This paper will utilize an empirical lens to examine the underrepresentation of women in leadership positions in higher education. In most of India’s higher education policy documents, it has been observed that gender was a negligent category of analysis. Realizing the significance of the issue, Sustainable Development Goals have included the issue of gender parity as one among seventeen goals by the policymakers (United Nations Development Programme, 2017). This paper will argue that while women in higher education leadership in...
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Women in Beowulf Beowulf is the longest and one of the most eminent works of Old English Literature. It is an epic poem that values heroism, chivalry, and loyalty. It centers around the male hero and his bravery. The main plot revolves around men (the lord &his warriors). Although it can be argued that women hold a prominent role in Beowulf due to their subtle or sometimes bigger influence on the events, but men are still the most vital, and...
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Since the 1980s, gender equality has been the main subject of discussion in the Greek law and policymaking. Nonetheless, it was the harmonisation of Greece’s legislation with the EU acquis that established gender equality within the labour market (Vaiou, 2014). Therefore, when gender equality in European work policies was prioritised, the Greek legal framework was reformed with the relevant legislation targeting primarily women who were balancing their working and family life, in the late 2000s. Under this legislation, Greek women...
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Introduction Since March 2020 my life has changed completely. Before the lockdown I was a very energetic and positive person. I was just completing my degree in Criminology, having time to see friends and family. However, during the lockdown and its restriction my life has changed dramatically. I had to finish all my assignments at home, while home-schooling three children and looking after the house. My husband is a critical key work and was away from home six days a...
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The sociological imagination is a tool that allows us to examine education inequality and its impacts on women in a way that provides an extensive and thorough understanding of the link between private struggles and broader social patterns. Using the sociological imagination enables sociologists to have the capacity to make the familiar unfamiliar and critically analyse how private struggles are impacted and influenced by broader social patterns. When applying the sociological imagination tool to the impact of unequal norms on...
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If you ask a women back in the day what words could they use to define a man most if not all would say they are physically strong human beings, hard working husbands, the providers of the family and of course well respected. In the story 'Brothers Before Hos': The Guy Code by Michael Kimmel, there's a standard that men appear to need to follow so as to be viewed as a solid, free genuine man that society affirms of,...
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African Americans and American women have been oppressed by the opinions and laws of white men since the drafting of the Constitution of the United States. African Americans and American women’s most prevalent contributions exist in literature and culture, most predominately in the works of Langston Hughe’s “I, Too,” Zora Neale Hurston’s, “How It Feels To Be Colored Me,” Bontemp’s, “A Black Man Talks of Reaping,” and Alice Walker’s, “In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens.” African Americans and American women...
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When most think of the American Revolution they assume it to about men, usually white men of elite status. They were after all the ones who lead the armies, fought the battles and came together in legislative assemblies to create a new government for the newley independent America free from the British crown. Only within the past century and half did the question arise about what did the American Revolution mean for women? After the development of social history in...
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Between the 1650s and the 1770s, the American colonies enjoyed an excellent economic period leading to excellent living standards but lacked freedom and liberty. With the imposition of Parliamentary taxes and more control of the British to the American colonies, politically inspired movements began to form within the colonies to oppose the British and fight for freedom. There were several key players to the American Revolutionary war who included Mercy Warren, Abigail Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin,...
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The Salem Witch Trials era during the late 1600s was a time where suspicion and the belief in the supernatural cultivated. To get an understanding of the Salem Witch Trials, one must first understand its origins. The Salem Witch Trials commenced around the early months of 1692 when a group of young residents in Salem Village, Massachusetts, professed to be possessed by the devil and accused a number of local women of witchcraft. To add on, in the course of...
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Throughout history, women have fought hard for equal rights, after centuries of oppression and discrimination. Women in the past did not have rights to an education, freedom of speech, to equal pay (Reference). To understand how feminism has changed from the 1960s to today, it is important to define what feminism is. “Feminism is a theory of how theorization of dominance and submission creates, gender, creates women and man in the social form in which we know”. To present, women...
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