... school resources and scholarships equally amongst all sports; however any person with an ounce of logic and common sense can recognize why in this case equality is not the same as fairness. There are a multitude of reasons why men's sports deserve more money than women's sports, including the facts that they generate far more money than women's sports, there are many ... rare that a professional female athlete makes a donation upwards of a million dollars to her former college. In conclusion, the passing of Title IX as a law is one of the biggest legislative blunders in the history of T...

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... the house. Another aspect of the Symmetrical family is that the role of the 'breadwinner' is more shared that laid upon the male, as there are more families with both spouses in paid-employment than in the past. Young and Willmott think these changes have occurred due to the ... the influence that feminism has had on their attitudes, they have fought a long and hard battle for equal rights in the workplace and in education. As a result of them practically 'winning' the battles to a certain extent more females are in paid-employment that in the last 50 years with ... and outsid...

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... I became more knowledgeable on what sexual orientation entails, and also a few related terms that will aid to expand my vocabulary. My personal definition of a few of the terms were as follows, homosexuals people who choose to develop sexual relationships with the same sex, heterosexual people who choose develop sexual relationships with the opposite sex and bisexual person who choose to ... dept information on sexual orientation I can say I no longer hate gay people, because it is something most of them have no control over and they deserve to be treated equally as heterosexuals are tr...

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... Sexual misconduct occurs daily and to both sexes; society, however, has preconceptions that such acts only occur to females. Universities share this opinion to a certain extent, as evidenced by sections of their policies. However, most of university regulations are gender neutral due to the growing interest concerning gender inequality and sexual misbehavior. In addition to their ... rather encompasses both genders and any variations of such with the phrase "every member." Furthermore, the University clearly states that their policies coincide with state law, which serves as a foundation...

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... a male dominant discourse through the effective use of the film techniques, most predominantly through the use of dialogue, misè en scene, and characterization. Audio is used within "Shame" as a way to manifest how rape culture is a product of a patriarchal society, representing how the social perception of judgement or retribution from this dominant male discourse reinforces these misogynistic structures in ... exists within society being built from mateship and male-bonding through violence, drinking and gang rape. This scene within Shame uses the selection of young boys and their unr...

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... that a high proportion of inter-sex aggression in primary schools was associated with initiation by the boys. However a dispute does occur over an explanation for these sex differences, and as with most psychological theories, the dispute centres around the nature-nurture debate. Nature orientated theories involve the role of sex hormones, innate characteristics and natural physiological responses to explain the ... differences, while nurture orientated theories argue the influence of society and constraints of social roles. Ethologists such as Eibl-Eibesfeldt (1989) argue that the contr...

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... up to the late sixties and early seventies. From the seventies change began when patriarchy was challenged by women's movements and individuals such as Germaine Greer. In 1971, Greer's book The Female Unich focused on women's issues and rights helping women to challenge many of the ... oppressed women's rights in the sixties. Women's rights and individualism were completely ignored in this text and feminists would perhaps view the text as being nothing more than a classic example of how destructive patriarchy was to women's rights in the 60's. The contemporary feminist reader, looking ...

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... Newburn, 2013, pp. 322). Subsequently, the field of feminist victimology includes women in what has traditionally been male-dominated research. It has also adopted qualitative methodologies, such as detailed interviews and case studies, in order to obtain stronger awareness of the forms of female victimisation which have been largely ignored by mainstream (malestream) ideologies. For example ... further upheld the concept of patriarchy and phallocentricism. Moreover, it became evident that women were fundamentally presumed guilty until proven innocent. It was feminist research and finding...

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... transgender people reported police harassment [and] bias-motivated assault by officers" (25). Beneath the introduction is a list of policy advances that the government has made, as well as needed policy changes, such as ending the Racial Profiling Act and implementing the Violence Against Women Act's nondiscrimination provisions.3 The author targets the directed audience by formatting their report in a clear and ... eliminated any aggression that technical language could ensue. GLAAD's "Talking About" series highlights various facets of the transgender community that the public sho...

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... to the public. The author discreetly analyzed and interpreted the literature behind her use of terms, appropriately describing the historical usage and semantic application of the word "transgender." As discussed, the author was also mindful of setting boundaries in determining transgender identities in selecting the right participants for the study. Though this process was unsuccessful, Bender-Baird ... on some state courts due to the ambiguity of the term "sex." Furthermore, the emergence of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), its historical creation and revision, as wel...

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... them altogether. It is not necessary to judge Gertrude's actions, or those of the other female characters who have been examined here; rather, it is important to determine their significance as assertions of female agency, authority, and autonomy in a socio-historic context that allowed women little of these rights or privileges. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night remain compelling plays ... , they portray women in their full human complexity. By confronting difficult social circumstances and challenges, Shakespeare allows many of his female characters to be aspired to ...

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... men and women are supposed to be modest, tender, and concerned with quality of life. The western understanding of gender is based on set of culturally determined binary distinctions, such as public versus private, objective versus subjective, self versus other, reason versus emotion, autonomy versus relatedness, and culture versus nature; the first of each pair of characteristics is typically ... and argue about democracy in different dimensions. To begin with, masculinity's perspectives on democracy, widely held by the western and other developing countries, represent that liberal democ...

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... Elizabeth a body politic was created "out of a combination of faith, ingenuity and practical expediency" . Elizabeth further distended gender boundaries by frequently referring to herself in male pronouns as well as female. The concept of the body politic and redefining gender in the context of possessing two bodies, one male, the other female are inextricably entwined in The Old Arcadia. ... a king" . The physical representation of Cleophila is paramount, Sidney has redefined the success of female leadership, inverting the theory of the King's two bodies Cleophila could be interpreted as...

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... , in which black women in particular become a doubly charged political grouping in that they represent both feminist causes and opposition to white ethnocentrism. Thus the emergence of figures such as the mother of Michael Brown and Pauline Pearce – black women who are urging peaceful solutions to the crisis – becomes of intersectional importance because it demonstrates the complex ... essential opposition between white privilege and black social exclusion. In the case of Ferguson, figures who opposed this logic – black policeman, white protestors – were particularly important as...

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... of an 18th-century woman. Specifically, Manley highlights the disparity between the belief that a woman's sexual chastity was priceless and the extent to which this supposedly invaluable entity was treated as a bargaining tool, a material representation of the value of a "proper" woman. In the face of Roderigo's urgent persuasions, Violenta claims to be "a maidwho knows the the ... diabolical by the text. Manley emphasizes Violenta's rational and honorable motives by stressing her resolution and "heroic spirit". In Violenta, Manley depicts the origins of female violence as being situat...

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... how the concept of patriarchy is useful in explaining the relationship between women's subordination in the private and public arenas by showing that they work equally to achieve this subordination as well as supporting, reflecting and maintaining patriarchy itself. Firstly, Walby points out that the structures of patriarchy differ in their form. The household has a different structure to other institutional forms ... use different strategies to maintain gender inequality and these strategies both achieve the subordination of women. The household strategy is considered to be exclusionary...

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... because he has a more extensive potential capacity to reproduce and would so increase his number of mating improving the chances of producing as many offspring as possible, this with his preference for young healthy females would be a effective reproduction strategy. Because of the competition for these more ... we may suppress many behaviours that stem from evolutionary forces although not always, for example the more undesirable trait of jealously and aggressiveness as it has no social purpose in today's societies, both the biological and the evolutionary explanations mentioned above g...

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... , who was born to a wealthy family and who's father was a very prominent lawyer, had the luxury of studying his craft at university, with a peer group that included such contemporaries as Robert Southey and Samuel Coleridge. These companions of Wordsworth's, but most importantly collaborators had the advantage of a male tradition in literature to work and study from. Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge ... the children and/or other household necessities which led to the painful restriction of friendship. Not being fortunate enough to have the formal introduction into the literary arts at u...

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