The study adopted a focus group methodology with fifteen groups of 7-9 participants, all university students (n=133). ... Using the qualitative methodology of focus groups, this study aims to encourage participants to discuss their views on gender stereotypes in a relaxed, open environment. ... Since the majority of Psychology students were female, the students were pre-assigned to their groups to evenly distribute the male participants (at least one per group) thereby reducing the effects of gender bias in the results. ... She began the session by using an "ice-breaker" – a ge...

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This issue not only involve students, but also teachers, and school personnel. ... Students should be enforced to have contact, communication and interact with teachers and classmates. They also should encouraged participate in all school activities like sports, arts, challenges, debates and interactive activities. ... Students needs to learn to love, appreciate and respect each other. ... Once this attacked minority (discriminated students) performance should improve. ...

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In this common core there should be no sectioning of students by vocational aim or social position. ... The students' aptitudes, abilities, and expectations in life should be assessed and considered by wise and well-trained counselors who should then give the students and their parents their honest and frank advice. This program can help students to choose a major that suites their abilities and ambitious, because some students enter majors that don't suit their abilities due to the prestige, parents involvement, or wrong ideas about the major itself. ... There are also many criteri...

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This case was about a white male student that was rejected by medical school because they had to reserve fifteen spots for minorities. That white male student, Alan Bakke, also had higher exam scores than some of the minority applicants... Second, it encourages women and minorities to be lazy. ... They have an advantage over other students, especially the white male. ... This will make employees and students more confident of their position and how they got it. ...

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Under this policy, colleges have been encouraged to take race and ethnicity into account for their admissions process. ... In addition, affirmative action helps colleges obtain a diverse student body, which supposedly has many educational benefits. The diversity helps prepare students for the future through exposure to various different cultures. ... "Undoubtedly[,] there are other ways to better the education of law students aside from ensuring that the student body contains a critical mass of underrepresented minority students. ... Although a diverse student body may produce some positive q...

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An example of this would be what white and black college students ask and how a black student may sarcastically answer. ... It is not a student's job to educate other students on the topic of race. It is the student's job to obtain an education. ... "Diversity & Community Day was designed to encourage students to engage in the understanding, accepting and valuing of diverse backgrounds, " stated service learning coordinator Alyssa Friendly. ... Learning about diversity helps to understand, accept and encourage it within a community. ...

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This new freedom has allowed and encouraged women to lead healthier lifestyles by increasing their awareness of exercise, competition, and the idea of being physically fit. ... People who oppose Title IX believe that it is not fair because even though interest and participation in women's sports has blossomed since Congress passed the amendment in 1972, it still cannot compare to the extent at which males are involved in sports, simply because men's sports have had time to grow and participation has always been encouraged. ... In the same respect, Author Kat...

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However, this proposition could have served as motivation to minority students. ... These boosts often do not help the minority student in the long run as Source C points out, stating, "Some minority students who get into a top school with the help of affirmative action might actually be better served by attending a less elite institution to which they could gain admission with less of a boost or no boost at all. " The removal of these boosts and benefits presented to minorities might encourage some to take their schoolwork more seriously and actively compete for acceptance into top-tier col...

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For example a school may offer acceptance to 30% of African American students, 25% of Hispanic students and only 10% to Oriental students, even if that means lowering the standards. ... As Obama did, many students of color hold an advantage in admittance because of the color of their skin. ... For example, because historically African Americans were only able to hold lets say 5% of the student body regardless of their academic standing, would it be fair now to only allow 5% of white's admittance. ... This is where supporters of affirmative action and non-supporters agree that something m...

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Affirmative action programs encouraging gender equality in academia must be improved. ... Turner claims that affirmative action programs that recruit black students contribute to "the significant number of black students dropping and failing out of colleges that they are unprepared to academically complete [Tur03].... Minority students are further disadvantaged when applying to college, because standardized test scores are biased against them. ... Affirmative action admission programs should be maintained, in order to account for the disadvantages that minority students are facing. Most ...

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It amazes me that discrimination and racism carries on today, especially among such younger generations such as college students. ... Although it was the first time a sorority had been accused of racial discrimination, one student made the comment thatAlpha Gamma Delta probably aren't the only ones who do it? ... According to Richard Mullendore, vice president of student affairs, few African American students choose to participate in membership recruitment, or rush, which shepherds participants from one predominantly white sorority to another? ... There were many in the fraternity who enc...

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The policy intended to benefit minorities makes it obvious that they are at a disadvantage; the policy not only permits but also encourages others to think less of them, regardless of anything other than the fact that they know they are of a different race. ... The percentage of white students accepted by Berkeley totaled 36.8 percent. Of the 36.8 percent white students accepted, 47.9 percent were accepted on academic merit alone". ... "The average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1142. The average grade point average for an accepted African-Ame...

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Affirmative action allows it and encourages it. ... More specifically, "The university's law school is the defendant in a reverse discrimination class-action lawsuit over the practice of admitting minority students with lower grades and test scores than whites" (Internet). ...

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After responding to her, she leads you to a room which has six other prospective students. ... Later on that day, you are informed that the other six people who were in the waiting room with you were asked to be students at that institution. ... A student can be rejected a chance to participate in a certain class or activity because of their gender or skin color. In Rich's essay, she tries to encourage the crowd, to which she is speaking, by saying how important it is to know that women are just as good as men and by telling them that they "[have] enormous potential, even if that pot...

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After this organization is put together, they could go to different schools from elementary through college or after school programs like the boys and girls clubs and teach students about racial discrimination, but media could not make the full awareness or in other words many people may not know anything over these organizations. ... We could also Encourage open communication with people so they are more likely to report racism. ... Racial issues inspired me to start an online discussion group on Facebook under the page name Stop Discriminating People to address several issues of racial dis...

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An example of this is Goldberg's discovery that both male and female university students, regardless of their attitudes toward the feminist movement, rate photos of less attractive women as being more pro-feminist (even though physical attractiveness was unrelated to whether the women were supporters or non-supporters). ... Parents and teachers may work to modify their behavior to encourage lower levels of prejudice in children. ...

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Affirmative action is a policy to encourage equal opportunity and to level the playing field for groups of people who have been and are discriminated against (Stein, Martinez, Tashiro). ... Minority students who have never been accepted into a decent school are now being accepted. ... Society's hopes are to end racism in school campuses and to have diversity between the students. ...

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.: The school's student body is 67% female, but women constitute only 43% of its athletic program. ... Today, more girls are encouraged to participate in sports and other activities. ... Other benefits: Title IX requires the equal treatment of female and male student-athletes such as: equip, games, tutoring. ...

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With contracting,, "affirmative action helps firms owned by women and minorities, or firms that can show a disadvantage"(Lemann, 110) Affirmative action in education also reaches out to disabled students, women, minorities, economically disadvantaged students, veterans, etc. It helps them in many ways like: " early outreach programs, recruitment and retention programs, efforts in admissions to diversify the student population, and specific financial aid opportunities."... They believe that the passage of this proposition will encourage a healthy competition for jobs, and that it will ...

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Title IX requires the equal treatment of female and male student-athletes such as equipment, games, tutoring. Today more girls are encouraged to participate in sports and activities. ... Decision making in schools and in the labor market that relies on gender to assess what students and employees know and are able to do is both archaic and ineffective. Today's female student -athletes have been fortunate enough to experience the whole of their athletic careers under a system that includes improvements in the overall quality of their sport as well as increased participation rates. ... Wom...

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The Society for Human Resource Management makes every effort to be the leader in encouraging diversity in the workplace. ... Diversity training on campuses has over and over again been viewed as part of students' adjustment method to a way of thinking and therefore has a crucial focal point on mindset shifts. The main purpose is to organize students for efficient community involvement in the broader community by imparting multicultural understanding, comprehension, and skills. ... It ought to be encouraged and managed appropriately. ...

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By using lunch counter sit-ins, organizing into national networks like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and reaching into college campuses through the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Civil Rights Movement was able to bring together northerners and southerners, older and younger citizens and men and women to work for a single cause (Lawson et al, 1998, p. 21). ... She was instrumental in organizing a conference of student sit-in activists in 1960, forming the beginning of what would become the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). ... The environmen...

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Within two weeks students in eleven cities held sit-ins. ... The basic idea of a sit-in was for students to ask to be served at a lunch counter. ... The students would remain nonviolent and respectful at all times, and would dress in their best outfit. ... The students in attendance then formed an independent organization called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to lead in the effort. ... This act enraged both blacks and whites. 2500 students and community members staged a silent march to City Hall that day. ...

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., other than white males), are encouraged to participate fully and develop their unique skills and perspectives. ... Classroom studies have repeatedly shown that students live up-or down-to their teacher's expectations. ...

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One major incident that has occurred is that of Matthew Sheppard, a homosexual student at the University of Wyoming. ... It not only permits but also encourages others to think less of them, regardless of anything other than the fact that they are of a different race. ...

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