... pose a problem because the term "man" has been accepted as applying to both men and women (Kanfer 1972 in Martyna 1980). Unfortunately an examination of the realities of legal distinctions between men and women has shown this to simply be false. Marguerite Ritchie studied several hundred years worth ... important role. The social reality is that the problem with pronouns is much deeper than merely that of the male pronouns being used exclusively. A study performed in 1980 (Finegan and Besnier 1980) discovered that the female pronouns were actually being used in ambiguous situations but on...

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... emotional intelligence (1983). Emotional intelligence, such as counseling, intellectual understanding and interpersonal intelligence is labeled as insignificant in American culture when compared to the respect for technological advance. In support of this study, Riordan conducted his own study on children's consideration of job respect. Doctors received the highest score, which is a profession dominated 87% by ... such as aggressiveness and social learning. Furthermore, teachers embrace these gender roles, thus allowing students to act in concurrence with society's expectations. Due to ...

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... present in many children's lives. She defines hidden curriculums, as "covert lessons that schools teach, and they are often a means of social control." (Martin, 1998) Martin's (1998) study examines how the following practices contribute to a gendering of children's bodies in preschool: The effects of dressing-up or bodily adornment, the gendered nature of formal and relaxed behaviors, how ... Serbin (1983), repeated loud oral punishments toward boys heightened their disorderly conduct. More often than girls, boys commonly experienced interactions where their bodies were restrained or disc...

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... community. In order to make a difference, one of them had to bravely step out of a socially determined mold. Women in Chicana and African American societies have done just that in order to assure their voices were heard among the masses. Through many means, including poetry, music, and political activism ... have, deviating from those of black male rappers, a voice more readily heard. However, this opposition to the common voice of male rappers is not an easy one to undertake. Tricia Rose states, "First, and most obviously, it places female rappers in totalizing oppositional relationship...

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... famine wreaking havoc back home, the United States, having far better economic opportunities than Ireland, became home to the largest independent female migration in American history. By the nineteenth century, industrialization was in full swing, as were the gender roles inaugurated by the historical turning point; but those ... gender ideals were short lived as female Irish immigrants flooded American streets in search of "men's" work. Due to the prolific employment opportunities afforded to female Irish immigrants by the swift uprising of ... clean of anything related to money, as it...

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... movement in history that has succeeded in many institutions. This was the Feminist Movement that spawned reform in politics, the workplace, but has failed in the most important institution in American society, the family. Since the family is where children are initially socialized into the people that they will become, if the family fails to adhere to gender neutrality than the ... girls are not equal, therefore any law that states this is just a formality and not a reality and if children fail to conform to their roles there is said to be an abnormality. The Feminist Movement, therefor...

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The movie, "Two Spirits" takes a look at the world in a time when gender was not simply divided into male and female among Native American cultures. It explores the traditional Navajo belief in four genders and how it have changed over time. Fred Martinez was a male-bodied person with a feminine nature which was honorable according ... and wear clothing associated with both men and women. The Navajo culture traditionally values the balance of masculine and feminine to maintain sacred order, so someone who is gifted with an understanding of both is seen as valuable, and is treated with respec...

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... free from these misogynistic biases, rather that they are just aware of them and reference them to certain degrees. An analysis of these four contemporary Latin American films provides a way to look at the progression of the female presence in cinema. Mulvey is initially concerned with ... of females as instrumental objects of the male phallocentric interest. The highly conventional narrative portrays a single male hegemon6 again, el Mariachi, an altruistic outsider who unwillingly enters a violent, war-struck Mexican society despite his innocent aspirations to find employment as a humb...

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... 1950s, the female-to-male earnings gap has hovered around 60%: in 2001, for every dollar earned by a white man, white women earned 73 cents, African American women 63 cents, and Latinas 53 cents. Similarly, a study done in 1988 found that workplace discrimination was the "number one barrier" for women in achieving future promotions .Even in today's supposedly "more ... against affirmative action, "in large part due to the stigma often associated with the perception of being an 'affirmative action hire'[Mur01]." Despite these oppositions, there is overwhelming public support of affi...

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... on the elite women living on plantations with twenty or more slaves in the seven seaboard states of the plantation South during the period between 1780 and 1835. Through the study of nearly 500 manuscript collections that housed the contents of family letters, household inventories, the papers of female academies, commonplace books and physicians" records Clinton attempts to shed light ... upon the hidden lives of southern plantation mistresses, who she states, have been prisoners of myth, legend, and folklore. Many of the diaries and memoirs she studied are unpublished and unexamined. ...

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... one's sexuality is absent of any gender related characteristics. His contention was that all humans were initially born with a bisexual nature and the manifestation of one's sexuality is an evolutionary course of one's upbringing and interaction within their surrounding environment. In regards to. Bisexuality is what exists and heterosexuality naturalized constructed. Freud believed human as children have ... astonishment how the human race can have succeeded in overlooking the facts and in maintaining for so long the wishful legend of the asexuality of childhood." An Autobiographical S...

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... one's sexuality is absent of any gender related characteristics. His contention was that all humans were initially born with a bisexual nature and the manifestation of one's sexuality is an evolutionary course of one's upbringing and interaction within their surrounding environment. In regards to. Bisexuality is what exists and heterosexuality naturalized constructed. Freud believed human as children have ... astonishment how the human race can have succeeded in overlooking the facts and in maintaining for so long the wishful legend of the asexuality of childhood." An Autobiographical S...

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... one's sexuality is absent of any gender related characteristics. His contention was that all humans were initially born with a bisexual nature and the manifestation of one's sexuality is an evolutionary course of one's upbringing and interaction within their surrounding environment. In regards to. Bisexuality is what exists and heterosexuality naturalized constructed. Freud believed human as children have ... astonishment how the human race can have succeeded in overlooking the facts and in maintaining for so long the wishful legend of the asexuality of childhood." An Autobiographical S...

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... for women's liberation and preservation of life on earth. However, some of the problems with Vandana Shiva's argument are as follows: Shiva's analysis (in Staying Alive 1988) relates to the study of rural women in Northwest India, but she tends to generalize her analysis to cover all Third World women. Gabriel Dietrich (1990, 1992) points out that Shiva seems to presuppose ... the PRs for fuel wood, fruits etc., for sale in the market. In fact, men use CPRs in more subsistence oriented ways. Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan (1991), in their study of the Jharkhand region in Central India, po...

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... by Rodin, Silberstein and Striegel-Moore in the article, "The Contribution of Peer and Media Influences to the Development of Body Satisfaction and Self-Esteem in Young Girls: A Prospective Study" written by Hayley Dohnt and Marika Tiggemann, "Body dissatisfaction, or the desire for thinness [and muscle building], is so prevalent among women [and men] and adolescent girls [as ... to want to meet those unrealistic standards. Photoshop is used to either enhance individual's physical appearance or to make them acquire an attribution that the media thinks will attract other people. As expla...

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... likely to smoke anything, even if the father is a smoker (DeFronzo & Pawlak, 1994). Unfortunately, there was no study in this regard towards Latino children being raised by their father. One deterrent from smoking for specific genders of two groups, Latino males and African-American females, appeared to be religion (Andrine et al, 1994), though one-third of young Latino females still smoke ... influencing factor. Also, females who drank coffee reported it as a factor in their decision to smoke regularly--four times greater than males who smoked. According to Andrine and company's study,...

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... citizens have gone through in the past. During the early 1900s, America was experiencing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in which the American government tried to find a balance between interfering with and giving freedom to the market. However, in dealing with the conflicts between employers ... and employees at that moment, the way the American government reacted to these cases generated fierce discussion about justice and injustice. In Muller v. Oregon (1908), the issue was that as the ... the decision. The Declaration of Independence that advocated liberty and fairness nearly ha...

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... 's world. Unless someone is a hermit and does not watch television, movies, read newspapers and magazines, listen to the radio or surf the web, they will be affected by advertisements. This study explores inevitable detrimental influences of advertisement on people. It is a well-known fact that advertisement creates the awareness of presence of products. People get more information about the products they ... ...

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... access than men. There are great disparities between rights of men and of women to take hold of lands, even the women cultivated in that land not any less. Guerny's study suggests that: Disparities in male/female access to land are virtually universal. In Latin America, men and women do not have equal access to land even in those countries where ... ...

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... whom were observed with a daughter, the other half with a son. The children were from eighteen to twenty-three months in age. Birth records maintained by the University of Kansas Infant Study Center determined which families were recruited. The parent-child pairs were each videotaped while playing with six different sets of toys for four minutes each in a small observation room. There ... ...

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... 197's because it brought down the country's morality which brought about the sexual counterrevolution. In association with premarital sex 41.9 % of adults feel that it is not wrong. The Laumann study found that the frequency of sexual activity varied widely in the United States population. Adultery is widely condemned throughout most of the world. Sexual orientation is referring to a person's preference ... ...

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... idea is certainly made evident in Simone de Beauvoir's famously declaration "Women are not born, but made" . This is where the significance of biological determinism relates so closely to the study of gender. It is gender-role socialisation that is more important in creating "masculine" men and "feminine" women than any genetic traits men and women might possess. ...

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... the dominant framework for popular conceptions of sexuality is to perpetuate and assemble an even more dysfunctional sexual culture which includes violence, rape, and etc. According to a study done by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 1 in 7 American women has been raped in her lifetime, nearly one-third of American women (31%) report being physically abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point ... ...

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... focus on the task at hand. Charles Hampden-Turner, a business consultant and member of the Global Business Network believes that American business managers epitomize this male perspective. He and his colleague Alfons Trompenaars conducted research on the values and business practices of American male and female executives. Hampden-Turner reports, "that men ! tend to analyze business issues in distinct parts, such as ... ...

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... , to some extent, a woman of the twentieth century. The drastic cultural evolutions which have taken place over the past decades have allowed for Laura's actions to be socially accepted in American culture. Truly, a woman held back by gender barriers today would be considered sheltered as well as inopportune. However, while many aspects of ... American culture have evolved, the core nature of the human being seems to remain unalterable. Perhaps then, the sole reason that Laura would hesitate to approach Jaswin today could be simply ... ...

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