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31467
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Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build now reaches across the globe, but the first home is still in Charlotte, and the first owner still lives there.
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27416
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Vicki Ismail, a Raleigh restauranteur hopes to empower the disadvantaged with Carroll’s Kitchen. The new nonprofit will provide jobs and skills to women in need, and the people behind it hope to spark a movement.
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878
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Many of North Carolina's working women earn wages that keep them at poverty level, hold jobs that offer no room for advancement, and earn less than men for equal work. The consequences of this status quo reach far beyond the women themselves to affect the entire state.
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4414
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For women, opportunities beyond the home were limited in 1900 to such jobs as seamstress, teacher, or store clerk. After marriage most women could look forward to a life of keeping house and raising their families. This could be a challenge since they lacked the modern household conveniences of today. Washing clothes could be an all day job, for example. In 1900, women were starting a century that would dramatically transform their lives.
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35976
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Figures in early mountain literature were heavily stereotyped. Some examples exist, however, of realistic women, especially in more recent times.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 42 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1995,
p91-104
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