They have become important in life from birth, and society continues to push these gender roles. ... As children we learn and adapt to specific gender roles, and as we grow they become more evident and more important to our role in a society. ... I intend to address issues such as gender roles, gender in the workplace, and the discrimination that is placed on women. ... Gender roles tell us we are supposed to be submissive, quiet, and tender hearted. ... The gender roles date back to the hunting and gathering societies of long ago. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A woman holds a lot of roles in her society. ... Talking about gender is talking about roles which brought based on sex distiction between male and female. ... Women need to realise about the role they take. ... Secondly, women should realise how much influencing is her role in the community's life. ... Women themselves need to realise, make up their minds on the role they should take. ...

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Women Gender, and Culture In todays society most people think that gender inequality is no longer an issue. ... Overall, the rights and status of women have improved considerably in the last century; however, gender equality has recently been threatened within the last decade. ... Women who carefully follow their expected roles may never recognize sexism as an oppressive force in their life. I would argue that the social pressure women must endure if they do not conform to their expected role is unfair. ... Now the real difficulty is upon us: subtle acts of sexism and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It has been said that each person plays his or her own role in society. ... The role of the woman was as the homemaker; she was responsible for affairs of the home and the well-being of the family. These roles have since changed. In the modern society, man and woman both play the roles of the caretaker and the homemaker. ... Women have long-fought for gender equality, in respect to, work, wages, salary, and opportunities, among other issues. ...

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She plays with the idea of role swapping in "The Carnival of Venice" and the conformity required by western society. ... Written after the feminist movement of the sixties, both poems suggest that here has been little progress and development in the construction of women and gender roles as well as loss of identity. ... Another gendered reading could suggest that the change was metaphorical. ... In "The Carnival of Venice" the roles of man and woman are reversed. ... The construction of gender roles and the loss of identity are issues that are often addressed by Gwen Harwood. ...

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Now, think about how it would feel to be discriminated against because of your skin color or gender. ... Discrimination is present in many aspects of life, but I will concentrate on its role in education. ... What this definition means is that any type of favoritism or bias for a person or persons of a certain gender or a particluar race is considered discrimination. ... A student can be rejected a chance to participate in a certain class or activity because of their gender or skin color. ... I believe that the previous quote sums up this argument of racial and gender inequality in today&#...

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• Grade Level: High School

Gender roles are defined by attitudes that a society links to each sex. ... In today's society, men and women are divided into two stereotypical gender-roles; the feminine code and the masculine code. ... Both the County Attorney and Hale's comments about women show the author's disapproval of gender-role stereotypes. ... The actions of various characters also contribute to conveying gender-role stereotypes. ... In writing this play, Glaspell changes the concept of gender-role stereotypes to show that women should be more rebellious in a male-dominated society....

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• Grade Level: High School

Critically examine recent theories of Gender How do we begin to examine recent theories of Gender. ... Alleged differences in emotional level, sex-role programming, or personality type, are for the gender theorist, are unrelated to biology & can't be presumed to be studied merely by analyzing variations in biological sex. ... Gender is a more complicated concept then sex: gender theorists claim the two cannot be equated. ... The feminist engagement with theories of patriarchy criticised pre-existing theoretical positions and their ideological use, tracing theoretical pro...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Women: Role in Society The world today has changed in many aspects of gender related life style. ... Feminism has a great impact on the gender role in our society. ... All these titles focus on the relationship of gender. ... To succeed the new leadership role is to adopt the same ability as men. ... It returns to golden age of traditional sex roles and sexual values. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gender stereotypes are the ideas of the society about the rights of both sexes. ... As sociology defines the roots of gender stereotypes, as people strongly define their gender identity (Ibraeva 2003:12). Gender identity is the conception of people about themselves in defining their gender. ... Because of the cultural principals and historical background the gender identity in our society sharply shapes the gender roles. ... For more understanding the routine of the gender stratification there is an explanation in sociology of how we are got to the level of high gender identity. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

explores the restricted societal roles of both Jane and John. ... Repression generated by social gender roles hinders men and women from acquiring self-individuation. ... As a result of societal gender roles men and women have been restrained from achieving self-individuation. ... On the other hand, John is taken seriously by society because he is a man with authority; however, his femininity still is restricted by societal gender roles. Ultimately, for a true sense of fulfillment to be reached, society must accept the roles of its? ...

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Moreover, the gender inequality Portia faces, remains an influential issue in the modern society as well as it was in Shakespearian time. ... Furthermore, the values and ideas of gender equality displayed, prevail significant in the modern society. ... It was only expected that men had the capacity to handle such jobs and it was believed that women weren't intelligent enough to take on such roles. ... Feministic values are highly prominent in the play and the role that Portia played, highlights the perseverance, strength and intelligence of women. ... The values and ideas of gender equali...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to Ian Hacking, a person's gender is an essential element of a person's being; therefore gender is not inevitable only in the present state of affairs. Essentialism basically emphasizes roles within genders, believing that what is socially acceptable, is the real true essence of things. ... Though the Industrial Revolution and the feminist movement were beginning to emerge in the late 1800s, American women's roles were absolutely those of devoted wives and mothers, spending their days caring for their children, performing domestic duties, and ensuring the happiness o...

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The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th century in the novel, The Color Purple and how these can be related to postcolonial feminist criticism. ... Introduction "A male dominated society of the early twentieth century in America defined gender roles which each individual would subscribe to. ... The role of woman was confined to the walls of her house with woman not having a voice of their own. ... The main focus however, will be on the protagonist's subordination and repres...

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• Grade Level: High School

The role of women in society is very different today compared to the role of women in Victorian society, in the 19th Century. ... In Britain today women stand side by side with men, in the struggle for Independence, and are also playing a key role in the search for a lasting peace and consolidated democracy for the country. ... Tom asserts his superiority as a male and although they have had a similar view of the future (with Maggie as housekeeper to Tom) his assumption of the role of protector with the power to "punish her when she did wrong" differs wildly from hers, where she will assume a...

• Word Count: 1370
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Primary education was provided to women as a symbol of gender equality. ... Some conservatives describe them as a group of psychopathic people who breaks societal gender norms. ... According to social roles of women, feminists clearly promote the idea of gender equality that women have rights as much as men have. ... Though women in Thailand are provided with high degree of freedom, "gender inequality still manifests itself in violence, trafficking, stereotypical attitudes to employment and gender-related roles.... Thailand has to deal with a great number of inequalities in terms of incom...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This left them with an inadequate system of analysis when having to consider race and gender. ... It makes negative any thought that can lead to a dominant role in society. Gender equality aims to achieve a genuine balance between men and women by respecting human rights. ... Focusing on the damaging effects of gender-role socialization, it seeks to address the inequalities in educational and career opportunities. ... To get a complete understanding, class, race and gender have to be examined in conjunction with each other. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Two feature long cartoons, Snow White (1937) and Mulan (1999), are good examples where a female character takes the central role, Snow White being from the first half of the 20th century and Mulan from modern times. ... In many ways they are similar to Snow White and became examples of how to act, what to do, and what was accepted and expected as a role model or just a woman. ... The one non-absent mother is Mulan's, but she only plays an inoperative role in the story and poses no threat to her daughter's autonomy. I would therefore argue that Disney has not moved with the times, if...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is known as the college gender gap, referring to the differences between women and men in higher education enrollment. ... Yet, in the last 50 years perceptions of gender roles within a marriage have changed. ... This change in the gender roles of marriage is changing what women can do with their lives. ... This was the first step in reversing the college gender gap. ... The college gender gap has reversed, women now exceeding men in undergraduate enrollments, earning 60% of bachelors degrees. ...

• Word Count: 977
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The role of women in society is very different today compared to the role of women in Victorian society, in the 19th Century. ... In Britain today women stand side by side with men, in the struggle for Independence, and are playing a key role in the search for a lasting peace and consolidated democracy for the country. ... Tom asserts his superiority as a male and although they have had a similar view of the future (with Maggie as housekeeper to Tom) his assumption of the role of protector with the power to "punish her when she did wrong" differs wildly from hers, where she will assume a conv...

• Word Count: 1369
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Feminists assume that women are not treated equally to men, and that women are disadvantaged in comparison to the other gender. ... Mary Wollstonecraft encouraged the social and moral equality of different genders. ... The two most important topics of this feminist wave were the inequality of the gender. ... In this wave, the feminists focus on ideas such as abolishing gender role expectations, defending sex work, reproductive rights....

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• Grade Level: High School

At this point, it could be briefly said that these two genders steadily represent and argue about democracy in different dimensions. ... Feminists claim that the explanation of democracy must concern not only civil and political right, but also class, gender and race structures. ... Feminist theories claim that women are oppressed in a multiplicity of ways that depend on culture, class, and race as well as on gender. ... As drawing attention to a gendered division of labour, gendered constructs such as a male "breadwinner" and women who are primarily "housewife" -central to modern western ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Within this victim/perpetrator framework, the roles of rape victims and perpetrators are simultaneously relational and fixed. ... At the same time, if a party is not recognizable as a perpetrator because he or she fails to conform to the behavior and motivations expected of that role, then there is no recognizable rape. ... "Throughout this article I use the term 'victim' to describe that role in the context of the victim/perpetrator framework." ... Both terms are problematic in that each frames that role according to implicit assumptions about agency and harm. ... Radical feminists ...

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Once the war began in 1954, an opportunity for gender equality opened up. ... They would also publish publications about strong women role models in hopes that they would gain females to join. ... However, most of them performed roles that were usually seen as "feminine" such as nursing, cooking, and cleaning. ... The French soon began to realize the crucial role that women played in the war for independence. ... It stated that gender equality was guaranteed by law. ...

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Theoretically, gender separates authors in no more of a respect than do the author's birthstone or favorite color. ... And an appeal to both genders is necessary for achieving literary greatness. ... Along with prejudice against class, race, color, and religion came by way of gender. ... we are compelled to examine systems of domination and our role in their maintenance and perpetuation.? ... The notion of gender equity in literature is being achieved through sacrifices on the authors? ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate