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21Women — The history of women in contemporary Italy can be defined as the glacial acquisition of basic political and economic rights. Even more than most Western nations, Italy has been highly resistant to giving women formal legal and political… …
22WOMEN — There is documentary, visual, and archaeological evidence for the role women played in Mesopotamian society through the ages. In many early textual sources, however, the gender of persons mentioned is not always clear. It appears that in the… …
23Women — The position and status of women varies from group to group, and, to a large extent, their status is determined by the social organization of the group in question. Based on national statistics, one can deduce that women make up more than half …
24Women — Like most traditional and Islamic societies, men are given certain rights and responsibilities in Kurdish society that are denied to women. Given the differences dictated by biology, men are supposed to govern, fight, and support their… …
25women — The social position of women has undergone a remarkable change in post Franco Spain. Women hold public office as judges, ambassadors, mayors, government ministers, and university rectors, as well as obtaining jobs in sectors from which they… …
26Women — The place of women in society was not brought into focus until the movement for women’s liberation and suffrage in the sec ond half of the 19th century. Radical liberals and socialists were ac tive in formulating the demand for emancipation.… …
27WOMEN — Westerns traditionally have been stories of men struggling against the forces of the frontier. Women’s roles in these stories have usually been secondary at best. Symbolically, however, women have played a major role. While the frontier is a… …
28Women — Both as individuals and in groups, women played important parts in the events described in this volume. To be sure, conservative women often collaborated with the military. In Brazil and Chile, for example, women’s groups led demonstrations… …
29Women — The Women The Women ou Femmes au Québec est une comédie américaine écrite et réalisée par Diane English, sortie en 2008 aux États Unis et en 2009 en France. Le scénario est une version actualisée de Femmes de George Cukor, datant de 1939 et lui… …
30Women — Woman Wom an, n.; pl. {Women}. [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. w[=i]fmann, w[=i]mmann; w[=i]f woman, wife + mann a man. See {Wife}, and {Man}.] [1913 Webster] 1. An adult female person; a grown up female person, as distinguished… …
