... in Athletics, Part Three: Effectively Accommodating Interests and Abilities; In the assessment of the "interests and abilities" portion of the Title IX regulations, a three part test governs. This law states that: "This part of the test is satisfied when an institution is meeting the interests and abilities of its female students even where there are disproportionately fewer females than males participating in ... more sports memorabilia, and receive many more alumni donations. The most obvious reason why men's sports deserve a much larger percent of their college's athletic budget is t...

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... 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 responding to their contemporaries, their literary tradition grew with them. For instance, In North ... enough to have the formal introduction into the literary arts at university, as did her male counterparts, gave way to the denial of opportunity to converse on an educated literary scale with her female contemporarie...

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... the transgender community in recent years can be credited to such influential individuals as Caitlin Jenner, Laverne Cox, and 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 ... for policy reform for example is more formal than a report addressing how to reduce stigma against transgender people. Yet, when it comes to reports on health care, the writing style differs because the aud...

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... behind bylaws governing gender rights and its implications in the real world. The book puts the spotlight on the lived experiences of 20 transgender participants struggling from different forms of workplace bullying, violence, and discrimination. Bender-Baird's writing aims to expose these gender injustices to the public eye and hopes that in due time, would reach a meaningful concurrence ... for political officials to consider. The book also covers authentic stories that happened within the last decades, which is relevant enough to be included ... in the provision and formation of se...

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... affected by it. The contemporary reader can't help but be aware of them and in many cases, to view many of the characters present in several plays by Shakespeare as some of the main motivators of action as well as some of the most complex characters overall. Some of the most interesting female characters in Shakespeare's writing are Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Viola and Olivia ... in Twelfth Night, and Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother, in Hamlet. Although each of these women finds herself in a social ... both Olivia and Viola are women who enjoy certain socia...

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... Hence one as very little control as it relates their sexual orientation 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 (Rathus 2011). Prior to the completion of this unit I thought that most homosexuals actually made the decision/choose to become ... system and religious belief I engage in gay discrimination, but with all this in dept information on sexual orientation I can say I no longer hate gay people, because it is something most of them have ...

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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 ... up until current times patriarchy has been challenged on all levels, enabling many women to overcome societies long held views of patriarchy. The feminist reader in today's society may think the vie...

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... symmetrical families are opposite but sill similar stating that the husband and wife might still complete different task but there is still a fair division of roles and contribution around 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 ... 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) is a feminist ...

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... roles. Ethologists such as Eibl-Eibesfeldt (1989) argue that the contrasting physiological responses between the sexes, to aggressive stimuli help to show that it is an innate characteristic of men to be more aggressive than women. In his study, he found that while both sexes respond to aggressive stimuli with increased blood pressure, given the opportunity to ... 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 girl is exposed to high levels of...

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... 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 associated with masculinity, the second with femininity. Hence ... to plan their own families, free to not have families, free to choose their sexual lives and preferences, I agree with this view; that is, "democracy...

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... which the media in Britain employed in its coverage of Pauline Pearce. This gendering of the riots emphasised feminine domesticity – the protecting of homes and places of work – in the face of young male violence (Mainardi, 1970). The role of black women in the context of young black male rioting is something which is often neglected. In the case of Michael Brown, his mother was at the centre ... intersectionality, but also removed gender and race from the discourse by instead focusing on social exclusion, and how it can contribute to a rioting class irrespective of race, gender and...

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... 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 rest, but that the eyes were in ... "king" remains unchanged, and the dexterity and "unbashed countenance" in which Cleophila condemns the crowd suggests that, despite her femininity, she is equally capable of maintaining the position, indeed it is "the goodliness of her shap...

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... 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, 2010 ... crimes are not included means that the official statistics represent crimes as relatively rare occurrences, and therefore underestimate the rate of crime and victimis...

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... was not above being traded 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 husband's wealth, and cementing a woman's societal status as a "proper& ... determinedly dependent on the latter. The sole reason society condemns Violenta and "looked upon her as a despicable creature, whose reputation being lost, not one of any figure would appear in her defense" (1...

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... or 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 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," revea...

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... policy in addition to their policy's gender neutrality. First, the University of Maryland states that "sexual harassment is an illegal form of sex discrimination. It is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the federal law prohibiting employment discrimination" ("Sexual"). The University of Maryland therefore incorporates federal law into their sexual harassment policy; by adding ... leaves the written law simply as a form of discrimination. Therefore, the law can be interpreted a multitude of ways. Correspondingly, even if the act committed is not in a ...

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... likely to bond with her and guard her from other males to ensure any offspring are his. In modern times this behaviour of guarding is seen as one of the lesser desirable trait of jealousy. Buss et al, 1992 Evolutionary psychologists believe the reason it was found that males are more likely to sleep with ... both the biological and the evolutionary explanations mentioned above gives more very plausible explanations for this. Once we are born the main concern of everyone around us is whether we are male or female, before the birth older siblings may be asked whether they want a brother or...

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... it would have been impossible to write this essay thirty years ago. Feminist Theory and Patriarchy Although " patriarchy is arguably the oldest example of a forced or exploitative division of social activities" and clearly existed before it was ever examined by sociologists, the features of patriarchy had been accepted as natural (biological) in substance. It was not until feminists in the 1960s began ... to enter the labour force has also concentrated them in the poorest employment (Golombok and Fivush, 1995). This is especially so if Garnsey's (1991) description of the differentiated...

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