Recently, women have begun to see changes in their role in society. Although girls and women are starting to receive messages about being strong, independent women, too often they are also still receiving messages indicating women should be fragile and domestic. In an article titled “Leader stereotypes match men more than women,” Catherine Kleiman quotes Alice Eagly, a psychology professor at Northwestern University who says that “it's bound to be challenging for women because there's …showed first 75 words of 963 total…

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