Many boys lack ambition and have the attitude that getting qualifications won't get them anywhere due to the decline in availability of jobs that are seen as traditionally male. Where women's movement and feminism has increased girls ambition and self-esteem, by contrast, the changing employment patterns have lowered boys expectations and self-esteem. ... His research shows that boys are generally more confident in their own ability so as a result probably feel they do not need to work that hard in order to achieve good grades. On The other hand, girls have low opinions of their own ...

• Word Count: 1143
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel follows an idolized monk, Ambrosio, who struggles between maintaining his monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions after he is tempted by a young woman. ... Matthew Lewis portrays female sexuality as a form of power throughout "The Monk" to advocate that a woman is only able to obtain the power to make her own decisions after she has shed her virtue and becomes aware of the position she holds. ... The women in this novel are raised in a masculine world, and their personal lives and ambitions are controlled by those around them. ... A woman becomes sexually empowered ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Still, she was fortunate with her class status and generous father to learn under eight different tutors and to further her own educational horizons by extensive reading. ... It's possible that it was that very education that drove the creative desire to write their own publications. ... Similarly, Murray defended Eve posthumously in one of her letters saying, "A laudable ambition fired her soul and a thirst for knowledge impelled the predilection so fatal in it's consequences. ... Furthermore, it is interesting that Murray chose to defend Eve based on her ambition and did not u...

• Word Count: 2469
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It should not be entirely up to the man to make the money in the household, nor should a woman have to sacrifice her own abilities to make room for a man to work. ... This is basically saying that patience and specificity are qualities that are not equal in value to ambition and verve, which are more sought out in a man's line of work. ... Woolf describes her career as a struggle because there is this constant awareness of what society expects her to write as opposed to "having a mind of your own, without expressing what you think to be the truth about human relations, morality, sex" ...

• Word Count: 1090
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Women value prospective male suitors on a cluster of characteristics related to resource potential: good financial prospects, ambition, industriousness, older age, and emotional maturity. ... Each gender has its own set of mating strategies that remain unchanged since the dawn of time, and work to guarantee the survival of the species. ...

• Word Count: 1378
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wollstonecraft agrees that women have a place in the home, because they are biologically bound to their children, however, she thinks that women should pursue ambitions outside of the home. ... Wollstonecraft picks up on this and argues that women will never fulfill the "peculiar duties of their sex, till they become enlightened citizens, till they become free enabled to earn their own subsistence" (Wollstonecraft, 289) making them independent from men. ...

• Word Count: 1232
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Lois Gould's "X: A Fabulous Child's Tale," and Bernice Kanner's "Big Boys Don't Cry: Returning the Macho Message," each author's uses a legion of literary devices to identify the reader with the moral message he or she has dedicated their work's ambition to. ... The authors examine the history, the present situation, and the future effects of gender bias in society in order to establish each of their arguments as told with his or her own unique style. ...

• Word Count: 1388
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate