Role Women Played In Society

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in the West, it is the bride's family that bears the costs of the wedding.
Tacitus often compares Germania to Rome where the glories of the past were settling into an era of decadence. He sees his beloved Rome in an unfavorable light. Tacitus was severely criticized by those who wished to uphold Rome's stature; his findings were dismissed as an ethnographer's "love" for his subjects.
In their recent paper, "Gender, ethics and empowerment: Dilemmas of development fieldwork," Regina Scheyvens and Helen Leslie raise some of the notions of treating research subjects objectively. An added burden to researching other cultures is gender inequity. Related to the study of women in Third World Countries, the authors raise several important points: Is there, or should there (or not) be a power distinction between the researchers and their subjects? Can the work be regarded as legitimate because of the vast differences in cultural perceptions? Certain ethical questions also crop up: Can ...

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objectively consider it a part of the routine of days work akin to a western woman getting into her car and commuting to her job at an office? Would such factual report be misrepresented and misconstrued as the suffering of women in the third world? The authors want researchers to be aware of such potentially misleading practices.
The authors report that very often in this power gradient between the researchers and the women researched, women, often hesitant to speak out about themselves, will often seek the permission of men in the household. This can be construed as the subjugation of women in a knee-jerk reaction to an observation. In reality though, the women might be shy ...

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