The Gender Issue: Why this issue still poses enormous problems in the American and European societies at the dawn of 2010
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology
For centuries, numerous demonstrations by feminist movements have accompanied women's emancipation. Their profoundly in-egalitarian status has dramatically changed. Women broke into all sectors of public life. However, we still notice today a lot of inequalities in the American society....
Scream: A Gendered Autobiography
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
One cannot discuss the concepts of gender without looking at the various frameworks in which it exists. In Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber states that gender is “a process of social construction, a system of social stratification, and an institution that structures...
Gender roles with respect to the American society
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
The gender roles, or the fundamental behaviors assigned to women and men in a society, have been changing more rapidly since the industrial revolution. Yet as much as these roles have transformed over the last several decades, conflicting expectations and pressures still exist within our...
Divided We Fall:Gender, Androgyny, and the troubled union of Adam and Eve
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Literature
The single most important question at the center of John Milton's Paradise Lost is the question of predestination. The poem hinges on the assertion that mankind has been created “sufficient to have stood, yet free to fall” (III.99); if we do not accept this assertion, and instead...
Does gender perception toward computing exist in Thailand? - A comparison study between Thai and the US
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Social sciences
Number of studies show that computing has been long perceived as a male domain. With this perception, females may experience negative outcomes in the computing-related occupation or activities, such as discrimination, pay differentials and the “glass ceiling effect”. Does this...
Doing gender: Reasserting masculinity
Thesis - 2 pages - Literature
Gender is a socially constructed status. Based on how others perceive us we are labeled as men or women, the only two genders recognized in Western society. Walking to class I notice everyone is ‘doing gender,' or they display evidences of masculinity or femininity. I...
To fight against any sort of discrimination, could and should all workers be treated equally?
Essay - 2 pages - Labor law
Gender, age, ethnic background, sexual orientation, religion, family life and private matters do play an important part at work although they should not. Recruitment processes, salaries, the daily routine at the work office, are all places where workers should be considered equals but are...
Women in Judaism: An in-depth study of gender and religion
Essay - 7 pages - Social sciences
The role of women in Judaism is grossly misrepresented and misunderstood even as we shift into the 21st century. Until now, such a topic has never had as much stamina and opinion as it does today. People today have gone as far as stating that roles of women in Judaism are sexist; however, it is...
The Female Gender Role in the Media An Analysis of Three Studies
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
In the United States of America, the media plays a gigantic role in the life of every man, woman, and child. No one can escape the media, for our life has become based around it. Televisions are being built into cars, the internet is full of advertisements, the radio is constantly blaring - there...
Patriarchal ideology, gender and media
Thesis - 5 pages - Humanities/philosophy
In a study carried out in the mid-70s, B. Miles (1975: pg.un) found that the proportion of men and women in situation comedies was nearly similar. However, the author points out that ‘the gender roles and the humor could still be traditional and sexist'. Thus, what we need to study...
Blacks, Jews, and Gendered Representations
Essay - 5 pages - Humanities/philosophy
The gendered representations of Blacks and Jews have caused them to struggle with their identities as people in American society. The stereotypes that have arisen from these representations have given two options to these marginalized groups of people:(1) either follow the predisposed vision the...
Why is the biological explanation of gender so popular?
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
In a cover story published recently in The New York Times magazine, Daniel Berger, author of the book “What do Women Want? Adventure in the Science of Female Desire”, which is coming out soon, analyzes women's sex drive in the light of a new drug called Lybrido that is supposed to help...
Reinventing Myth, Recasting gender: Myth in Morrison
Thesis - 12 pages - Literature
As an African American woman writer, Toni Morrison's relationship with myth is complex and multilayered. In an interview with Charles Ruas, Morrison calls myths the “nourishing stories”(115) that we are raised on. Myth educates future generations about values and strategies for...
Beyond Sissies and Tomboys: Atypical Gender Deviance
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Psychology
Gender roles shape how a person interacts with other members of their society. Young children learn gender roles from many sources, and are strongly influenced by their parents and family, peers, media presentations and daily interaction with other individuals. Gender becomes...
Gender, sexuality and politics: masculinity - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The art critic and author John Berger, known in particular for his introductory essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing , discusses a “promise of power”, which lies at the centre of a network of conventional masculine characteristics: authority, competitiveness, aggression,...
Compare and contrast gendered verbal communication and gendered nonverbal communication
Essay - 7 pages - Social sciences
Communication, in its most rudimentary form, has been described as a process whereby a message is sent by one individual and received by another. While this process as described here is quite straightforward overall, the reality is that this process occurs in both a dynamic and mitigated...
An evaluation of the contribution made by feminist and post-structuralist perspectives to the view of gender as socially constructed
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology
A number of fundamental changes have occurred this century in relation to what it means to be male or female. They emphasize the notion that femininity and masculinity are not necessarily innate categorise which pre-exist in each person and focus more on the idea that they are historically and...
Exploring gender role construction and conflicts in Niebelungenlied, the 13th Century German warrior epic
Thesis - 10 pages - Medieval history
The position of women in the medieval German state in the 13th century is a complex one when viewed through an historical lens that looks at gender and sex (using feminist theory) to understand this past era. What are the factors that shaped gender dynamics, as trends from the end...
Gender socialization
Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences
From the moment a baby is born, he or she is forced into a world of gender socialization that is often rigid and limiting. Growing up in such a world has consequences for everyone, including how much money will be earned, how power will be divided in relationships, even how long and how...
The Gender Gap: A Brief Overview of the Theoretical Perspectives On Gender-Related Cognitive Differences
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
In the fields of mathematics, engineering, and science a gender gap exists. Men still hold the vast majority of professional careers rooted in math and science in industrial countries. In the United States, for example, men account for more than three-quarters of all medical doctors,...
The Effect of Gender Roles on Relationships
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology
According to the “Intimate Relationships,” gender roles are patterns of behavior that are culturally expected of “normal” men and women. The most common and traditional gender roles imply that men are supposed to be “masculine” and women are supposed to...
Disgrace : Gender inequalities
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology
Historically in most societies that exist or have existed in the world equality between the genders is a mere ideal. Even in the present world societies still have a strong element of patriarchy within them. In J.M Coetzee's novel “Disgrace” Coetzee depicts a South African...
John Barry, social theory and the environment, London: Routledge, 1999, chap.5 "Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought" & Mary Mellor, "Eco-feminism and environmental ethics: a materialist perspective", in Michael E. Zimmerman (ed.)
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
The first text, “gender, the nonhuman world and social thought”, presents the concept of eco-feminism by highlighting the links between environment, gender and social theory. The main movements within eco-feminism are explained with both their advantages and limits. The...
"Gender Bending Androgynous Sexuality in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet"
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Gender and sexuality are very difficult concepts to define in our post-modern age. To begin with, the term is outdated to fit the social norms of today: attraction lies anywhere and is not confined to ‘heterosexual love' between a man and a woman. Gay, lesbian and bi-sexual are terms...
Gender imbalance and rural families: China's growing problem
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
Post-World War II China produced a large number of babies as a part of the baby boomer generation. As a result, the most heavily populated country in the world experienced an exponential growth in their population unlike any other in the world. Because of the fear of depleting their already...
Gender discrimination in the workplace
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Even today, there is discrimination between men and women in the workplace. The salary for a man and a woman holding the same station is not the same. Women find it harder to reach senior positions in the organization. Since 1967, the participation rate of women in the professional field has...
Indian advertising: Perpetuating systems of gender, class and color
Essay - 4 pages - Services marketing
Advertising despite acting as a representation of a modern society which has the potential to erase social difference with is democratic spirit actually perpetuates hierarchies of gender, class and complexion. This paper will explore the growing bourgeois class and its ushering in of a...
Formalizing plea bargaining in justice and equality in the English legal system
Thesis - 6 pages - Other law subjects
Before discussing plea bargaining it is perhaps paramount to define what is meant by the expression. Plea bargaining refers to ‘the exchange of a guilty plea for a reduced charge or some hope of a reduced sentence.' In other words it is an agreement between the prosecution and the defense...
Phillips and Young - the common critique of liberalism and the divergence of views on democracy, the equality and rights
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
Our modern society has been solidly founded upon liberal principles; the Enlightenment constitutes one of the most influential political ideas in the nation-building process. Nevertheless, some criticism has emerged as our society seems to fail to provide all its citizens political...
Why did the U.S. refuse to accept Elizabeth Cady-Stanton's argument to abolish gender discrimination?
Case study - 3 pages - Social sciences
Born to a wealthy family in 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton changed dramatically a number of social and political elements of the US. She was one of most influential early activists of the US woman's movement. The most important point in her career was her Declaration of Sentiments. This...
