... a worthwhile investment. Any athletic director who sees any sense in donating two million dollars to a girls" sports team that will in turn generate less than ten percent of that in total profits is utterly foolish and profoundly stupid. However, any logical member of the administration of the athletic department would realize that putting their money into the very programs that generate ... should be put into men's athletics is the large donations from alumni who were former athletes. Many athletes who go pro attribute part of their success to the colleges they went to. It's not uncomm...

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... noted in 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 who oppose the rioters, between the establishment (represented by the government, the ... , where many Asian American stores were looted and where, it was argued by some, Asian Americans were ignored in the race debate: 'In times of racial tension, Asian-Americans have tended to be left out of...

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... , when the reader learns that she, like Olivia, compels a man to collude with her in the promotion of the plan she has concocted to direct her own destiny. Finally, the reader encounters an altogether different type of woman in Gertrude, the mother of Hamlet. Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark, is obviously the most privileged and possibly powerful of the women who are considered here given her position as ... is also the woman upon whom the most strict and rigid social expectations are enforced and for whom it is the most difficult to achieve the kind of autonomy for which she yearns. In fa...

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... , 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 person who ... because it is something developed from the inside. Sexual orientation may be defined as the directionality of one's sexual interest towards members of the same sex, the other sex, or both (R...

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... 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 them to become more financially independent which has also caused females to gain more freedom, equality and status inside and outside the home. Ann Oakley (1974 ... has the major responsibility for housework. There is no evidence that the domestic division of labour has been improved but there is evidence that men are starting to share the domestic roles in the home howe...

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... Australia in 1961 and edited by Alleyne Jukes, may mean different things to a contemporary reader of today in comparison to a reader from the sixties, is due to the vast ideological differences in societies concepts of how women should behave in comparison to the entrenched system of patriarchy that dominated Australian Anglo-Saxon society up to the late sixties and early seventies. From the seventies change began when ... 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...

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... 1930's, and found that boys were typically 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 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 ... early in life, at a time before social pressures may have "shaped" behaviour. As well as innate characteristics, sex hormones have been found to play a fundamental part in the probability of aggression. If a...

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... . People in this community, especially sex workers, are at the highest risk for police violence and violence in general.2 To initiate reform and lower the rate of violence in the trans community, detailed reports are used to give accurate data and representation of the problem at hand. Reports such as "A Blueprint for Equality" by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and ... their report in a clear and precise way, which is necessary because, with policy reform, it's important that to be clear with what changes need to be made. Compared to the knowledge of the gay and l...

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... retribution from this dominant male discourse reinforces these misogynistic structures in real life society. Within the film, dialogue is used to expose how the sexual exploitation of women is an intrinsic part of Australian culture, displaying how rape has become a naturalized part of society. In "Shame," after Lizzie presses charges against the men who gang raped her, the men at the bar ... A frequent occurrence within the film, which is shown in this scene, is women being encircled by men in large groups, working together like packs to gain power over women. This animalistic behaviou...

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... the laws that is perhaps imbalanced, unjust, and ultimately, perplexed and unexercised. Although the purpose of the book was clearly stated, which is to provide a wider picture of reality that is happening in a transgender's workplace and subsequent scrutiny of constitutional legislations pertaining to transgender employment protections, it has its own limitations. The participants whom Bender-Baird interviewed were predominantly ... , such as issues on accurate identity documents. Gender markers have become a nuisance when transgenders apply for work, making it more troublesome for un...

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... that "gender" is not necessarily determined by our sex, rather it is a socially constructed set of ideas about what it is to be male or female and then taken on and acted upon in order to fully belong to that group which we naturally belong. Social constructivists unlike evolutionary psychologists believe that we are conscious when ... the sex or buy and make clothes they feel neutral and can be worn by a boy or girl, so the issue of sex is seen to be a very important issue for all concerned. If a girl is born she gets inundated with pink clothes and for a boy, blue. Toys tend ... think ...

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... suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot, guaranteeing the free expansion of the will of the electors 1 As considering that masculinity's view of democracy solely emphasizes civil and political right which can be defined to the form of patriarchy, among those who were excluded by the grand narrative of global liberal democracy are women. Liberal human rights are uncertain and ... really gain liberty or freedom, but rather oppressed as being the secondary position in any fields of societies. For example, for women reproductive control is fundamental to liberty, but the pressure to rest...

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Tradition in writing has always played 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 ... as a struggle between liberty and power, and Sarah Moore Grimke who drove one of the first feminist spikes in her essay Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman. Grimke drew and compared the legal st...

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... are inextricably entwined in The Old Arcadia. The Old Arcadia, through a series of surrogacies demonstrates the ideal of the body politic transferred from male to female, in similar circumstances to that of Elizabeth, culminating in an address by Cleophila to an unruly mob. Alfred Bill states that despite the "background of forest shepherd and shepherdesses, flocks and herds" political undercurrents make Arcadia "no true ... listeners trapping them with obsequiousness before asserting her own views and desires. She offered "hearty thanks for the good zeal and loving care of her people" i...

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... have not. Founded in the 1970s and significantly influenced by radical feminism, feminist victimology primarily recognises victimisation as the product of unequal power relations, sexism, and other types of prejudice within the law and Criminal Justice System. The feminist approach to victimology is therefore concerned with combatting societal sexism, achieving gender equality, and campaigning for women's rights. (Barberet, ... fact that so many crimes are not included means that the official statistics represent crimes as relatively rare occurrences, and therefore underestimate the rat...

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... their very foundation are contrary and illogical: the creation of heroines driven to extreme acts of violence that must be considered heroic rather than repugnant as they are a defense of those same societal constructs upon which the value of a female is precariously balanced. The first of the contradictions Manley addresses appears in relation to the economics of an 18th-century woman. Specifically, Manley highlights the disparity ... then, while Violenta is not making her virtue available for sale, she certainly is waiting for a society-sanctioned "trade-off" of sorts to take place in ...

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... exploited equally as a labour force working equal hours for equal pay in equal conditions (Haug, 1998). Haug (1998) cites research from East Germany which allows her to calculate that women do 4 hours and 41 minutes of domestic labour against men's 2 hours 38 minutes. Men split their extra two hours between leisure time and paid employment. She asks if it is a realistic possibility ... account for why women can receive less money than men for doing the same job (Golombok and Fivush, 1995). They can be used to explain why the political and social change which has allowed substantially gr...

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... is prohibited both by law 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 ... sexual harassment is clear and explicit; sexual harassment in any form is unacceptable [and] is not only repugnant, [but also] a criminal offence subject to prosecution under law" ("President's"). Northwester...

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