Japan, in its less progressive days, was such a place and time when a woman 's heart was made for breaking.

日本在它比较落后的年代就提供了这样一个场景，那个时候，女人的心是被伤害的对象。

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The participants, 21 heterosexual male undergraduates at Princeton, took questionnaires to determine whether they harbor "benevolent" sexism, which includes the belief that a woman's place is in the home, or hostile sexism, a more adversarial viewpoint which includes the belief that women attempt to dominate men.

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Without countless such confrontations -- large and small -- over "a woman's place" throughout our history, the ranks of women in executive suites, the U.S. Congress, courtrooms, surgical theaters, the military, and many other places in society would still be close to zero, and the idea of a female president would be as alien as a creature from Mars.

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And in the 1970s and 1980s, conservative women invoked patriotic motherhood to argue against the equal rights amendment, saying it would unhinge the structure of the family and a woman's privileged place (their argument) in American society.

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