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According to the author, Registering with selective service is an important but onerous civic duty from which women have historically been excluded in the United States. Affirmative action” means positive steps taken to increase the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment, education, and culture from which they have been historically excluded.
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Some ideas:
-beads were a thing they did because of religion
-beads signified power or importance or wisdom
-beads of a certain colour/shape/size might mean certain things, e. g. 'I have children' or I am a woman/man'(there might be different beads from different genders/types of people)
-they cared about how they looked
-they had festivals where they got dressed up
They produced different materials and crops.