Following that they will complete the Butch and Feminine Identity Measure. ... Measures Butch and Feminine Identity Measure. A measure similar to Loulan (1990) was created to measure butch and femme lesbians' individual identification. ... Penke and Asendorpf (2008) Sociosexual Orientation Inventory will be utilized to measure levels of sociosexuality. ... It also includes items measures by an 8-point scale, ranging from 1 (Never) to 8 (At least once a day) (e.g. ...

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Sports scientists have proven that women can run 90 percent as fast as the average man, and is about two thirds as strong as men in upper body strength when using the traditional military method of measuring physical fitness. ... Also, when other measures of strength are used, such as strength relative to cross-sectional area of muscle, the strength of men and women is nearly equal. ...

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They measure "mediating" processes, focusing on incentives and costs associated with victim reporting (Felson et al., 2002). ... Felson, Messner, Hoskin, and Deane use cost and incentives as the basis for measuring calling patterns in this analysis. ...

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women and their resources were centrally involved in prevailing development policies and practices, though not in ways that benefited women. Appropriating women's resources - land, time, food and energy resources, paid and unpaid labor, community networks for maintaining health, political and econ...

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Nevertheless, positivist victimology has "ensured the development and refinement of quantitative measures of victimisation" throughout the discipline of victimology. ... However, with no tangible evidence to support this, it is difficult to measure and come to substantial conclusions. ...

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Violenta's fall from a reputed paragon of feminine virtue and subsequent turn to violent measures is portrayed as a fatal consequence of a flawed social system rather than, as was the belief of the time, a violence innate to the female body. ... Thus, the text reveals the paradox: sexual chastity was not a measure of how truly virtuous a woman is, but rather was an important negotiation tool in securing a husband, getting paid off in a sense by said husband's wealth, and cementing a woman's societal status as a "proper" woman. ...

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Background of Domestic Violence Domestic violence and psychological abuse are identified as, "behaviors used by one person in a relationship to control the other" (http://www.domesticviolence.org/). Most people believe that it only occurs among women of color, who are married and living in poor comm...

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In the world today, there has been no society found where women dominate over males (Stearns 14). Civilization's entire history has been based upon masculine traits and how they affect society. Some say this may be because the fertility of women was always put in such high esteem by early religion...

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Abstract As much as the attempt to control the gender of offspring to achieve a desired sex may be appealing to some, others as equally disregard it. This particular argument can be carried either way and is currently being address and practiced in all available parts of the world. In this study, I ...

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For women who participate in productive activities beyond the housekeeping has tended to bring women a greater measure of equality, but the load gets heavier from them to carry job, household, and children. ...

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Many people are not aware that women still earn considerably less than men, or that a specific day "Equal Pay Day "has been designated to raise awareness of pay inequity. The Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963, making it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who hold the same job...

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On the other hand, men value potential female partners in terms of fecundity, the ability to produce and care for children (Buss 69) Physical attractiveness is a determinant of desirability and measure of reproductive fitness. ...

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This measure of doubt freed Chaucer in many scholars" minds and as Cannon writes, "they have repeatedly tried to protect Chaucer's reputation from any association with so repugnant a crime as rape" (92). ...

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Matthew J Coffee Freshman English 2 November 3, 2003 Boys and Girls The story is about a young girl who struggles against society's ideas of gender portrayal, stereotyping and expectations of the female role, only to find herself trapped in the ways of the world. The story is told through the ...

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Mass media is a form of communication that addresses large and diverse audiences that are physically separated from one and another. The media itself is a powerful and pervasive mode of communication and in today's society it not only shapes people's perception of gender but also reinforces the gend...

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Masculinity in the Media The discussion of masculinity encounters a paradox: some behaviors are clearly aimed at dominance showing off, physical aggression, etc but no man is only dominant, some men are not dominant at all, yet somehow on the whole a systematic dominance of men over any person de...

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According to the measuring techniques of The Global Gender Gap Report (2014), women can pursue economic engagement and opportunity at 60 percent worldwide, with only a four percent of improvement since 2006. ...

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Frightening Stories as Entertainment Throughout many years, frightening stories were told and passed down in order to keep people entertained and amused. In the past, before television and radio were invented, telling stories and myths was a form of entertainment, which never seemed to have disappeared. Now, in the present, these stories and myths are being presented on television to entertain the audience. Many tales and myths are presented in all different cultures of the world. People always found it a thrill to tell these tales and to be frightened by them. ...

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These studies demonstrated medium effect for men in comparison to women on measures of spatial intelligence and there was no evidence for any effect of women scoring higher in comparison to men on verbal intelligence abilities (Feingold, 1988; Voyer & Bryden, 1995); Hyde & Linn, 1988; Linn & Petersen, 1985; hedges & Nowell, 1995). ...

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All in all, thanks to The Royal Commission, women were able to have a status that supported their belief on equal rights, and measures were taken to further provide them with succession on their road to equality. ...

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The Footprint of Margaret Fuller Margaret Fuller could well be remembered as either a Feminist matriarch or, as Nathaniel Hawthore described her, "A great humbug defective and evil in nature" (McQuade 1305). In Fuller's essay "The Great Lawsuit" which she later expanded into Woman in the Nineteenth Century, she produces her insurrectionary thoughts and ideas about the inequality of women. This paper will consider the traditional attitudes towards women, Margaret Fuller's ideologies and how the influences of the Transcendentalists may have inspired this work. T...

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Women's mental health teaches us how to be more aware of the issues faced at each developmental stage and it helps us consider measures which we could use to avoid the development of psychological disorders. ...

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Affirmative action has been a major issue in America since its beginning. The black rights and women's rights movements of the 1960's fought against injustice and discrimination that had been suffered by minorities for years [Hud99]In response, President Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 in 19...

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Gender is society's dictation of how an individual should act, in accordance with their sex. Shakespeare challenges the assumptions made about gender in his own society. He presents gender as a changeable trait, not necessarily corresponding to the sex of the character. Furthermore, he presents gender in a way contradictory to the conventions of his time, through the use of disguise. In Elizabethan times, women were not allowed to act on stage, and society considered them to be the weaker sex, who needed to be looked after, or 'owned' by men. ...

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In the 19th century, the gender role in the American society was extremely different and separate compared to the gender role nowadays. The world of male chauvinism was appreciated on that century, where men believed that the "proper sphere for a woman was the house" (Thomas). Men were able to work ...

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