Although there is a common goal between them, there are varying views. ... Some behaviors are encouraged because modern society shows that to achieve what you want in life you are successful if you show aggression and are competitive. ... Out of all the different types of feminism there is one underlying common goal: To eliminate sexism and discrimination within politics, the workplace, and overall society. ... Women who go into science related fields need to have a tough exterior to handle these hurtful remarks and need to work twice as hard to achieve what men do. ... From an early start we ...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In most contexts, manhood seems to be a self made goal, a challenge that should be defeated (Gilmore 17). ... This is a goal in his own mind, but will take him over the wall of being a man. ... These things can all be achieved, in Walter's mind, when he gets his liquor store. ... Compulsive masculinity is something that can be seen by Walter as achievable if he could get his store. ... Resisting regression from the mother is another way to make Walter a man and can be achieved by getting his liquor store. ...

• Word Count: 1442
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The gender difference creates the discrimination among women in their solely given obligation as mothers and in their expected civil right goals. ... In effect, women have followed up with the unfair perspective of lower career positions, goal expectations, and decrease in salaries. The economic inferiority of women has given them the incapability of achieving their potential to the fullest the way men are, and has caused the financial difference of women to shed prejudice disappointment. ... There should be an invention of a society truly committed to the caretaking principles which should b...

• Word Count: 2102
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Despite her rejection of the feminist label, Virginia Woolf's goal in writing To The Lighthouse and Mrs. ... Woolf's goal in writing these novels was not entertainment; she was eliciting social change to the best of her abilities. ... Woolf's goals in writing To The Lighthouse and Mrs. ... One cannot achieve a label of neutrality if one's actions are biased, whether deliberate or not. ... Virginia Woolf's failure to drop her feminist label, failure to achieve neutrality, and consistently feminist fiction proves my thesis: She fought for feminist causes, not universa...

• Word Count: 2233
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Feminist movements, such as achieving the right to vote in the 1920's, and the push for equality in the workforce and education in the 1970's, brought to light, more than ever, the inequalities of the sexes. ... She further states that, "Characterizing femininity and masculinity in such a way does not portray the two clusters of characteristics as being in a hierarchal relationship to one another but rather as being two different approaches to the same question, that question being centrally concerned with the goals, means, and use of power, (Devor 418)." Essentially, one feels pow...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

The design of the UNDAF document has evolved out of strategic discussions - both within the UN and with partners - to determine how the UN System in India is best suited to support the development goals of the country. ... The narrative for the UNDAF outcomes reflects the totality of the work of all UN entities (whether undertaken individually or jointly), thus providing a comprehensive logic for how the UNDAF outcomes will be achieved. 2. ... Though there has been a substantial decline in overall infant and child mortality and a consequent increase in life-expectancy of the population, the ...

• Word Count: 1899
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This I believe is also counterproductive to that same overall goal of gender equality in youth sports. ... The goal behind title IX is obviously to create and maintain equal opportunity between males and females, but it's not entirely specific on how that is to be achieved. ... I think it's important for the athletic administrator, when faced with issues regarding Title IX, to remember its overarching goal and purpose. ... For these reasons and many more, I think the goal of gender equality should be considered and understood as a "group goal" not an "individual goal...

• Word Count: 1701
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

Because this view of women has been so ingrained in society, the dominant goal was "valuing equally that which was marked as female or feminine, and having equal access to domaine that had been exclusive to men" (Baumgardner, p. 38). ... There was a focus on maintaining the goal of sisterhood, but it was soon realized that "there could be no real sisterhood between white women and women of color if white women were not able to divest of white supremacy, if the feminist movement were not fundamentally anti-racist" (Bellhooks, p. 26-27). ... The feminist movement has been ...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"It is almost a truism to state that consideration of the woman-man relationship "as a sexual relationship, a core family relationship, a strongly enforced ideological goal and expectation "brings us near the heart of the sociology of gender" "(Chodorow pg. 67). ... On the other hand, women are socialized to want to be emotionally connected to their friendships, trust and reliability is going to be the main goal when creating a new friendship with a woman. ... Here, the starting point is the fact that both boys and girls are mainly raised by women and have to detach from mothers to c...

• Word Count: 1760
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In total, it can be said that Kingston is arguing, based on tradition, no matter how hard women work towards gaining the approval of the men in society, they will never fully achieve men's approval and therefore there will always be a struggle to obtain acceptance and equality. ... She battles to reconcile her lifelong goal of receiving her father's approval with her passion, writing. In the end, this goal is achieved, and her father finally recognizes that she is just as important as his sons. ... The fight to gain equality and acceptance is something women have been pushing to ach...

• Word Count: 1810
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At the last Women's Soccer World Cup, U.S.A. player Brandi Chastain scored the winning goal for the United States in a penalty shootout against China. ... Following the World Cup in June of 2003, Soccer's governing body banned male and female players from removing shirts during celebrations after goals. ... Models, who supposedly are the type of look that women should be "modeling" themselves after, are stereotypically "skin and bones" and are not an achievable size for the average woman. ... In the present, women are constantly putting forth equal effort as men, but not achievi...

• Word Count: 1777
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

People want money and power and the American dream promises that anyone who works hard enough can achieve the dream. ... Trying to achieve the American dream has negative effects on men in general. ... Cleaver was an excellent example of the goal of the American dream in the 1960s. ... The American dream is an unrealistic goal which causes for a highly discouraged population. ...

• Word Count: 1718
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Gender equality aims to achieve a genuine balance between men and women by respecting human rights. ... This is the primary goal of new age and black feminism. ... Feminist therapy also helps women overcome barriers they experience in achieving their personal goals and assists them in recognizing and reaching their full potential. ...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

A leader's calling includes addressing the needs of the individuals being served, growing further into oneself and achieving results, while also building a team that produces. ... Every day more women are welcomed into the workforce, however, house and child duties are still assumed by women, hence they are compromising their career goals for their partners and children (Bohler, 2013, p. 36). ... The first trait involves being knowledgeable and possessing discernment, which "enables the leader to balance the masculine and feminine parts of her nature and to be adroit as she uses a full a...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Unfortunately, the people they look up to as "body goals" are extremely unrealistic in most cases. Soon many men realize that and take other approaches in order to achieve the look that they believe people want to see. ... In order to achieve their skinny, skeletal look, they often deprive their body of the food they need to be healthy. ... A lot of times, women who try so hard to achieve the same look end up picking up the same eating habits and develop eating disorders like those on the runway. ... So many people are taking unnecessary and unhealthy approaches to achieve "per...

• Word Count: 1997
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

By giving these women power and intelligence, Shakespeare reminds us that although his contemporaries (and many of our contemporaries as well) assume that men and women fulfill certain stereotypes, both genders are more than capable of superseding those limitations in order to attain their goals. ... Butler illustrates the concept that the desire to desire eventually consumes itself once the desire is achieved. ... Duke Orsino also sees now that because Cesario is really a woman his desire can be achieved without breaking down the social norms of society. ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It brought many people together in order to achieve the common goal of gaining independence. ... These propagandas would even claim that "women could only achieve equality by fighting for a country freed from colonial domination" (Vince 2010: 446). ...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

But Edna wants to be womanly in her own way--to keep her own identity, her goals, her artistry, and to live a sexual life, liberated from the confines of societal expectations. ... This discovery leads her to realize that such intimacy can be achieved with men as well. ... As a woman who has just realized her unconscious perpetuation of patriarchal dominance, she develops the mistaken notion that to be more masculine--more powerful, self-interested, and self-indulgent "is to achieve equality and freedom. ...

• Word Count: 1837
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

This is because women are often subjected to ideal body images throughout the media; which set unrealistic goals. ... As a double negative within the magazines, when not censored and filtered out of magazines, categories of bodies other than underweight are shown in negative highlight and are often commentated with disgust or unappeal; even photo edited to appear slimmer, creating completely unnatural goals. ... Everyone is unique in both their mind and body and these goals unattainable by most prevent people from being themselves. ... Same in the sense that men are given set goals, different...

• Word Count: 2056
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout their lives men are encouraged to take the harder routes while, conversely, women are presented with "almost irresistible temptations; everything incites her to follow the easy slopes -4 Therefore, men achieve power and success and women become both economically and socially dependent on them. ... Consequently, they dedicate their lives to "getting a man,"" and will do practically anything in order to achieve this goal. ... As deBeauvoir points out, it is a "small matter to her to have second place if she has her place - (deBeauvoir 237) It is obvious to some women that marriage...

• Word Count: 1940
• Approx Pages: 8

In our society there are such systems and structures that postulate social ways to define and organize gender, to know what to expect of each gender and what opportunities are available or not available to females and males. These stereotypic ideas are based on certain values and beliefs that have b...

• Word Count: 1909
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 social ties and familial goals, not to gratify her own romantic or sexual needs or desires. ... The fact that Olivia uses her power as the lady of the house to compel a servant to lie on her behalf so that she can make her romantic and sexual decisions for...

• Word Count: 2208
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

If women didn't exist Human life would be rid of all its miseries" [562-593] Medea is successful in her goal to destroy Jason, and is shown as too strong to regret her decision to kill her children. ... In the repressively patriarchal culture in which she lives, Antigone adopts the characteristics of the dominate sex to achieve her goal. ...

• Word Count: 1759
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

For centuries, worldly cultures have considered women to be the lesser, subservient sex. In the United States, when women first gained the right to vote with the 19th Amendment, they paraded signs that said "Emancipation." Along with the right to vote, the 19th Amendment was also a giant step in w...

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dollar General and Sam's Club are two institutions that blindly accept widespread poverty, misrepresentation of blacks, gendered traditions, and sexual infidelity. Sociology is trying to fully understand how our places like these are influenced by class, race, gender, and sexuality. Only through sci...

• Word Count: 1438
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School