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  • Race and Gender - Abortion

    Race and Gender - Abortion

    Brian Kesser Race and Gender Abortion? Should a woman have a choice? This is the question that has plagued governments the world over for more than a century. Today, in the United States, she does. It was not always this way though. It was not until 1973 that women could legally choose whether or not to give birth to their unborn fetuses in the United States. This subject strikes a sore spot primarily for religious

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    Essay Length: 1,532 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Religion and Gender

    Religion and Gender

    Final Exam: Religion and Gender PART I: A) St. Augustine was a very interesting man. I think, because he was such a sexual maniac in his earlier days before his conversion that he just totally stays away (and tells others to do the same) from everything sexual. He takes this to the extreme by basically saying that sexual intercourse (and intercourse ONLY) should only be done for the procreation of man. This means that any

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    Essay Length: 1,072 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Gender and Television

    Gender and Television

    In a two-part article written for TV Guide in 1964, best-selling author of The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan claimed that television has represented the American woman as a "stupid, unattractive, insecure little household drudge who spends her martyred, mindless, boring days dreaming of love--and plotting nasty revenge against her husband." Almost thirty years later, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Susan Faludi suggested that the practices and programming of network television in the 1980s were an

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    Essay Length: 2,957 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Edward
  • Gender Differences

    Gender Differences

    Men and women’s roles in relationships are different from one another. The differences between men and women affect the way they communicate with each other. By having gender differences Deborah Tannen reveals the affect on the communication patterns in an essay called “Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers”. The author demonstrates how the misunderstanding between men and women affects the patterns in relationships. While many patterns and roles played a role in the

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    Essay Length: 1,093 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mike
  • Gender Issue

    Gender Issue

    Gender stereotypes are an influence from the day one is born. One’s gender is the deciding factor of a name, “girls” names versus “boys” names. Also, gender is what parents usually use when deciding what color to paint a nursery, pink for a girl or blue for a boy. Gender determines what toys they will purchase, dolls if they are expecting a girl and trucks for boys. The list goes on and these stereotypes follow

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    Essay Length: 747 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Edward
  • Gender Roles in Shakespeare

    Gender Roles in Shakespeare

    It is a peculiar feature of Shakespeare's plays that they both participate in and reflect the ideas of gender roles in Western society. To the extent that they reflect existing notions about the 'proper' roles of men and women, they can be said to be a product of their society. However, since they have been studied, performed, and taught for five hundred years, they may be seen as formative of contemporary notions about the

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    Essay Length: 1,846 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Jack
  • The Effect of Gender on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Kuwait

    The Effect of Gender on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Kuwait

    The Effect of Gender on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Kuwait Rastied Al-Ajmi Kuwait University, Kuwait This study explored the effect of gender on employees perception of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in Kuwait. The study was conducted on 436 employees (213 females and 223 males) in five Kuwaiti government ministries. The author wondered whether Kuwaiti females are, at least, as committed and satisfied with their jobs when compared with their male counterparts. The

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    Essay Length: 592 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Observable Trends of Race, Age and Gender

    Observable Trends of Race, Age and Gender

    Observable Trends of Race, Age, and Gender Over the past week I have been observing many things around NC State’s campus. I paid close attention to the types of people doing work in relation to race, gender, and age. The types of jobs I observed were the wolf-line bus drivers, Raleigh city bus drivers, construction workers on campus, and food service employees at University Towers. On average, the wolf-line bus drivers were middle aged Caucasian

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    Essay Length: 326 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Monika
  • Gender in March Madness

    Gender in March Madness

    March madness is a time of the year when basketball fans frantically converse about the “tournament” and how they are doing on their brackets. People entirely forget the fact that there are actually two tournaments going on at the same time. What about the hard-working women who are aiming for the same goal as the men in the NCAA tournament? Television sportscasts, newspapers, and radio sports reports do not help the situation, either. Whenever the

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    Essay Length: 938 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Jack
  • Hypothesis: What Is the Effect of Gender Behavioral Differences Among Children?

    Hypothesis: What Is the Effect of Gender Behavioral Differences Among Children?

    Hypothesis: What is the effect of gender behavioral differences among children? Many laboratory studies, field experiments, as well as co-rational experiments all reveal that though there is credible evidence which may suggest that there exist a direct cause and effect relationship of television in children’s lives. However the single largest common factor to emerge from these numerous studies is that watching television is one of the many vital factors affecting aggressive behavior amongst children. One

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    Essay Length: 688 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Steve
  • The Social Construction of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

    The Social Construction of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

    Socialization is the unequal distribution of power, wealth, income and social status between individuals and groups. This distribution is not random, it is patterned and structured. Three important axes of global inequality are gender, race and ethnicity, and class. These inequalities are on a global scale and are found in virtually all societies. It wasn’t until relatively recently, however, that a caste system developed to include race and ethnicity among class and gender. Since

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    Essay Length: 333 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • Gender-Specific Sexual Sanctions of Intimate Relations and Imperially Oppressing Political Sphere

    Gender-Specific Sexual Sanctions of Intimate Relations and Imperially Oppressing Political Sphere

    Tural Abbasov ENG 450B Prof. Donette A. Francis March 13th, 2008 Gender-specific Sexual Sanctions of Intimate Relations and Imperially Oppressing Political Sphere As a literary genre, romance or chivalric romance we refers to the heroic writing style and free verse narrative. Modern times have altered the ways women are portrayed in movie industries’ romantic genres. With the wave of feminism and colonial desire we are able to identify specific genre of romance in films that

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    Essay Length: 2,333 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Gender Socialization as a Female

    Gender Socialization as a Female

    Gender Socialization We are currently living in a society where women are making new gains in the business world and are obtaining more jobs that at one time were considered “male” jobs. But, it is still no secret that women and men are not treated as equals. From the beginning of your life you are either treated as a male, or a female. Not in terms of sex, but in terms of gender. Stephen Sweet

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    Essay Length: 1,454 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Gender Roles in Shakespeare

    Gender Roles in Shakespeare

    Gender Roles in Shakespeare It is a peculiar feature of Shakespeare's plays that they both participate in and reflect the ideas of gender roles in Western society. To the extent that they reflect existing notions about the 'proper' roles of men and women, they can be said to be a product of their society. However, since they have been studied, performed, and taught for five hundred years, they may be seen as formative of contemporary

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    Essay Length: 1,849 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • The ‘sex'and ‘gender' Distinction

    The ‘sex'and ‘gender' Distinction

    This essay got an A- in a first year gender studies course The ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ Distinction For centuries, women have been subject to having their competence scrutinised, their mental processes challenged, their abilities questioned in western civilisation. In this essay, I will begin by giving some historical perspective to the scrutiny of women as it is important to know how it came to be that women have been seen as lower status when compared

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    Essay Length: 1,416 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: July
  • Circuit of Cultural Analysis - Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture

    Circuit of Cultural Analysis - Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture

    Circuit of Cultural Analysis: Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture Representations of gender are portrayed as essential norms in today’s culture, creating standardized myths and sexism within society through the media. The normative portrayals of gender in society consist of stereotypical roles and images that are created through media devices such as, film, television, popular fiction, music and advertisements. Judith Butler draws on the idea of gender performativity and explains how

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    Essay Length: 4,490 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • Gender Roles

    Gender Roles

    Femininity and masculinity are topics that have been debated over in our society extensively, through psychological research and day to day interaction with people. Children learn from their parents as well as society the concept of “feminine” and “masculine.” The majority of people tend to believe that these conceptions are biological but I believe it is more cultural. From birth, female children are shaped by society as being sweet, caring, loving, and delicate and

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    Essay Length: 708 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Fairy Tales & Gender Roles

    Fairy Tales & Gender Roles

    FAIRY TALES & GENDER ROLES Some things about fairy tales we know to be true. They begin with "once upon a time." They end with "happily ever after." And somewhere in between the prince rescues the damsel in distress. Of course, this is not actually the case. Many fairytales omit these essential words. But few fairytales in the Western tradition indeed fail to have a beautiful, passive maiden rescued by a vibrant man, usually

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    Essay Length: 1,200 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Gender Inequality in the Workplace

    Gender Inequality in the Workplace

    Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage. Pacifism covers a spectrum of views ranging from the belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully resolved; to calls for the abolition of the institutions of the military and war; to opposition to any organization of society through governmental force (anarchist or libertarian pacifism); to rejection of the use of physical violence to obtain political, economic

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    Essay Length: 335 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Top
  • Gender Roles in Marie Claire

    Gender Roles in Marie Claire

    One of the most prevalent forms of invisible social control is the creation and perpetuation of stereotypes. Today’s society is filled with stereotypes and the media has proven to be an excellent breeding ground. Research in the stereotype domain indicates that the media can prime stereotypes, and these primed stereotypes do influence how people are later perceived. Also the research on media priming of stereotypes generally increases confidence in the generality of the media as

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    Essay Length: 1,890 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Monika
  • Gender

    Gender

    Gender It is a fact that men and women differ in so many aspects of their lives and more so how they act. The ways in which they act differs whether they are in their element at home, the workplace, school, or just about anywhere else one can think of. Furthermore, not only do grown men and women differ but as do girls and boys. Gender differences begin at birth and tend to influentially form

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    Essay Length: 758 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Janna
  • Us Legal Tradition Concerning Gender-Based Discrimination

    Us Legal Tradition Concerning Gender-Based Discrimination

    The legal tradition of the United States is deeply rooted in English common law. Thus, the legal history of gender bias in United States law has its origins in the English tradition. One writer describes the attitudes of this tradition by describing the status of a woman in relation to her husband as “something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse” (11). Under English common law, the woman was merely an extension

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    Essay Length: 955 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • Gender Typing

    Gender Typing

    Gender Typing Gender typing begins as soon as a child enters the world, from the pink outfit for the girls and the blue outfit for the boys. Gender typing is gender-linked preferences and behaviors valued by the larger society. Even when parents try to avoid gender typing, for example, giving children toys outside of their “gender” (boy given a doll) or treating both genders similarly (rough-play with a girl), as the child gets older

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    Essay Length: 2,786 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Gender in ’a Doll’s House’ & the Importance of Being Ernest’

    Gender in ’a Doll’s House’ & the Importance of Being Ernest’

    How Is Gender Represented In ‘A Doll’s House’ And ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’? A Doll’s House and The Importance of Being Earnest were both written in the late nineteenth century at a period in time when gender roles in society were not only significant to the structure of society but were restrictive and oppressive to individuals. This was particularly true in the case of women who were seen as the upholders of morals in

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    Essay Length: 2,043 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Top
  • Gender Based Differences in Wages

    Gender Based Differences in Wages

    Assignment #3: Ideas & Theory Choose a phenomenon of interest. Gender based differences in wages. Find a variety (three) of sources (six) that relate to that phenomenon. Baynard, Kimberly (2003). New Evidence on Sex Segregation and Sex Differences in Wages from Matched Employee-Employer Data. [Electronic Version]. Journal of Labor Economics, 21, 997-922. We use new matched employer-employee data to estimate the contributions of sex segregation and wage differences by sex within occupation, industry, establishment, and

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    Essay Length: 656 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Anna

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