... and abilities of its female students even where there are disproportionately fewer females than males participating in sports."1 It might seem to some that it's only fair to share 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 ... resources should be put into men's athletics is the large donations from alumni who were former athletes....

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... Janet Mock, but there is still so much to the growing community that the general public is unaware of. It is much more common to personally know someone who identifies as gay than to know someone who identifies as transgender. In fact, only sixteen percent ... of adults in the United States personally know someone who is transgender, while ninety percent of Americans know someone who identifies as gay1. Since ... transgender community is not as commonly known, it is imperative to make sure that there is a way for information to reach a wide array of individuals. With the increased need ...

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... significantly garnering attention from lawmakers and transgender activists worldwide. Kyla Bender-Baird's book, "Transgender Employment Experiences: Gender Perceptions and the Law," is an insightful compilation of the transgender community's employment life and experiences with critical analysis on the politics behind bylaws governing gender rights and its implications in the real world. The book ... policies that will significantly uplift the day-to-day struggle of transgenders in their working environments. Upon subsequent and thoughtful interrogations, the participants revealed c...

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... the men at the bar collect money for bail, reasoning that, "A few lads just acted as nature intended." This casual dismissal of this sexual assault is similar to the commonly used idiom, "Boys will be boys," revealing how this behaviour has been accepted by ... society. This also displays how the rape culture is reinforced by the entire community, presenting women with internalised misogyny as accepting of the same cultural assumptions of the rapists. It exposes how the male hegemony has been accepted by our society and that rape has become the natural expression ... for male dominanc...

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... beneficial, in the sense that 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 ... is most often attached to homosexuality and homosexuals which most often results in gay bashing. I discovered that nonconformity is the behavior or gender expression that does not match gen...

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... for a biological explanation such as brain differences and chemicals such as hormones, they believe that to promote successful reproduction different characteristics and patterns of behaviour have developed in males and females. Reasons given for these differences in behaviours are factors such as the way females have a bigger ... femininity, (Willis, 1977) and this would put them in a more vulnerable position. Through history it has been a common idea that to be male gives one the advantage of having more power then to be female, it could be a case that a male who wants to belong to t...

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... they believe that gender segregation still exist but symmetrical families are developing much more joint conjugal roles and that there has been a large amount of equality between men and women. Young and Willmott also suggest that symmetrical families are opposite but sill similar stating that the husband and wife ... 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 lead th...

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... sex differences in aggression? Throughout psychological research, there has been little disagreement that there are obvious differences between the sexes in regards to aggressive behaviour. Statistics comparing FBI reports of crime rates between males and females in 1981, show not only that significantly more men were arrested for criminal offences than women, but that the crimes committed by women ... more aggressive than girls across different social classes. Olwens (1993), discovered that boys were more likely to become bullies or victims, and Boulton (1995) found that a high proportio...

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... 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 patriarchal views long held by Australian society. Many women began to campaign for equality and the freedom to be seen as individuals. Throughout the 70's up until current times ... 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 des...

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... a key roll in the originality and success in the literary arts for both men and women. Tradition in this case refers to the heritage of struggle and triumph that has characterized men and women's lives and their writings throughout history. For centuries there has been a struggle between men and ... woman in the literary community and this struggle has manifested itself in the fact that prior to the twentieth century women did not have much of a tradition in the literary arts so as to form and articulate their ideas in writing. As women grew as literary writers by reading and ... that,...

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... published in 2010, highlighted the "abysmal" treatment that rape victims were subjected to as they went through the criminal justice process. (BBC, 2010) Subsequently, it outlined key recommendations of new practices and policies to be implemented within the criminal justice system, which now allow rape victims to be treated much more respectfully than in the past. Despite this, female ... (Davies, et al., 2003, pp. 3) The problem with this however, is that criminal statistics provided by the government departments and victimisation surveys do not accurately portray the 'dark figur...

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... the literature (White, 2007). Where there is mass civil protest such as was seen in London in 2011 and Ferguson in 2014, questions of race, class, gender and other intersectional socio-political categories come to the fore. There is often an opposition between those who riot and those ... fall through the gap' in analyses which racialise the protest movement in particular demographic ways. In the case of London, young black males were at the centre of some of the racialised models of the rioting process; other groups, such as Asians, Eastern Europeans and so on were largely ignored. The ....

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... never to be regained." Perhaps somewhat astonishingly, Violenta is not adverse to Count Roderigo's suit; rather, her objections lie in the Count's intentions of having Violenta trade in her virginal status, in effect, her honor, without offering the proper recompense - marriage - in return. One could say ... like a material commodity - so long as it came with the proper packaging. Thus, the text reveals the paradox: sexual chastity was not a measure of how truly virtuous a woman is, but rather was an important negotiation tool in securing a husband, getting paid off in a sense by said hus...

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... marry Demetrius, rather than her beloved, Lysander. Egeus doesn't choose the court on a whim; rather, he is hopeful that by taking Hermia to the literal and symbolic seat of the highest authority of the land, she will recognize and honor masculine authority and, by extension, will comply with traditional gender roles, which dictated that a woman should marry to either preserve or advance ... Night remain compelling plays to the contemporary reader because, among other reasons, they portray women in their full human complexity. By confronting difficult social circumstances and challenges...

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... privilege men, often at women's expense. Patriarchy, Structure and Gender Inequality Walby (1990) reveals how patriarchy operates to achieve and maintain the gender inequalities essential for the subordination of women. Crucially for this essay, she shows how it can operate differently in the private and public domain but toward the same end. She identifies patriarchy as having diverse ... by patriarchy and unequal gender order has been normalised and legitimated by science, medicine and popular culture (Raymond, 1980). Feminists hold that this normalisation conceals the social and polit...

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... and University policy" ("Policy"). The statement is completely gender neutral in that it does not limit sexual misdemeanors to males or females, but 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 for most university guidelines. Similarly, Northwestern ... fact that "sexual harassment is offensive sexual behavior by persons in authority towards those who can be benefited or injured in an official capacity. Therefore, it is primar...

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... breasts, hip, no body hair, and long hair. But when feminists use the term gender, there are not generally referring to biological differences between men and women, but to set of culturally defined sex characteristics associated with masculinity and femininity. Masculinity, first, stands for societies in which men are supposed to be assertive, tough, and focused on material success; women are ... , free to not have families, free to choose their sexual lives and preferences, I agree with this view; that is, "democracy" [from this perspective] would examine a freedom, liberty, or independ...

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... human body. Knox contended that "the head hath [God] joined with the body, that from it, doth life and motion flow to the rest of the members" the extended metaphor continued, encoding the head as male, and the kingdom as female, thus when a King became ruler he was symbolically ... married to the realm. In traditional gender hierarchy, the male leader dominates over the female state, when there is a female head of state, the symbolic body is inverted, "For who would not judge that body to be a monster where there was no head eminent above the ... thing it is that a woman should give pu...

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