... , if you set your mind to it." This phrase gives children a false comfort and reassurance that they can be whatever they want to be. Little boys grow up dreaming of professional baseball and little girls may dream of dancing in the ballet, but these dreams will most likely never come true due to their given situations. America is a free country, where ... enough aggression, she is considered too fragile for the job at hand. Jennings put it very well when he said, "Holding power means little if women have to become masculine "iron ladies" to get it". (644) This means that if a woman must ...

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... sex to keep the family hearth, raise children and to be a proper wife. Following the significance were such roles as: women who combines professional and familial roles (25%), with 10.8% seeing the woman as sharing an equal responsibility with men today for the material well being of ... children. In conditions of social upheaval, economic instability and unpredictability, the main motives behind women's activity are making them to realize one's professional potential (finding work appropriate to their educational status), and providing the opportunity to increase the family income. The...

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... TV"? Susan Douglas still finds the telltale sign of cultural bias against women in TV programs such as ER and NYPD-especially being bias against strong professional women. (Signs of Life, In The USA, 2002; Susan Douglas; Signs of Intelligent Life on TV, pg. 250) I feel Susan Douglas ... issue pertaining to: adultery, divorce, dating various men, seeking marriage, lesbianism and jealousy. The writer of "Girlfriends wrote a script which allows professional minority women to be free to express their opinion, in which a viewer could use the show to analyze their own friendships with their Gi...

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... standards. Behn introduces us to Oroonoko as an African warrior-prince in possession of unusually Caucasian physical traits. She writes, "His nose was rising and Roman, instead of African and flat. His mouth the finest shaped that could be seen; far from those great turned lips which are so natural to the rest of the Negros "(8). Under the tutelage of a Frenchman ... lacking Christ-like compassion and by being willing to be provided for by a woman. This conflation of gender, virtue and status, seen both in Oroonoko and the Spectator, renders characters flat. Their lack of dimension crip...

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... public. The new dress the Flappers wore was at her knees and exposed most of her legs, and also her bare arms, and flat chest. The flapper may have dieted or even taped her chest to achieve the flat cheated look, as if rejecting her feminine traits. The new flapper offended the older generation because she defied the acceptable femine behavior. These ... ...

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... presented a class period to students in the exact same manner. The only manipulation took place in form of a change in the attire worn by the confederates. They wore either formal professional, casual professional, or casual clothing. The subjects were to rate all four graduate students in terms of five dimensions: competency, character, sociability, composure, and extroversion. The results were evaluated in terms ... the gender of the confederate and the gender of the rater. The results show that casual attire of female instructors was associated with female student's highest ratings, an...

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... play for should be less threatening as well, so instead of having a powerful predator like a hawk as there mascot they are thought as of cute gentle blue tits instead. On a professional level one of the biggest examples of this is the difference in media coverage of women's sport is compared to men's. There are many parts to this subject of media ... netball club is because there are a lot fewer of them so instead they stop playing. Another reason women stop playing when they leave school is because there are very few professional women's sports stars so there are a lot less role models...

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... quot;My lovely opponent" or "my most attractive adversary" remain remarkably common" (298). It's a very common situation that when women go to work. Comparing to professional male lawyers, female lawyers face more challenges to gain people's fully trust. Because people commonly think female are dependent, indecisive, weak, lack of emotional control, and too careful. People doubt ... in the way of women's achievements, which also bring out discrimination problems. Women have a hard time in jobs, because of the discrimination. Even though more and more female have professional jobs, discrim...

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... paper is the disparity regarding gender, and the reasons why female sports and athletes continue to be marginalized in comparison to their male counterparts. One status granted to most male professional athletes is that of a "playboy". Whether it is the money, the fame, the houses, the cars, or whatever, male athletes appear to have very few problems attracting members of the ... begun progressing, but at a much slower rate than men's. Probably not all too ironic, the reason for this again has to do very heavily with men. Not only are women's professional leagues still run by male bosse...

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... remain strong. Another characteristic that strengthens patriarchy is the primacy of female childbearing. Even though women gain strength in the workplace, people still want to know how women balance their professional and personal life (lecture 1/21). Even in this case, the deceased's parents wanted Mrs. Harris to be released because they want her to raise the children. This woman ran over ... of children. Finally, this case involves the derived female status characteristic of patriarchy. Women's status is derived from their attachment to men (lecture 1/21). A woman could be successful ...

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... these social perceptions that challenge the evolution of women as equal on all levels. In this study, I will argue that subtle and blatant sexism continues to exist throughout educational, economic, professional and legal arenas. Women who carefully follow their expected roles may never recognize sexism as an oppressive force in their life. I would argue that the social pressure women must endure ... to take that right away. It seems blatant that society is bent on putting women in their places. From the above examples, it appears American culture prefers women as non-professional, non-...

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... succeed in some athletics. Overall the popularity of male sports to female sports is the reason there are so many more sports for men. When it comes down to it, professional sports are in it to make money, not lose it. Male sports draw the crowds, while women's seem to be less publicly viewed. This is probably the main reason why ... male athletes? It seems more and more girls are becoming interested in sports. Girls grow up around it and there is a world of opportunities out there for them now. With professional leagues like the WNBA, LPGA, and others, girls can now make a career out o...

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... WELL have exclusively female "conferences" on-line and promote an environment without flaming. (Kantrowitz 55) Many women have found that the Internet and on-line services can provide many important professional and social connections between women. Janis Cortese, after being flamed off a predominantly male Star Trek newsgroup formed "the all-female Starfleet Ladies Auxiliary and Embroidery/Baking Society." (Kantrowitz 48) ... to build nurturing friendships that fit into the busy schedules of career women and housewives alike. The female discourse that take place on the Internet also ten...

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... girls were to be allowed to compete with men, the whole game would be changed and not for the better. There are many reasons why girls should not play at a professional level with men. Including that of tradition, fatal injuries, and its not just football that can not be played professionally with a mixed team but its most if not all sports ... reasons to suggest that a female should play football in a males team. It has been contended that just because a girl is a little smaller or a little slower it wont make a difference in a professional mixed team, its your skill and how hard you t...

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... likely that their differences in health, mental health, and substance abuse risks will decrease." The APA statement on sexual orientation is this " As these statements make clear, the nation's leading professional medical, health, and mental health organizations do not support efforts to change young people's sexual orientation through therapy and have raised serious concerns about the potential harm from such efforts ... . Many of the professional associations listed in the resources section (pp. 17–19) can provide helpful information and local contacts to assist school administrators...

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... many of the male scholarship athletes who are in football and basketball, most of these women got real degrees and planned throughout to enter "real" jobs. While there are some professional opportunities for women in a few sports, that will give them another chance for better education through an athletic career in schools. But, at the same time, I hope that none of ... , college, Or beyond. Much has changed for women since the 1970's. One of the most important events that have happened in the world of female athletics is the establishment of professional athletics for women. Educational...

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... triumph is the triumph of heterosexual norms. 4.2. Elizabeth Dalloway An example of the unconventional woman is portrayed through the character of Elizabeth Dalloway. Elizabeth has ambitions to have a career and a professional life. She has planned to be a doctor, farmer, or to go into Parliament. As Doris Kilman said to Elizabeth "Law, medicine, politics, all professions are open to women of ... hope in creating the androgynous world. Elizabeth Dalloway signifies the emergence of the new dawn of women. Thirty years before Elizabeth's age, women couldn't dare to imagine or think of prof...

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... with her own and discovered that what we think of as "feminine" and "masculine" are culturally determined traits, not inherent in biological difference. Two-thirds of African Americans who occupy professional positions are women and this often leads to resentment, which in turn creates tension and stress in female-male relationships. More African American women than white women are heads of ... the "experiment." I"m loud and opinionated and wonder if that is going to reflect on "men" as a whole after the experiment is over. Finally, the chapter discusses African American women holding p...

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... a common reaction. In 1970, Zimbardo conducted a study to see if this was a prevalent emotion. He asked his subjects if shyness caused discomfort or inhibited them from pursuing their interpersonal or professional goals. Forty percent of the subjects he questioned reported that they were chronically shy (2). A recent survey of a new group of subjects in 1994 showed that this percent had increased to ... shyness as being painful because they did not feel that they were in control of their lives. They believed their shyness made them more ineffective in both their personal and professiona...

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... work in the field alongside their spouses, were slowly turned homeward - to the role of housewife. A change in this occurred only during World War 2, as mentioned above. Today, alongside with professional women gaining stature and income, a new issue arrises - the feminization of poverty, which, According to Kottak "..refers to the increasing proportion of the poor who are women, accounts for virtually ... cultural, aspects of our gender differences, and accept human beings as they present themselves to us. A career woman receives our culture's OK, so to speak, in her choices - be it pr...

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... their potential, whilst more and more women became independent businesswoman and also passes universities with flying colours. Immediately this changed the home life and either both partners had professional jobs or one had a professional job and the other had a job, or the woman became the main earner and the man stayed at home to look after the house or do other business ... ...

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... support affirmative action. Society has taught us that women should be caring and nurturing, and because of these traits, they fit into redistributive agencies. Many women will hold administrative and professional positions in these agencies and so there appears to be a gender balance in public welfare, sanitariums, and hospitals (Miller et al., 1999, p.8). In a study performed in Los Angeles, it was ... , 2000, p. 3). The municipal study finds that females are underrepresented in the best paying or most powerful positions within city government (Miller it al., 1999, p. 2). These positio...

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... roles have revolved around child rearing and domestic labor, stressing skills of nurturing and managing relationships. Women did not receive the right to vote until 1919 and they rarely had professional lives until the 1970's. This past is important when looking at the current intelligence differences because society must understand how far the female gender has come in just the last ... fifty years. The female's role has gone from housewife to professional. Researcher Rupert Kirby then leads into male roles, which incorporates paid labor, stressing technical skills, autonomy and emotio...

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... or homemakers and men are shown in occupational work most of the time, having more power than women. This is not a true reflection on society today because many women have professional jobs(such as a lawyer) and a variety of men have jobs like nursing for example which on the media would be shown as a women's job. This issue is also debated against ... roles for the men. I think over the years the roles have changed a little in which women are now not just always shown as "sex objects" or "housewife's" but also in professional work and have begun to achieve more visibility outside the h...

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... as well. Funding for college athletic scholarships is much greater for men than it is for women. With the funding needed to excell in sports through college, men often pursue professional sports career preceeding their education. This is not as common for women. Even though an amendment, Title IX, was passed by congress prohibiting discrimination against girls and women in federally ... the aid of scholarships, some girls cannot afford to go to college, thus ending their sports career. Even if a woman succeeds in entering a college sports program and progresses to the professional level...

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