Latin American Gender Equality Analysis

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This article looks at Latin American paradoxes in the western concept of gender equality by the virtual symbolism or gender identification. The author examines transcultural contacts by studying genders in Latin America. Nanneke also describes early research among status of women, subordination, and patriarchy which go on to other forms such as Class and sexual orientation. This article examines global and local modernism resources from the past and present. She also finds that “spiritual beliefs provide a system of importance through which social order is experience, communicated, and reproduce a cohesive and persistent idea logical system”. The hidden history of women's productive and administrative experience within particular structures

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