The term glass ceiling is used to describe the situation in which qualified women aspire to fill high positions but are prevented from doing so by the invisible institutional barriers (256). ... Frequently, studies asking participants to assess a piece of work have found that it is evaluated less favorably when said to have been done by a women than when the same piece is attributed to a man (257). Although the tendency to favor a man's work is not always found, when differences in evaluation are found they tend to favor men. ... Society's distrust in women's abilities results f...

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Why should there be so many different damaging stereotypes that are associated with being gay or lesbian? Some names that are associated with being a gay man are that we are characterized as child molesters and sexual predators. On the other hand, lesbians have been rendered invisible, dismissed as asexual, and depicted as unfit parents. ... I believe that we, the gay community should not have to put up with all of these horrible stereotypes. ... Congress as a "legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Those who have any understanding at all of the Catholic Church realize that their position is one built on the sanctity of traditional matrimony and traditional values, where a man and a woman join lives to create a family. ... One particular young man, when faced with his own homosexuality, questioned how he could be a member of the Catholic Church and still be gay. ... Val was a straight young man, but not fully comfortable of his father lifestyle. ... The fact that our existence is not recognized, that we are socially and legally invisible, leaves us without a single legal right - althou...

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