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The perception of women at home and in the workplace.

Historically, men have reported, passed on, and manufactured a distinct enterprisingly outstanding biography of their longevity. For women the past is dead air. The absenteeism and non appearance of women’s lives in literature is evidence of the ideology of days gone by. Society perceived women as contributing nothing of value. This belief legitimised male self progress and dominant supremacy while on the other end of the spectrum women were unaffirmative.
A century ago, a dehumanising statement about women by Darwin and his followers was that women were biologically and intellectually inferior because their brains were less developed than a man's. In The Descent of Man in Relation to Sex, Darwin wrote:
[Man] attains a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can women--whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands. If two lists were made of the most eminent men and women in poetry, history, painting, sculpture, music (incl...

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