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    decoration and family finance. Many women applied for jobs, and did not care what society thought. Society had strong thoughts to share though, and working women received plenty of criticism. They were putting time into their work and spending less time at home. Many critics said this wrecked the relationship between a parent and her child. Over all, the working woman faced many difficulties in the 1950s. Today, life is different, yet it is easy to see that some values we share today are still in place from

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    The working woman, immoral, unfeminine and objects of petty, negligentful mothers (Jones, 2006). Women not treated as equal, treated as if they were a joke, not serious workers like their male counterpart. Family responsibilities of cooking, cleaning, and making babies may be in the distant future but the mark it leaves carries into the next generation. Equal rights, driving, voting, education and holding jobs are some of the steps forward the twentieth century bring, but not without the heartache

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    A woman named Maddison enjoyed working so much that she loved it. She was only in her twenties and had decided to dedicate her life to working and pleasing others. She had a job that she loved and worked as hard as she could to better herself at her job. As time continued, Maddison soon started realizing that she made less money than the men were making. They held the same positions but she got paid less. She tried for many years to become the assistant manager and even the manager, but they promoted

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    In this paper I will be investigate about how African American woman was working hard to become successful in the elegance of the society in the 1880s and years beyond that. Being African American woman who is demanding to profitable to Nursing profession is a story of colored women fighting to overcome racial, social and economic injustice. In 1879s there was institutions, policy that only one African American students and one Jewish students could be enrolled in each training class at a time. Nevertheless

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    Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas March 26, 1930. She lived a pioneer like life on a ranch called The Lazy B in Arizona with her parents. This helped her grow an independent spirit of a hard working woman. As she grew up, her family could see her potential and her intelligence. They encouraged her to be well educated and sent her off to live with her grandmother to get an adequate education. O’Connor later attended Stanford University, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in

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    Introduction Aashirya is a charismatic and energetic 58-year Indian woman working in the local beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan when we met. She is a dedicated Hindu and a widow who began working for the Army and Air Force Exchange Services (AAFES) after her husband died. She is the mother of two sons and eight grandchildren all living in El Paso Texas. Her sons who were both in the Army were the reason she became a member of the AAFES staff. Aashirya’s family was her number one priority. She

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    The ideal woman in the 19th century was unproductive and supported a “male literary enterprise” (Harvey 1). The same idealistic woman was found outside the market economy in the domestic space of a home, either as a wife or worker. If a woman did find work outside the rigidly defined domestic space, she was regarded as an anomaly or amateur, and was thus, undesirable (Harvey 2). It is this bit of information which describes much of the work of women in the 19th and early 20th century. Women in the

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    construction business like this and why aren’t there more woman working in this field. Despite not budging for near a decade woman are starting to make headway but are running into substantial barriers. For lack of a better terms the main reason for these problems come down to discrimination and sexism. In a report from the Washington Post; nine in ten women will experience sexual harassment while working on the job. This must be solved before woman can enter this profession comfortably and thrive in

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    To the question “Why the Woman Rebel?” Sanger wrote “Because I believe that deep down in woman’s nature lies slumbering the spirit of revolt” and “Because I believe that through the efforts of individual revolution will woman’s freedom emerge”. Both highlight how birth control was

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    Barbara Ehrenreich would make a bad representative of the working poor because she lacks three major things that a woman of that class would actually possess. Ehrenreich doesn't meet the true qualifications of a working class woman: she lacks the background, she lacks respect of the money she earns, and she lacks certain personal or social qualities that ordinarily are possessed by the working poor. Ehrenreich is part of the upper-middle class; she is "privileged" to have a job in which she

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