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Women's employment position alters with the increased inputs of information-intensive work even in traditional manufacturing. In the clothing industry, for example, computer-aided designing and cutting methods give rise to labour processes that are akin to those in the services sector (Cockburn 1985: chapter 2; Rosen, 1992). The use of information-intensive methods of production demands computer-literacy and some knowledge of programming. Access to relevant training in a given type of employment, in this situation, gives women and men skills that are transferable between industries and sectors.
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According to the 1978 survey, women, more often then men, had sexual intercourse not because they desired to have it, but to please their partner. While 49 percent of males would like to increase the frequency of sexual intercourse, this was true for only 25 percent of females, most of whom were satisfied with the frequency (56 percent against 43 percent for males). Thirteen percent of females - mostly in the higher age groups - desired to reduce the frequency of sexual intercourse as compared with 3 percent of males. These gender differences may be explained as the result of a greater pressure on males for sexual performance, but ... by the fact that more women found sex less enjoyable. Many of them in fact complained that before, during, and after sexual intercourse, men paid insufficient attention to their desires.
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Navy Women Navigators of WWII During World War II, many women became WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). The WAVES were part of the Navy and were similar to the WAFS/WASP in that they served their country during the war. The Navy had women officers as Air Navigation Instructors, some of whom received flight pay and wore wings. These women were sent for celestial navigation training to replace the men for combat or Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) duty. They were generally assigned in pairs to various bases around the country after satisfactory completion of training.
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Independent Women's Forum took place. It gathered more than 500 representatives of women's organizations and groups from Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and more than 80 participants and guests from Finland, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium and other countries. WIDM was ... presented at the forum..The forum gave an opportunity to bring the present women's movement to the level of social visibility without regard of political, religious and national differences. In 1993 the representatives of WIDM were invited to Strasbourg for participation in the work of section "Equality of Men and Women" of the European Council. In February 1994 WIDM took part in the
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The literacy rate for all socio-economic classes in Norfolk and Suffolk as late as 1580 was not more than twenty percent, and only eleven percent for women. The rate in London after 1580 may have been as high as forty percent for men and twenty-four percent for women.
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[O]ne finds that women had both conservative or traditional and nontraditional objectives in the 1870s. For even as women's literacy rate increased in absolute terms after unification, it declined slightly relative to men's literacy. Even as jobs in schools and telegraph offices opened to women of the middle and artisan classes, the same jobs, at higher pay rates with better working conditions, opened to men. In addition, some women actually lost status as Italian citizens. Women of Lombardy, Venetia, and Tuscany lost political rights and in some instances private authority previously exercised. In view of the hopes unification had spawned, and their stark contrast with post-Risorgimento reality, the patriot mother ideal, in all its forms, took on a double meaning.
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