[PDF] The Changing Role Of Women eBook

Author : Louise Spilsbury
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Women
ISBN : 9780431116228

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Titles in this series help students to develop the skills they need to research history topics successfully. Each title shows students how to evaluate, organize and use information and primary sources. How to cite sources and plagiarism are also covered.

Author : Meredith Borthwick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400843901

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Basing her work on Bengali-language sources, such as women's journals, private papers, biographies, and autobiographies, Meredith Borthwick approaches the lives of women in nineteenth-century Bengal from a new standpoint. She moves beyond the record of the heated debates held by men of this period—over matters such as widow burning, child marriage, and female education—to explore the effects of changes in society on the lives of women and to question assumptions about "advances" prompted by British rule. Focusing on the wives, mothers, and daughters of the English-educated Bengali professional class, Dr. Borthwick contends that many reforms merely substituted a restrictive British definition of womanhood for traditional Hindu norms. The positive gains for women—increased physical freedom, the acquisition of literacy, and limited entry to nondomestic work—often brought unforeseen negative consequences, such as a reduction in autonomy and power in the household. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Heather Eggins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319424347

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This book sets out to examine the changing role of women in higher education with an emphasis on academic and leadership issues. The scope of the book is international, with a wide range of contributors, whose expertise spans sociology, social science, economics, politics, public policy and linguistic studies, all of whom have a major interest in global education. The volume examines the ways in which the leadership role and academic roles of women in higher education are changing in the twenty first century, offering an up-to-date policy discussion of this area. It is in some sense a sequel to the earlier volume by the same Editor, Women as Leaders and Managers in Higher Education, but with very different emphases. The pressures now are to respond to the demands of the technological age and to those of the global economy. Today there are more highly qualified and experienced female academics, and more expectation of their gaining the highest posts. Challenges still remain, particularly in terms of the top posts, and in equal pay. The discussion of global policy issues affecting the role of women in higher education is combined with country case studies, several of which are comparative. Together they examine and unpack the particular situations of women in a wide range of higher education systems, from Brazil to the US to Europe to Africa and the Far East, noting the shift towards more flexibility, more personal choice and a greater acceptance by society of their abilities. This volume is a useful and influential addition to published work in this area, and is aimed at the intelligent general reader as well as the scholar interested in this topic.

Author : Paula Bartley
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Families
ISBN : 9780340611357

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This title discusses the way the roles of women are changing in twentieth-century society. It provides an overview of women's lives during a period of great economic, social and political change. Synthesizing much recent research, the book examines marriage, home and family, education and work.

Author : Mandy Ross
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781588106605

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Examines the changing role of women throughout the twentieth century in the areas of politics, human rights, education, domestic life, work, health care, the arts, fashion, and sports.

Author : Gail Collins
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316071666

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Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People). When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card. It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential campaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after four hundred years, expectations about the lives of American women were smashed in just a generation. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research--covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, and work--When Everything Changed is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress. The enormous strides made since 1960 include the advent of the birth control pill, the end of "Help Wanted--Male" and "Help Wanted--Female" ads, and the lifting of quotas for women in admission to medical and law schools. Gail Collins describes what has happened in every realm of women's lives, partly through the testimonies of both those who made history and those who simply made their way. Picking up where her highly lauded book America's Women left off, When Everything Changed is a dynamic story, told with the down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free tone for which this beloved New York Times columnist is known. Older readers, men and women alike, will be startled as they are reminded of what their lives once were--"Father Knows Best" and "My Little Margie" on TV; daily weigh-ins for stewardesses; few female professors; no women in the Boston marathon, in combat zones, or in the police department. Younger readers will see their history in a rich new way. It has been an era packed with drama and dreams--some dashed and others realized beyond anyone's imagining.

Author : Louise Spilsbury
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781432934965

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Presents an introduction to the changing role of women, discussing how to research basic facts, find a topic, evaluate sources, use tangible evidence, and write a presentation.