0645417 Date: 4th February 2016 Introduction The name of the product is “Gulab Herbal Ubtan” that shows that its main ingredients are Gulab (Rose) and Herbal Ubtan. Ubtan is very popular in India. The Kangra Hill Care & Cure Company recently launched a skin care product ‘Hill Queen Gulab Herbal Ubtan.’ The company is located in Kangra

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    In the books The Feminine Mystique and Feminist Theory: From Margin to Theory all focus on Feminism. Feminism is a work of movements; theories and ideas all aimed to define, establish equal rights for women. Feminism came in three different waves, 1. The Suffrage, 2) Woman’s liberation movement, and 3) was a continuation of the second wave and its accomplishments and failures. Both of the books focus on the second wave of feminism and take us on a journey on how woman, black and white, survived the

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    Disadvantages Of Tapons

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    that are found in landfills can’t also degrade and can cause carbon emissions. On the other hand, Tampons are controlled and manufactured by well-known companies such as Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson, which makes it economically stable. Feminine products, such as tampons, can increase up to the US $35.4 Billion in global sales. With this power, they can deceive the customers into thinking that their product is safe when it is not. 2. Desired outcomes: Briefly explain each of the following

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    friend, Mother Nature. Yes, that’s right - we’ve become so desperate to escape from the standards set by us from society that our periods have become our only excuse to relax and not have everything together. However, recent advertising from the feminine hygiene company Always Infinity is swiftly taking away our much needed break by implying women shouldn’t be taken less seriously just because of their crimson waves. Quite frankly, this isn’t the case and I’m tired of seeing this agenda being pushed

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    As you know many things have changed since the 1960s and 1970s. For instance, women’s rights. Women rights have come a long way in education, work, family life, politics, and sports. But I am writing to remind you the importance in women’s work force. Women have always in a general manner…been under appreciated. It seemed however that sometimes needs made men realize or potential. You see during world war 2, nearly all women worked…this was directly related to the fact that men where away at war

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