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Now women are moving up through the work force with critical pace. The claim that “a woman’s job is solely to take care of the children”: claims that in the man’s eye, she is inferior to him. In the vital communication between partners, this is very dangerous statement. Similar to a man’s feeling of inferiority, women can grow spiteful. I still remember when I was in high school dating a silly 16 year old boy. Whenever we were in an argument, he would snap and say that I should just “shut up, and take up my job of making sandwiches and feeding kids.” Although he did not mean this literally, it was a jab at my equality in the relationship; a primitive reminder that I would be a “lesser” opinion in the relationship. In reality, I was a vibrant student who had better grades than him, and was even a grade level ahead of him after he failed twice. But because he knew his jab would work, it always affected me terribly. Often I would feel inferior and unworthy of speaking up. Of course, because of this stereotype and maybe some bigoted opinion on his side, we broke up. If the removal of these stereotypes is not addressed, they can heavily undermine any work in a