I believe single-sex schools are beneficial because there are no distractions in the classroom. ... Summary The general idea of this article is to show the benefits of single-sex education for women that can promote equality. ... The article shows an objective tone when hard facts are brought up "SAT composite scores (Verbal plus Math) are 43 points higher for single-sex graduates within the independent school sector, and 28 points higher for single-sex alumnae in the Catholic school sector.... "Although both co-educational and single-sex schools tend to fail to recognize the complex...

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(reproductive.org/sex-selection/) The idea of demanding a certain gender is a controversial issue. ... They also find out the sex of the embryo before being transferred to the uterus and the womb. ... Gender selection and or sex selection "means choosing the sex of a future child, either before or after conception" (Center For Genetics and Society) Couples now a days want to select the gender of the baby. ... Others, have taken advantage of this valuable procedure in order to strictly determine and guarantee the sex of the fetus. ... I believe the gender sex selection process should be banned ...

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First, the difference between male and female can appear through their biological sex. ... Moreover, there is not only one single objective can determine the female and male sex. Male and Female sex is based on a set of characteristics and also have scientific proves. ... This pattern is a function initial dichotomy after male and female sex. ... The sex dichotomy has already created the boundaries and also the pressure of society label of your gender through your sex when you were born. ...

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For centuries, worldly cultures have considered women to be the lesser, subservient sex. ... To equalize salaries in the workforce, a solution that would be extremely beneficial is the enacting of a law to prohibit disproportionate salaries for equal work on the basis of sex. ... When privacy within military settings is concerned, the military should make arrangements to allow equal access for both sexes based upon that principle that every citizen should have the right to serve their country. ... Overall, the social roles of the past were substantially different; women were by far thought ...

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The Portrayal of Females in Society: Sex Sells You have to wonder who exactly Pepsi is trying to sell to when they put Britney Spears in a half shirt with suspenders and low-slung, ripped jeans in a commercial with Bob Dole at the end staring lewdly at the television screen. ... But Pepsi is just one of many advertisers who think that sex, or women dancing around in slinky clothing, sells their product. ... So why do these advertisers use women and sex to sell their product? ... The ads might appeal to a specific social class or to a specific sex. ...

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perspectives on sex and gender This essay will be looking at the various perspectives on sex and gender, it will then go on to compare and contrast these views and look at the relationships between them. ... In order to answer the question what is an individuals" sex and gender?... Evolutionary psychology perspectives believe that sexual selection can explain sex differences. ... 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 sister, there are either boy or girl birth card...

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The sexes are different because their brains are different. (Moir, 1991) In the past ten years, there have been many researches concerning what makes the sexes different. ... Until a few years ago, the difference between the sexes has always been attributed to social conditioning. ... They may provide the partial answer in the difference of the sexes but the answer lies in a more important part of our body - the brain. ... With most of the sex differences mentioned, it is evident that women are more superior to men in some of their characteristics. ...

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Pairs of 33-month old children were brought together in the same-sex or mixed-sex in a laboratory playroom, and the amount and kind of social behaviour directed more social behaviour, both positive and negative, to same sex playmates that opposite sex ones. ... Black (1989), hypothesised that social skills differ by sex whereas representational skills differ by age, and the skills related to choice of play topics are related to age and sex. ... Social skills were found to differ as a function of sex. ... This study examined how the variables of preschool children's sex, age, IQ, ...

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To Foucault, the controlling of sex and sexuality represents power. ... To Foucault, sex, gender, and sexuality are all products of society. In "Sexuality", Jeffrey Kripal explains just how important sex was to many different religious rituals; whether it was too much sex (ritual orgies), or the lack of sex (asceticism or celibacy), sex played an important role in religions throughout history. ... I recently saw a video on YouTube called "Sex Education in India" where the teacher tries to teach his students about sex, without even saying the word sex. ... A student confronts the teacher about...

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For example, in "The Challenge of Sexual Attraction within Heterosexuals and Cross-Sex Friendship," Panayotis Halatsis and Nicolas Christakis (2011), where they found that even though sex differences in friendship expectations have not been necessarily studied, females appear to hold higher expectations for same-sex friends than males do. Several studies provide evidence of sexual attraction between opposite-sex friends. ... With sexual attraction being such a strong factor in heterosexual friendships between the opposite-sex, it makes sense why platonic friendship may not be able to work as ...

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However, it is ones sex and gender that seem to be the most dominant. ... Further more, what does this mean to the 2 sex dichotomy that we believe in when there are births of intersex children giving evidence of more than 2 sexes? I have already addressed the social construction of gender and now I am furthering this argument by challenging that sex is also a technoscientific social construction to maintain this 2 sex dichotomy and social norm. ... How do we go about this and who holds the rights to determining another human's sex and gender? Through the medical management of intersex...

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Of all the stories collected, 79% reflected the woman at first feeling ambivalent towards having sex (Beres, 769). ... In all of the situations of ambivalence, however, whether the act of sex occurred or not, the females' ambivalence was resolved by both parties before engaging or not engaging in sex. ... In all of these cases, the man and woman were both on the same page, before having sex. ... It is said that men think about sex every seven seconds. However a study by Ohio State University for the Journal of Sex Research (January, 2012) found that men thought about sex about 19 times...

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However, there is not much substantial evidence to support many of the theories concerning sex differences in intelligence. ... This essay will consider some of the biological and environmental factors that may affect sex differences in both sexes based on previous research. ... The researchers found that there were sex differences between men and women in solving mental rotation tasks. ... Higher testosterone levels in men have also been linked to sex differences in spatial intelligence. ... Although this does not explain sex differences as such but only distinguishes general tendencies in so...

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Reproduction Sex and Genetics Life began about 3.6 billion years ago. ... Because of this humans link almost everything to sex, or symbolizing of sex. ... When they do have sex it is face to face like humans and unlike many other species. ... Although, even with hair, humans have differences between the sexes. ... Sex and Gender Humans usually never have trouble telling the sex of a person simply by looking at them. ...

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The depiction of men in advertising, according to my observations of several men-targeted magazines, is quite different in almost every regard; where women are seen as sex-objects and/or artificial, men are portrayed as confident, self-reliant, and successful. ...

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Leonard Sax addresses the topic of sex and the biological differences between males and females. ... Research on differences in sex is not new. ... One of the great misconceptions about sexes in the past has been on male versus female intelligence. ... This example of a universal sex difference is just one of many that Dr. ... The aspect of sex has not been taken advantage of in the classroom. ...

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First of all, hormones are the most significant determinant for sexes. ... This is the first step for differentiation between the sexes. ... As it seen, nature is creating a difference between the sexes. ... Even before birth, sexes behave different from each other. ... That is why both sex has different talents and abilities. ...

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A sex object is referred to a lot throughout his essay and this is a key point, as you will see. ... When you are just a nude picture, in a sense, you are a sex object. ... I believe that if you do decide to engage in that type of business, where you are posing nude for pictures, stripping, or selling your body for sex, then yes, you are a sex object. ... He also discussed the use of posing nude and that it makes you a sex object. ... A sex object may be a person who poses nude to some people, but to others it could just be perfectly fine. ...

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According to Judith Butler "[i]f gender is the cultural meanings that the sexed body assumes, then a gender cannot be said to follow from a sex in any one way" (6). ... We find that Winterson plays with the ambiguity of desire, sex and gender as a parallel of male and female. ... And also, we have to separate sex, gender and body, too. ... Butler rejects the idea of the body presupposing the sex, and this is the issue that Winterson rejects too. ... This statement shows the idea that a sexed body does not equal the identity of this person. ...

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We acknowledge the differences between the sexes, but who can say that one is better than the other? ... Feminists recognized this and pushed for equality within the sexes. ... This can be seen as the most primitive notions of the sexes; the woman is after security and the man is after sex. ... Career women have also been big supporters of the equality of the sexes. ... Feminism's goal was to establish equality amongst the sexes. ...

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American governmental and state laws which imply gender are written on the principle that there are two sexes: male or female. ... This is a person who chooses to live full time as member of the opposite sex. ... This can include hormone treatment, sex reassignment surgery, cosmetic surgery and much more. ... Intersex individuals are those with physical or hormonal attributes of both sexes. ... Persons whose gender identities are ambiguous, transitional, or androgynous challenge the traditional sexual orientation categories of attraction to "same sex" or "opposite sex....

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Title IX pushed for equal opportunity between the sexes within the classroom in the 1970s. ... During the 1960s, girls were prominently seen to be girly, weaker, or the "fairer" sex; they were supposed to illuminate daintiness. ... Inequality amongst the sexes came to focus quite clear here, but it was not the first time. ... She sparked the revolution of equality amongst the sexes in the 1960s. ... The regulations set the requirements for the universities and they had to follow, "(1) Grant scholarships to both sexes proportionately to the number of male and female athletes; ...

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There is very little noise in the advert and the imagery is very clearly suggestive of the act of oral sex. In this way, Burger King is non-verbally implying that the pleasure from eating their sub-sandwich is equal to that of oral sex. ... This is made even more obvious by the fact that oral sex as depicted in the advertisement, serves only to pleasure the male. ... It is possible to get your message across without the sex sells mentality although more and more, this is becoming a rare occurrence. ... The sex sells mentality is a cheap advertising trick that while effective is only so due to ...

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Gender refers to the psychological, social and cultural differences between males and females; sex therefore is the physiological and anatomical differences between the male and female bodies. Most socio-biologists believe that the differences in sex account for the differences in the thinking and behaviour of men and women. ... From the moment one is born depending on sex s/he is tagged, labelled with either a pink or blue band, a visual indicator of biological sex, which arguably will determine how every person who comes into contact with the child, will interact with them. ... One cannot de...

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The sex gender system is "the set of rules that each company uses to transform biological sexuality into the cultural product. Each culture has its system whereby that normalized sex." ... There are taboos about sex, food, and clothing. ... If we focus on taboos about women, we do have different concepts and ideas based on sex, menstruation or postpartum. ... But the most interesting facts are that talking about sex is a taboo. ...

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