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Women in the Coal Mines Vs. Women in the Workplace: How Far We've Come

The view of women in work has changed so much in the past 150 years. They have gone from being strictly homemakers to working in the atrocities of the coal pits, all the way up to becoming the CEOs of major corporations. This is not to say that women no longer need to fight sexism in the workplace, for it is not a problem that has ended completely. However, conditions have beome millions of times better. What I will present in this paper is the far the quality of work for women has come, as well as the broadening views of the world on women.

Since the time when the (Polytheistic) religions of Mother Godesses from image-based religions fell under the power (Single God) of the masculine, Male-worshipping word-based religions, women have been viewed as lessers. As such, women were called weak, unable to handle physical labor and the like. Because of this, women were given the roles of homemaker, cook, nanny, and sometimes nurse. Men and Women alike believed that women could no...

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