Fostering Gender Equality in College and Professional Sports
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Professional and college sports have created a huge pay gap between male and female players. Despite their spectacular performance in their various fields, the women players are less recognized, and this makes them receive little or no financial compensation (Scarola 3). The underpayment or...
Role of education in gender equality: stereotyping
Presentation - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Today, I would like to present you the emergence of the patriarchal social structure started approximately 12 000 years ago when ancient civilizations became agricultural societies. The structural aspect of societies led to an increase of power and professional skills among men that directly...
Role of Education in Gender Equality: Stereotyping - published: 04/11/2023
Presentation - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This document is a guide summarizing the main concepts to be covered in a 15-minute presentation on the role of education in gender equality.
Gender equality: Women and the law
Thesis - 5 pages - Civil law
The United States, among many other Western countries, has been a beacon for women's rights. Many women in the world cannot teach, work, show their ankles, vote, hold public office and sometimes are not allowed to think much less. Here in the United States, women have the opportunity to do all...
New ways of promoting gender equality
Thesis - 14 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This paper provides an overview of gender inequality comparing Europe and North America through media perspectives and company front runners within each region. It will provide an analysis of the methods used by companies and how actions are successfully carried out. As well it will...
Gender equality and employment in the European Union
Essay - 29 pages - European union
Gender equality is among the fundamental principles and the common values of the European Union. In the 2nd Article of the Treaty of the European Community, it is even mentioned as a “task” to perform for the Community, and again in Article 3(2) TEC. But two questions...
An American woman's journey in Brazil: Gender in inequality in education
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Historians are given a unique task; to gather information from a plethora of sources with a discernable eye, assess the credibility, corroborate and establish an accurate relay of events at any given period throughout the world. Here, the documentation and accounts of a woman traveler will be...
Literary Representations of Gender Issues
Course material - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Gender stereotypes and social expectations have persisted throughout history, and they may be seen in literature as both a reflection and a consequence of prevailing societal norms. This paper explores literary representations of gender problems, starting with naturalism and...
Gender Dynamics in Everyday Spaces: An Analysis of Drexel Campus and Popular Media
Case study - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Gender dynamics are a critical factor defining how we accord importance and interact within different spheres, like the Drexel campus and magazine and music media representations. This article discusses the presence of gendered space on the Drexel campus and reveals the ways the media...
How do different media portray gender?
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Gender bias has been a significant challenge in society for decades. It describes the unjust treatment or prejudice directed towards specific people or groups because of their gender (Llorens et al., 2021). Today's media greatly influences societal norms and perceptions...
Violence from a gender perspective and feminist perspectives in peacebuilding and conflict resolution
Case study - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
There are 2 cases and concepts discussed in this document : a. Define and discuss the concept of the continuum of violence and illustrate how it is relevant in understanding violence from a gender perspective. Use an example of your choice. b. Present and discuss at least three major...
The Right to Equal Pay
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The Right to Equal Pay is a civil liberty set out to protect every employee from unequal pay based on gender bias in comparison to fellow employees. According to the Women's Bureau, the right provides that all individuals ought to enjoy equal employment opportunities and better yet a...
Islamophobia, Gender and Migration
Presentation - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This presentation is about Islamophobia, Gender & Migration. While Islamophobia can be thought of as the fear of those who are Muslims or assumed to be Muslims, this discrimination and fear have increased and often been justified since the events of 9/11. Migration, another aspect of my...
Harmonization of gender based violence messages for use in IEC materials
Essay - 12 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Gender-based violence is a global pandemic and human rights violation that hinders both individual and societal development. Furthermore, the prevailing socioeconomic and political inequalities between the sexes ensure that women and girls are most susceptible to violence. Global surveys...
Gender inequality and work/life balance
Summary - 1 pages - Labor law
Individuals spend most of their time in the workplace; therefore an appropriate legal framework should be put in place to protect their rights but also quality of life, regardless of their sex. In this report, women's rights in the workplace will be tackled first, then the balance between...
Islamic Women: Between Equality and Discrimination
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
The beginning of the Earth and mankind is certainly a story for people to know for it counters all the philosophies and religions of today and it is the foundation of all Christian, Judaic and Islamic teachings. According to most stories, Adam's problems start with the creation of Eve. Although...
Femicide and Human Rights: Understanding and Classifying Gender-Based Violence under E.U. Law
Thesis - 20 pages - Public liberties
In 2008, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, during the launch of a campaign intending to end violence targeting women, said that the only global truth is that "violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable". The statement was a revelation that society...
Embracing Love to Overcome Gender Differences, The female search for love by Bell Hooks
Case study - 2 pages - Economy general
The conception that men and women are from different planets keeps recurring in most discussions that relate to the gender differences. Nevertheless, there comes a time when actuality sets in, and individuals realize that men and women share several aspects one of them being the need for...
Gender Commercial Analysis- Examples of Gender bias and stereotypes in television adverts
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The main purpose of advertisements is to make people change their behavior. In many cases, people are influenced by the model because they aspire to have the same trends. Therefore, the presentation of commercials tells an interesting story about gender roles in popular culture. Due to the...
The Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and its impact on the American economy
Course material - 3 pages - Economy general
The nineteen sixties were a time of change in the world and especially in America, where Vietnam protests and demands for civil rights had taken off. In this time of change the sixties saw women in greater numbers demanding the same rights as men and one of those rights was the ability to join...
Race, sectionalism, and gender in America
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh had very little in common especially regarding where they came from; Calhoun was a leading statesman in the south and managed to reach the helm of the senate and vice presidency while Fitzhugh was a lawyer. They, however, shared the same views about slavery....
Gender inequality in the workplace: One of America's many workplace challenges
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
What does the number 60,743 mean to you? Most people wouldn't be able to place this number off the top of their head. According to the author of The Face of Discrimination, by Vincent J. Roscigno, that is the number of cases of sex and racial discrimination cases of employment. (15). These are...
Gender related differences in patterns of employment in Sweden, and the effects of the parental leave in a woman's employment
Essay - 15 pages - Human resources
Sweden is very often taken as a model when a conversation comes to any gender or equity related question. It is said to be, not without any reason, one of the most if not the most advanced country in the world as far as equality of chances or the cause of women are concerned. Tough,...
A more neutral gender
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Life presents a multitude of choices. These vary from deciding what time to get up in the morning, where to attend university, or even what cake flavor one wants for one's birthday. These choices seem petty and society is not affected. Sometimes when an individual is presented with a choice, he...
The two equality directives of 2000: False-twins
Essay - 22 pages - European union
2007, the “European Year of Equal Opportunities for All” in the European Union ended a few months ago, stressing on the question of the current anti-discrimination law in the Union. This initiative of the Commission took place in a general movement of the European Union toward a better...
The gender gap in the ownership and control of property is the single most critical contributor to the gender gap in economic well-being, social status, and empowerment'
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
Before the 1970s, women were practically invisible: they were relegated to the family and the domestic world. However since the middle of this same decade, the gender issue has become an increasingly theme within the development concern. Globalization not only affects men but women as...
Maasai gender relations during the colonial period: A patriarchal transformation
Case study - 15 pages - Political science
The imposition of colonial power in Africa disrupted all aspects of indigenous society. Not only were Africans robbed of political independence, but pre-colonial social structures were also destroyed or transformed based on the mercy of certain colonial powers. The Maasai, a pastoral people in...
The Gender Gap in voting behaviours
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
European women first acquired the right to vote in 1906 in Finland. After the First World War, women were given the right to vote in a certain number of European countries. In the UK, it was gained in two stages: first in 1918, it was initially given to married women, women householders and women...
One is not born, but rather becomes a woman' (de Beauvoir). Discuss with references to determinist, constructionist and deconstructionist theories of gender.
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.' This famous assertion, excerpted from Simone de Beauvoir's Deuxième Sexe, concentrates the idea that sexual identity is an identity that one acquires, and whose acquiring is influenced by socialization, education, ideology and cultural...
A critique of the connection between gender and crime
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Official statistics show that overall males commit or, are charged with, more crimes than females (Scottish Prison Service, 2002). However it has also been shown, that in certain areas of criminality such as theft and fraud, female offence rates seem to be rising faster than males. (Steffensmeir...
