As common individuals, when we examine the nature of sexes we have an inclination to assume that males and females are the total opposite. We identify a person's sex as a judgment of their capacities and passions. ... It is important to realize how and why gender influences college achievement. ... Do you begin see a trend of a reflection of equality or are you now stuck at a two way street? ... For we have a percentage of students, male and female, who have done poorly in the past and now are on top of the achievement level; we have students who have done amazing in the past and now can&...

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Politics also played a key role in showing how women and men are unequal. ... She did this after hearing a panel of superintendents boast about their programs for disadvantage boys, in disbelief she asked the men, " 'Couldn't you have classes and include both boys and girls?' ... " He said no and told her, "You guys deserve as much as we earn because you have to work harder than any of us.... Once Title IX was enacted the amendment faced many problems because schools did not know how to integrate it, how to use it or even how to interpret it at all whatsoever. .....

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Indeed, the media is finally taking notice of how powerful, strong, and compelling female musicians are, but these incredibly iconic females are stealing the spotlight of other female artists who are doing what they can to erupt into the music industry. ... The club owners usually think you're a groupie when you show up early to load in or go backstage to chill, people tell you after the shows 'I thought that was gonna suck because you're a girl, but it didn't!,' and critics describe what you were wearing at the show as opposed to what you sounded like" Even for...

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" Lohan says, "They sat me down, literally before I was going to do the show and they said, 'you need to take care of yourself. We care about you too much, and we've seen too many people do this,' and I just started bawling. ... Sexual advertising is the media's way of showing off a product that does not exactly have a direct correlation to sex. ... Giving men a false sense of reality, having the belief in their head that they are automatically entitled to sex from a flirtatious girl, or that women enjoy being forced into unwanted sexual actions. ... We are const...

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In Kanner's article she writes about how men are expected to maintain this macho fazade. ... The gender of X does not matter to the other children, but because X liked dolls and wore overalls the parents cared. ... Yet, if these "cowboys of the new era" do not maintain a respectable social circle or have a pedigree from a institution for higher learning, they are looked upon by society as rejects. ... Everyone is caught up with the fine line distinction between what separates each sex. ... In Gould's article she claims that gender bending is over dramatized and that people should...

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Plus, if you do not follow the rules of the blatant inequality presented up front you then you are seen as a deviant and then must be disciplined. Under the subtitle, The Variations in Gender Definitions, Kimmel states that "Mead was clear that sex differences were 'not something deeply biological, but rather were learned, and once learned, became part of the ideology that continued to perpetuate them'" (Page 299). Kimmel explains how he thinks that the differences that are associated with gender were not one hundred percent because of biological backgrounds but it had t...

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The young worker imagines how they snuggle together at night and "he [can] feel the bond between the woman and himself" (542) that exists only in his objectified version of her as a sex object not a real person. ... Again the weather parallels the male libido, and as his ardor cools, so does the weather, which cools down the next day. Lessing's message is that Tom only has positive feelings towards the woman on his own terms as he objectifies her in his estimation of her as a sex object satisfying his fantasy. ... When Tom is rejected by the woman, "that's fixed you good an...

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The play would then represent the inferiority of women of Elizabethan times, and how sexism had become extremely prevalent within society. ... Miranda is referred to as "my rich gift- and as a "prize, honour you- that Prospero "tenders to thy hand-. ... Miranda, also, is represented as a form of slave, as she symbolizes the notion that women were to do as men wanted, through her submission and obedience to her father Prosper, and later to Ferdinand. ... As a Feminist's understanding of The Tempest is able to use the representations of gender within Elizabethan society to compare and under...

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Women do not seem to feel discouraged from using computers as tools to complete tasks. Tools such as word processing software are less sex stereotyped than say computer games, and are commonly used by women. ... As research and communication tools through e-mail, newsgroups, and the World Wide Web have increased in popularity and efficiency, women have overcome sex stereotypes and social stigmas about computer use and begun to become active on the Internet. ... They will never have to look the person they insult or threaten in the face, their family and co-workers will never hear about the fla...

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"No one would think it is the intimacy of sex - that mere sex is the reason each lover takes so great and deep a joy in being with the other. ... Aristophanes further re-enforces this characterization of love by suggesting that if two people in love were somehow offered to be unified into one being they would surely want to do this "Surely you can see that no one who received such an offer would turn it down; no one would find anything else that he wanted" (Aristophanes, p.29). ... He does however touch on a very significant point that none of the other speakers in the Symposium have touched ...

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Forty-three years ago a piece of legislation was passed giving women what should have been a fundamental right, gender equality in schools. As part of the civil rights act, Title IX stated, "No person.... shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, be denied benefits of or be subject to discrimination" (ncaa.org). ... Instead of her heroism and bravery, they reported on her delicacy and fragility and how it is ever present even amid the strength and power exhibited by female athletes (Olson 1254). ... Women have always and continue to be minimized and trivialized in...

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While our species does have the ability to walk on two feet like humans, we also possess the ability to climb on trees just like any other primate. ... Sexual dimorphism is the difference in physical appearance between males and females, other than their sex organs (Clark 2003:9104). ... If you observe humans in their stages of puberty, you would notice that males tend to grow facial hair whereas females don't, but instead they grow breast and no facial hair whatsoever. When you compare humans to my species, sexual dimorphism is also a pretty dominant trait we possess. ... Primates and h...

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In my paper I want to look at how masculinity and sport function as the root of male violence as well as physical dominance, and how the media further portrays male violence as a part of our society. ... The ritualization does not preclude actual violence taking place on or off the "field". ... "Part of "learning to be a man", and proving one's "manliness", is learning to suppress emotions and desires that do not fit with the ideal of rational detachment" (Peterson 1998: 90). ... Exclusion of this kind, coupled with feelings of inferiority, is a powerful and personal statement for you...

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Here Weber is explaining that people who have more money have greater access to items such as cars and therefore a greater access to public space. ... Here Weber shows that through wealth (and therefore higher paid occupation - something I will come to later in my essay) all men have a right to the public access of transport but all women however do not. ... She suggests to Helen (her good friend who she is sharing a bunk with) that they sleep spoon fashion, only to be shocked to hear a male voice ask, "Who invited you in?"... If Mrs Griggs was to break out of the home and go to work her an...

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