We hypothesized that if we randomly chose two males and two females from each grade level, and they were given a set of instructions to follow while being videotaped, then the sophomore males would follow directions better than the others tested. ... From there, they could start the experiment. ... She answered the first three questions, then skimmed the instructions. ... None of the students even started to do the activities. ... We were surprised to find out that once the results were totaled, 62 percent of the males did not follow the instructions, while 62 percent of the females did....

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Women in Combat Today there are many women who serve their county by participating in the armed forces. ... If women are willing and able to put themselves in the situation of combat and are able to pass the same tests men have to pass then there is no reason why they should be excluded from doing what they think they want to do. ... German troops were quoted saying that they were more afraid of the female pilots then the male pilots. ... Except for one woman, all were civilians and none had previously had such a strenuous physical routine. ... Although there are many reasons and evidence th...

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We then perceive ourselves as either gender appropriate or abnormal. ... Their overall goal was to find a man and then have a family. ... There were many reflections of the ideas of the 1950's in the media. ... People were forced to pretend to be someone they were not. ... None of them are unattractive or overweight. ...

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Finally, I believe that none of them would ever consider removing affirmative action because they benefit so much from it. ... These people I targeted were majority college students ranging from age eighteen to twenty seven. ... None of the people I asked refused to take the survey. ... If it takes affirmative action to ensure that minorities are represented, then let it be. ... Thus, even if every unemployed minority worker were to take a White workers job then less than 2 percent of Whites would be affected. ...

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Throughout history, there has been strict gender roles set in place for people to follow. During Shakespearean times, women were considered the weaker sex, emotionally and physically. Women were expected to always listen and obey their husbands and never make the rules. ... While Macbeth knows that murder must occur in order for him to become King, he,"dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none (I, VII, 47-48)." ... Lady Macbeth goes as far to tell Macbeth,"When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the ma...

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Either it was bad or good there was always something different. ... In the morning we see many women going to their office, and then in the afternoon running in order to be at home early to prepare the food for the children and the husband. ... Women and people generally decided to take action and ask for their rights only when they saw that weren't fighting alone but there were many others who embrace the same aspect. ... » However, they didn't do anything because they were afraid to give this fight alone. ... The way is still long and there must be done many fights in order ...

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The Symbolic Internationalist Perspective integrates in all of these inequalities and then symbolically labels women. ... Firstly, there should be more daycare centers to help working mothers. ... The existence of gender bias within higher education gained national attention in 2005 when then-president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, speaking at a conference, provided three possible reasons as to why women were underrepresented in science and engineering fields. ... Sexual harassment is nearly impossible to define, and legislating against it creates gender differences where none ne...

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Wade where women were granted the option of first term abortions. ... There is a famous quote from the television show Friends where the character Rachel tells her partner, "No uterus, no opinion" (Kelly). ... So basically, for me, it goes more like this: If it's not YOUR uterus, it's none of your f****** business" (proabortion5eva). ... Quindlen says, "Californians were willing to ignore Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged career as a serial sexual bigot" (Quindlen 2). ... " Regardless of gender, if your path to leadership is diverted by an opinionat...

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a) Essentials for Proper Flowering of a Genius Woolf believed there is a deep connection between living conditions and flowering of a genius. ... To explore this fact, Woolf turns to her imagination and tells us a story about Shakespeare's (fictional) sister, Judith, who has all of Shakespeare's genius but none of his opportunities. She concludes that she would end up pregnant and then kill herself without having written a word. ... - That girls were less likely to do creative writing in Shakespeare's society... That women were forbidden from acting on the public stages in Sha...

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Women were told to stay within their roles as a housewife and caregiver; none could rise up against the oppressive ways they had come to know. While history has shown that there were those who rose up and fought against oppression with blood, few women did so in the colonial period. There were those in the new world who fought the oppressive ways of society by proving that the pen is much mightier than the sword. ... (Bradstreet 549) This line in particular highlights her radical views; she looks honestly at her own abilities and then notes that the culture she lives in will disregard her succ...

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Another annoyance was when her grandmother was telling her she girls do not slam doors, girls keep their knees together and don"t ask questions about things that are "none of girls business." (pg 457) Then she replied by saying " I continued to slam doors and sit as waywardly as possible, thinking that by measures I kept myself free." ... She would do a chore for her mother and then run off before she could tell her to do anything else. ... She felt that the only thing her mother talked about were things that were unimportant to her. ... She is from a time when there were even stricter rules...

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In this study the specimens were divided into three developmental states: 30-34 days, 45-58 days, and 64 days to birth. It was found that the gonads of the 30-34 day old embryos were undifferentiated. ... The testes and the ovaries became recognizable and the Wolffian and Mullerian ducts were present. ... Their results showed that the fetuses of both genders that were exposed to the anti-androgens still retained prominent phalluses[2]. ... There would have to be a physiological reason that producing more ova would be less favorable. ...

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(ii) Participants Taking into consideration client confidentiality none of the children who participated in this field research will be named. ... There were seven different stations where the children could choose to play, the dolls house, the play dough table, the drawing table, luna park, cars on play mat, the shop and the wooden bricks. ... There were two girls and one boy playing here, one of the girls was taking the furniture out of the house and setting it on the garden while the boy was trying to pull out the trees which were attached to the house. ... There was one boy and one gir...

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Although there is a common goal between them, there are varying views. ... Radical feminism surfaced in the 1960s when the main issues tackled were domestic restrictions and workplace discrimination. ... Then when asked why there aren't as many women in STEM field's people think it's because of the difficulty of the job. ... As long as science and technology related fields are portrayed as a "Man's Job" then there will be a need for equality. ... Although none of my biases that I learned about from taking the test at Project Implicit were severe I still found it ...

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Or women wearing make-up instead of none and men being bare faced. ... People were in same sex relationships and did not have to be concerned about harm happening to them. Men were still very much the warrior class in that time and they wore their hair down their backs. ... Butler states "So there are institutional powers like psychiatric normalization and there are informal kinds of practices like bullying which try to keep us in our gendered place.... The verse from the book of Jeremiah "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you..." ...

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Or women wearing make-up instead of none and men being bare faced. ... People were in same sex relationships and did not have to be concerned about harm happening to them. Men were still very much the warrior class in that time and they wore their hair down their backs. ... Butler states "So there are institutional powers like psychiatric normalization and there are informal kinds of practices like bullying which try to keep us in our gendered place.... The verse from the book of Jeremiah "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you. . ." ...

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Chopin uses her characters to rebel against this strictness; her characters are passionate and unconventional women but none of them rebels as openly as Edna does. ... She paints her portrait because "Never had that lady seemed a more tempting subject at that moment, seated there like some sensuous Madonna, with the gleam of the fading day enriching her splendid color-. ... In a way, I think Chopin intentionally exagerates Edna's selfish behavior to make her point that feminist ideas were good, but that women were not ready to be on their own. ... If Edna's break with her husband ...

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It seems like a simple question but there are so many things that are hidden behind this question that have been hidden there for most of the time we have been on earth. ... As infants, girls tend to be able to pay attention longer than boys, while boys tend to pay attention to something for a short amount of time but they are more actively engaged in the activity then girls are (1996, p. 16). ... The problem was that they were to go hunting for mammoth but they had to put together a plan on how they were going to do this. The differences between the two groups were astonishing. ... All of ...

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There has long been an ongoing debate as to witch gender differences in behavior and personality are due to innate personality, biology, physiology, cultural and social factors. ... " And when she asked questions the grandmother would reply "That's none of a girls business.... Once the execution of Mack happens the narrator says her legs were shaky then immediately wants to look for new born kittens in the barn, as if to cleanse her visual palate of what she had just watched. ... " as if he wants to be a part of what then men did to Mack. ... Laird then points out that she ...

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Is it the way they look, the way they dress, or it could be many things all put together, or is it none of the above? ... If family members have no regard for keeping the other members of the family on the right path to being a good person, then what will they become. ... If the husbands were doing theirjob? ... But eventually they will get there own friends and make there own decisions, this also leads to a person's identity. ... If a person learns to treat others with respect and kindness as they were young, they may keep it with them as they turn into adults. ...

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Is it the way they look, the way they dress, or it could be many things all put together, or is it none of the above? ... If family members have no regard for keeping the other members of the family on the right path to being a good person, then what will they become. ... If the husbands were doing their "job" in the women would not be cheating on them. ... But eventually they will get there own friends and make there own decisions, this also leads to a person's identity. ... If a person learns to treat others with respect and kindness as they were young, they may keep it with them as the...

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Woolf 1912-1941 p.144) The protagonist in these novels were spawned from Woolf's personal experiences with female repression and mental illness. ... There is a direct relationship between mental illness and the feminism in Woolf's works. ... The death of the mother and the onset of affliction is Woolf's contention that without feminism there will be unrest and disaster, not equality. 3 Mrs. ... Dalloway and portray what she thought were male and female perspectives. ... Woolf strove for universality with the sexual duality of her characters, women's liberty and tr...

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Cohen writes, ""Monsters are never created ex nihilo but through a process of fragmentation and recombination in which elements are extracted 'from various forms' and then assembled as the monster" (11). ... If she be black, and thereto have a wit,/She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit She never yet was foolish that was fair;/For even her folly help'd her to an heir There's none so foul and foolish thereunto,/But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do. (2.1.127-140) Both Desdemona and Emilia engage in this banter with Igao, making inqui...

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Although schoolgirls during the period were encouraged to read and become educated at a basic level, these endeavors were not intended to produce women in the intellectual sphere. ... There, she expresses the book/child as fatherless because she is its sole creator. ... Poem 199 states: "This being comfort "then That other kind "was pain " But why compare? ... Stop there!... By stating, "Stop there!...

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