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    promoted the idea of women assuming roles much greater than that of a caretaker. Nursing began to command for the higher education of women as nursing itself was highly driven to be a respected vocation, combining biomedical sciences and the innate caring and nurturing instincts within its nurses. This was not a passive process. It depended on innovators within, contributing to the education of nurses, and in turn, the education of women. As nursing was a profession consisting only of women, there was a

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    Women 's Lack Of Education

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    to stay at home and do household chores and to be attached with the agriculture. The lack of education today among women has made women depend their men for the livelihood. They are not self supportive because of their illiteracy. With the lack of education women are given less importance in society and decision making. They have no identity in all aspect of life and now they find difficult to comprehend along with the fast growing of the trend. As every tribe scattered in different districts, even

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    and see women as professors, as writers, as engineers. They would speak their mind and dress as they pleased and drive at night by themselves and live spontaneously. And then I’d go back to India, where women are expected to bear children to be “adequate,” and make sure to suppress their dreaming so as not to offend or intimidate their supposedly superior male counterparts. I watched my female cousins get married off at 16, and have six children – deprived of even hope for education. Women were never

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    century Career and Technical Education (CTE) was aimed towards the male population. The role of a woman was to be a home maker. Most households could not afford an education for the females in the home. Women who could afford to be educated were instructed in more artistic and moral subjects, to keep them busy and prepare them for being a respectable parent. As men were sent off to war, women began to play a bigger role outside of the home. The Civil War utilized women as government clerks and soon

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    survive? In the articles, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” and “Why Men Still Can’t Have It All,” Anne-Marie Slaughter and Richard Dorment, discuss how women function in the workplace and the different expectant outcomes for each, mainly focusing on the upper class. The primary objective of Slaughter’s passage was to show how women are treated poorly and how they are held to a different standard than their male counterparts. Dorment focused mostly on how neither women nor men should strive to “have

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    of Women Education in India Pradeep Kumar, Assistant Professor, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, kumar2pradeep@gmail.com ABSTRACT The real progress of any nation depends on the qualities and skills of its citizens and education is the key which develops capabilities of human to make a good member of society. Family is the unit of society is in which the mother develops the qualities of a child. Hence woman is called the first teacher of the child. It describes the importance of women education

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    Although women now have many more rights and freedoms than what they used to, it didn’t simply happen over night. Throughout the course of history men have always had a superior role to women in our society. White Men could own land, earn a wage, get an education, and state their political ideas much before women ever could. Women have earned their way closer to being equivalent to men by fighting for a higher position in law, receiving education, and advancing to wage labor in the work force.

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    The Gibson girl was the idea of perfect women in the early XX century until the First World War. The illustration had appeared in popular magazines, it not only had showed physical ideas, and it also had represented the behavior and the social status of the perfect American women in that time. Gibson girls had portrayed the “new woman” a women who was educated, taking advantage from the access that women obtained to have secondary and college education; a woman who had more independence. The Gibson

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    A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf Essay

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    essays and novels provide an insight into her life experiences and those of women of the 20th century. Her most famous works include Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando: A Biography (1928), The Waves (1931), and A Room of One's Own (1929) (Roseman 11). A Room of One's Own is an based on Woolf's lectures at a women's college at Cambridge University in 1928. Woolf bases her thoughts on "the question of women and fiction". In the essay, Woolf asks herself the question if a woman

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    countries or women are not offered an education entirely. The European Commission recently stated, “63% of women in developing countries overall are undereducated.” Women in underdeveloped countries deserve the right to access education to help enhance the country politically, economically, and socially. According to Anna Marie Gotez, allowing women access to education helps to develop knowledge and communication skills that can be beneficial in political debate. Economically, allowing women access to

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