Gender Microfinance Essays and Term Papers
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Gender Difference
GENDER DIFFERENCE Biological Differences: The basal metabolic rate is about 6 percent higher in adolescent boys than girls and increases to about 10 per cent higher after puberty. Women tend to convert more food into fat, while men convert more into muscle and expendable circulating energy reserves. At age eighteen, men (on average) have about 50 percent more muscle mass than women in the upper body, 10 to 15 percent more in the lower. Men,
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Gender Moments
“He throws like a girl!” This insult is heard all too often and is harsh to boys because of the perception of girls being weak. We are constantly bombarded with moments emphasizing gender in everyday situations. After training myself to see these differences my eyes have been opened to something I have previously believed “natural” and allowed a new perspective to push through. I see attitudes and behavior now as socially constructed and not
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Gender Roles in the "the Story of an Hour" and "the Necklace"
From ancient years to the middle of 20th century being a woman meant being a housewife. Women were repressed. Not only they did not have any rights, except to stay home, do the housework and care for a husband or children, women were considered only a half of human being. As one Russian saying says: “It would be very funny, if it was not so sad”. Nowadays, when there are so many feministic coalitions, it
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Is the Media at Fault for Portraying Genders Falsely?
“TV is today's mass social educator with powerful influence on social life, people's worldviews, consumer behavior and the shaping of public sentiment. The network of commodity and visual symbolic sign systems within which we live is already so dense and pervasive that we fail to take much note of it” (Luke 2). Carmen Luke is a professor at The University of Queensland in Australia, and he focused his sociological studies on how the media effects
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Sexuality, Ideologies, and Gender Roles in Advertising
For as long as advertising and mass media have been around, so has their incorporation of sexuality and ideologies. Day after day we are plastered by articles, images, and audible forms of advertising. I would estimate that the average person encounters between fifteen hundred and three thousand forms of advertising each and every day. Of those fifteen hundred to three thousand, it would be safe to say that more than two thirds of them portray
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Gender Roles and Stereotypes
Multitudes of studies have examined the effects of societal and parental influences on children's own beliefs about gender roles and stereotypes. This paper, which is an elaboration of a group project** created by the Gender Boundaries Group* conducted in Eugene Matusov's Fall 1996 class, Psychology 100G, studies the research surrounding gender roles and stereotypes perpetuated by parents onto their children via modeling, clothing, toys, and television exposure, and its effects have been considered in an
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Gender Stereotypes
Intercultural Communication Gender Stereotypes In this essay I will define and discuss stereotyping and gender stereotypes paying particular attention as to how gender stereotypes influence our Cognitive processes and how the media contributes to these stereotypes . According to O’Sullivan, Hartley, Saunders, Montgomery and Fiske, 1994:299-300 in Holliday, Hyde and Kullman, 2004:126, stereotyping is concerned with the categorisation of groups and people as generalised signs, which signify values, judgements and assumptions regarding their behaviour. Gender
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Gender Bending Chemicals
Gender Bending Chemicals A large portion of the population in the United States store food in plastic baggies, buy baby toys, has a shower Curtain, and everyone has or had a rubber ducky. Theses are all typical items for the normal household, but do you know what those items are made of and what kind of harm they can cause to the human body and especially pregnant mothers. There is a chemical in each of
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Gender Differences Between Men and Women
Gender Differences between Men and Women What influences a person's identity? Is it their homes, parents, religion, or maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from wrong or are they born with it? A person's identity is his own, nobody put it there and nobody can take it out. Is there a point in everyone's life when they get one? Everyone has a different
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Gender and Age
Gender and Age Gender and age have become a major criteria in how a detective looks at their suspects. In many cases it makes more sense for certain criteria to be used. People are asking if the criteria the police are using is a violation of the civil rights and if the police is working toward their public safety. How does gender effect a person in the criminal justice field? To a great extent a
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Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture
Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture Through language, bias has proliferated in our culture against both women and men. Language expresses aspects of culture both explicitly and implicitly. Gender expectations, behaviors, and cultural norms, are determined through language. A divide between the sexes has developed which includes language usages, intention, and understandings. This has created obstructions to communication between the genders. When anthropological linguists look at a language, he/she takes into consideration the “world
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Girl Scouting and Gender Roles
Girl Scouts was created to give girls an outlet for activities not usually considered for girls. For that time period it was considered revolutionary and a step towards equality of the sexes. My Girl Scout experiences began in 1977 when I was in third grade as a Brownie Girl Scout. I was a Junior Girl Scout in fourth through sixth grades and a Cadette Girl Scout in seventh through ninth grades. Through Girl Scouting, I
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The Non-Nature of Gender
Our culture is littered with phrases such as “Boys will be boys” and “It’s a girl thing,” but what do those sayings actually mean? What does is mean to say that a child with male genitals is being a “boy” or that individuals with female genitalia are all part of a common “thing.” These terms in our society often go overlooked and accepted, but with very little thought for what it actually means. Gender in
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Gender Discrimination in the United States Military Draft
GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY DRAFT To secure the continuing existence of the United States democracy against intractable religious fanaticism, whose goal is nothing less than a Muslim theocracy for all of Planet Earth, it is inevitable that general military conscription will again be implemented following the 2004 Presidential Election, despite political protestation to the contrary. Indeed, a ‘backdoor’ draft, imposed by the Bush administration, has existed in our military for more than
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Gender Discourses for Youth: Critical Analysis
Gender Discourses for Youth: Critical Analysis Introduction The purpose of this report is to outline the particular “Gender Discourses” in young men in the magazine “X the magazine”. The magazine is dominated by males in visual and text representation. This magazine has extreme sport discourse where males are represented as courageous and enduring. I think the males are portrayed in a more traditional way, they are shown more stereotypical which is more likely appealing for
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Microfinance and Rate of Interest
Microfinance and Rate of Interest Microfinance is considered as key Instrument to fight against poverty and slogan of Microfinance practitioners is “serving poorest of the poor”. There are two arguments to the rate of return: 1. Dimensioning Marginal Rate of Return (DMR) to capital. 2. Poor’s are already paying higher rate of interest to many lenders. Financial sustainability / profitability: 1. Subsidy: Khushhali Bank receives 20% and Grameen Bank 30% of markup. 2. High rate
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Reaction To: “gender Differences in the Relationship Between Empathy and Forgiveness”
Reaction Paper: Forgiveness and Empathy The ability to be empathetic toward others and forgive is without a doubt essential to relationships between people. Loren Toussaint and Jon R. Webb’s study “Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Empathy and Forgiveness” gives some insight into how gender may influence the frequency in the use of empathy and forgiveness. From the data collected from the study their also seemed to be a difference in the way empathy is
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Gender & Jim Crow: Book Review
In Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore’s book Gender & Jim Crow, Gilmore illustrates the relations between African Americans and white in North Caroline from 1896 to 1920, as well as relations between the men and women of the time. She looks at the influences each group had on the Progressive Era, both politically and socially. Gilmore’s arguments concern African American male political participation, middle-class New South men, and African American female political influences. The book follows a
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Why Gender Matters in Understanding the September 11th Attacks
Why Gender Matters in Understanding September 11th Usually when the word gender is used in a political sense often times what is described is the role of women in a certain aspect of politics. This paper is a look at certain social norms that are directly related to women and their rights that seem to allow and harbor terrorist. The idea of the article that I am basing this paper on is by Amy Caiazza
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Conversational Humor in Relation to Gender
Conversational Humor in Relation to Gender Introduction Humor is all around us, whether we know it or not; although we do not find something humorous, another person may. A big barrier that keeps us from perceiving the same things to be funny is our gender. Something could be extremely funny to one person but very offensive to another. Humor is supposed to be enjoyable but why is it so controversial between genders? Conversational humor is
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Television Gender Roles
The television and the shows it broadcasts are both very powerful modes of communication. With millions of people watching the messages and propaganda, one show on a single channel can reach an enormous amount of viewers. The television is like an amplifier of ideas and thoughts. It is not necessarily a specific station that gives out this thought, but the television shows that are seen by worldwide viewers. People can gravitate towards the ideas shown
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Ad Marketing - Gender Roles
Commercials on television tend to portray stereotypical roles of gender. |The effect of television imagery can be particularly consequential in modern industrial societies like the United States, where 98% of households have at least one television set and the average American watches over 30 hours of television each weekX(Coltrone, Adams 1997, 325). These images do not create an accurate image of the modern woman, often demeaning their role in society. Females are depicted as attractive
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Race, Class and Gender
Race, class and gender have been a topic for most books that have been written. A lot of books talk about these topics because it is something most people face. Whether you’re at work and can’t get a promotion because of your gender, excluded from a place because of your class or hated because of your race. Know matter what you will be faced with one if these topics in your life time. Dorothy Allison’s
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The Meanings of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
“The Meanings of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality” The meanings of race, class, gender, and sexuality are definitely complicated and intertwined through intersectionality. To fully understand these meanings, one must first open his or her mind and recognize that social stipulations that society inflicts upon people need to be thrown away. One must ignore conceptions of something being static or natural (Mills 10). A naпve individual would consider race as simply a biological classification. However,
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Gender Discourse
Communication between males and females has always been somewhat complicated. Because we are arguing that males and females have different cultures we wanted to take a look at what some of these differences might be. According to our research the inherent differences between male and female culture are the different roles that society holds for them and the ways these roles lead to different communication styles. The stereotypes that men and women grow up with
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