... established in 1969 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The incident that caused this law to take effect was one in which several high school students wore black armbands to school in order to protest against the Vietnam War. This was considered offensive, and the Court decided that schools may limit the students ... serves to humiliate females for having bodies" (Why Yoga Pants Are Dangerous to Today's Youth). She also mentioned that when she attended Skyview High School, she was constantly sexually harassed by the male students no matter what type of clothing she was wearing. In her blog post o...

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... is the right thing to do" (p.98) Boys on Girl Teams, Girls on Boy Teams Generally speaking, I think most would agree that in high school sports, it's usually a girl that wants to play on the boys' team and not the other way around. This is because girls have historically been ... For example, there are safety issues that need to be considered when a girl is playing in a sport otherwise dominated by boys. Genetically and physically speaking, high school boys and girls are not built the same and thus there must be exceptions. For example, "issues of safety may dictate that a girl does not...

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... winkte by the Bwaanag" (153). The Ojibwe saw masculinity in a woman as desirable. Mashkiigikwe was one of Kapshaw's wives, and is hunting when Father Damien meets her. She was very masculine, "Mashkiigikwe's legs were like oak fence posts and her neck, solid, was packed with a power that surged up ... it up on purpose to unnerve and distract her" (232). The Objiwe had much different gender borders than that of the society that Father Damien came from. Erdrich makes the Ojibwe borders acceptable to us, again making the reader uncomfortable. The way in which Erdrich portrays the Ojibwe/ ....

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... . In the nineties, there was a study done on women's basketball. The study wanted to see how the coverage of women's basketball from the University of Connecticut, would affect the participation of high school girl's basketball. The results were very satisfactory, it showed that there was an increase in participation in girl's high school basketball team, and also it showed that the attitudes of these girls ... changed as well. Girls felt more motivated and driven to go and play basketball, seeing the coverage ... of college level basketball reminded them of the potential that they poss...

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... . In the nineties, there was a study done on women's basketball. The study wanted to see how the coverage of women's basketball from the University of Connecticut, would affect the participation of high school girl's basketball. The results were very satisfactory, it showed that there was an increase in participation in girl's high school basketball team, and also it showed that the attitudes of these girls ... changed as well. Girls felt more motivated and driven to go and play basketball, seeing the coverage ... of college level basketball reminded them of the potential that they poss...

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... is that it requires universities to offer identical programs for both males and females. For example, if there is a men's basketball there must also be a women's basketball team. However, this is not the case. The regulation states that the number of male and female teams provided must be determined ... by the population at the school. For example, if forty percent of the population is female then forty percent of the athletic ... as ticket sales, jersey sales and other promotional products often cause the large discrepancy between male and female sports. For example, for the collegiate...

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... department is that the women's volleyball team cannot take off their shirts in the gym. I cannot count the number of times I have seen the male basketball players play with their shirts off; there is not a rule against it except in a game during their season. Furthermore, as exemplified in "Fiero," women ... surely trying to shed the stereotypes. In the building that I coached the girls in, there were two gyms. In one gym, boys were playing basketball and in the other gym, we held the volleyball clinic. The boys were loud and rowdy, while in our gym, we had to threaten the ... men and ...

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... boys at sport". Such ideals are learnt in later life as shall be shown by this essay. Up in the senior section of the school the situation was dramatically different to that which I had just witnessed. As soon was I arrived in the senior section I came across a ... basketball where there was any form of female presence and even then they were in an absolute minority. This leads one to the conclusion (without sufficient evidence) that unease of the opposite sex is a developed/learned thought process, as the younger children displayed no prejudice to the opposite sex. An interesting compar...

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... the society, femininity and masculinity are tightly bound to gender. Men are supposed to be masculine. They are expected to be strong, rough, to have high stamina. They are not supposed to wear skirts(the Scots are an exception) but trousers, and should avoid colors like pink and violet. These are ... we accept gender stereotyping and try to fit in the rigid models of feminine and masculine. For example, women athletes and especially tennis players and basketball players are afraid of losing their femininity. These sports are famous for the large number of gay players that are involved. B...

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... are just two of the many examples of male athletes having their athletic opportunities ripped away from them, forcing them to either transfer to another school or abandon the sport that they love. Some of these athletes are on scholarship, some are not. Since 1972, 170 men's wrestling programs ... a regulated bureaucracy, forcing schools to have an equal proportion of male and female athletes to male and female students enrolled in the school. So, say if a school has 40% males and 60% females, under Title IX they would be required to have 40% male athletes in their athletic programs ... ...

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... wage they can command from an employer. For example, someone with a college diploma can generally command a higher wage than someone who has left school with just a general equivalency diploma. The gender discrimination argument states that women are either forced into lower paid jobs or are simply paid less ... , and hence lose touch with their career, which makes them less employable. Though this factor is less significant today, with more pre-school services and at cheaper prices, it still affects wage rates. Although women make up 51 percent of the population and earn 56 percent of .....

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... Federal financial assistance. Title IX was approved with little opposition in 1972. After Title IX passed, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and high school administrators were certain that boy's sports would begin to downfall if girl's sports had to be funded equally and if girl's had to be ... or just not dealt with. In 1994 there was an amendment made to correct this problem to the Elementary and Secondary School Act. Colleges, universities and high schools were now forced to publish their expenses on male sports and female sports. This comparison of expenditures reve...

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... and it's desires). Athletics is another type of legitimation that reinforces society's definition of masculinity. Boys watch how their fathers dote and fawn over 'the game', whether it is football, basketball, or any other sport that epitomizes masculinity. Children notice that the 'men' on TV impress dad and they want to be like that. This initial reinforcer is a major impetus for ... that there is a pervasive fear among all males that the worst possible insult is to be labeled a female. As boys grow older, their bodies develop and they enter junior high and high school. At this point ...

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... can see McComas filled to the brim with both men and women running, lifting, and sweating and is busy during all hours of the day. From basketball courts and pools to weight rooms and almost an obnoxious amount of aerobic machines, it is not an overstatement to say McComas has it all but underneath ... are rows of large smudge free glass windows; the first looking down onto a large pool and the other two allowing passerby's to peer into the two basketball courts. One of the reasons many students prefer to hang out and go to the gym at McComas is because of how nice the building is in ......

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... however, three things needed to be done. First, a school must provide the athletic opportunities in which the students are most interested. If not as many men/women come out for the volleyball team as do for the basketball team, the volleyball team will most likely lose funding. Second, ... to receive their funding on the basis of a male to female ratio. Therefore, if there are forty-percent men and sixty-percent women in a school, then they shall receive assistance accordingly. Since the institution of this document, it has come under much scrutiny and has undergone various changes. In ...

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... appear that the principles of equal opportunities were not equally balanced. It was discovered that in the 11 plus examination to determine the type of secondary school a child went to, females achieved higher scores than males - a fact that could have resulted in more girls obtaining places at grammar schools "highly ... joint initiative was launched - " Fair play for women" (DFEE 1996) which aimed to help women achieve their full potential by providing out of school services, childcare and training advice which would enable women to take up Further Education and Vocational courses. Howe...

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... gender explicit sports. For example, football has the highest budget of male sports compared to women sports whose highest budget team is basketball. That being said, football spends about an average of $100,000 per year where the women basketball teams has an expense of about $38,7033 (Castaneda, Katsinas, and Hardy 2008, p.95). This shows the financial unfairness found in collegiate ... who claim to have fairness between all sports. However, Hoeber reports on these studies and states that inequality was easily found. It is stated that both the men and women's basketball team had the s...

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... walks into a department store and asks to see the little girl's section. The person is almost instantly bombarded by pinks, purples, and light pastel greens. Once a girl is of school age and is allowed to choose her own clothes, she will mostly gear toward the same exact color. All of the things a child is exposed to now is influenced by ... is if the child is only influenced to act in a specific way, with no exceptions. I was fortunate to have a very balanced childhood. I was taken both to ballet classes and basketball games. The children whose families are very traditional might also t...

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... events and student involvement. There are mixers, dances, and fundraisers that the students participate in together. Mixers are highly encouraged for students to attend, and provide structured interaction between high school students. This provides a great way for students to communicate and get to know each other in a pressure free environment. Communication skills are learned more through ones' home and ... activities that are coed and support social development, which helps develop relationships for the kids. Then they can maintain those relationships until high school and throughou...

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... one boy and one girl, I'll show what "proper" behavior is costing our kids. Take a girl she is ten years old and enjoys playing outside: swimming, running, hiking, basketball etc. Her clothes are a culmination of t-shirts, shorts, and jeans. She finds herself ridiculed and told she is just trying to "act" like a boy. She may be told ... ...

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... one boy and one girl, I'll show what "proper" behavior is costing our kids. Take a girl she is ten years old and enjoys playing outside: swimming, running, hiking, basketball etc. Her clothes are a culmination of t-shirts, shorts, and jeans. She finds herself ridiculed and told she is just trying to "act" like a boy. She may be told ... ...

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... to Risman, Sex-role theory is known as infants' socialization will influence their later behavior. For instance, in society, all the boys need to play all the sports such as basketball, soccer and rugby, etc ; and they cannot sit around and are uncompetitive. On the other sides, girls need to take care of their houses, and need to be gentleness and ... ...

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... jumpsuit with a football or a baseball glove on it. The baby girl may wear a bow in their hair and flowered pajamas. As the boy begins to grow, he is given a miniature basketball and a hoop to play with. The girl is given dolls an d doll clothes to dress them up in. Even going further, eventually the boy may play with Legos and Lincoln ... ...

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... jumpsuit with a football or a baseball glove on it. The baby girl may wear a bow in their hair and flowered pajamas. As the boy begins to grow, he is given a miniature basketball and a hoop to play with. The girl is given dolls an d doll clothes to dress them up in. Even going further, eventually the boy may play with Legos and Lincoln ... ...

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... for single-sex graduates within the independent school sector, and 28 points higher for single-sex alumnae in the Catholic school sector." This research also analyzes how the types of schooling affect women's view of college, girls from single-sex high schools tend to value colleges based ... 'above average' or in the 'highest 10 percent' with regard to intellectual self-confidence, compared to 54 percent of their independent coeducational school counterparts" (Sax 2009). Part V. Critical Reading and Analysis of Article B 1. Tone The article has three distinctive tones: Formal,...

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