Gender Essay

in lectures, responses, visuals, and the two documentaries, I believe that anatomy is not destiny. An individual should be treated simply as an individual, not as one conforming to social ideals/ the social construct. In the documentary, Codes of Gender,…

address issues of gender representation and equality? In the recent years, there are a lot argues about feminism. Some people thing that in today’s society there is no longer a need for feminism, women can also have the equal pay, equal job and equal rights in today society, for example Park Geun-hye becomes the first woman elected President of South Korea and Tsai Ing-wen becomes Taiwan’s first female president (Julian (2016)). At the same time, there are another people argue that gender…

because of the gender roles they were taught in the society and culture we grew up in. Well this little girl is climbing a tree and most likely going to rip her tights. She loves wear dresses and loves the feeling of looking down from the tops of trees. Little does she know that as she grows up her parents, culture and society will teach her that she needs to sit proper and not get dirty. Does she conform, or not, we will never know. Some children have the voice to speak and not let gender roles…

and three stores for women. At first it was a little hard because I would walk past stores like Forever 21, Hollister, JC Penny and ect. What these stores have in common is that they are all coed stores. I was looking for stores that reinforced one gender role more than the other. So for men (and boys) I picked Men’s Warehouse, Cap World, and Champs Sports. For women (and girls) I picked Victoria Secrets, Charlotte Russe and Torrid. I’m going to start with men (and boys) first at Men’s…

I become a father, I will not be hard on my children because it would be very hard for me to know that children are not satisfied, or thinking about killing themselves. My research revealed that gender dysphoria is a condition in which there is a conflict between a person's physical gender and the gender the individual identifies his or herself. It would be very difficult to determine how many people are transgendered. The answer to this is that there isn’t any organization collecting data and…

This statement is sexist for the reason that they use the term “chick”, making it seem as if she was an animal of some sort. This statement could be considered problematic due to it being dehumanizing toward women. An alternative to this statement could be “Did you see the young lady over there?” This statement I believe is racist for the reason that it talks about a specific race in a stereotypical manner. This statement could be problematic because it judges a race and puts them all in a…

Gender socialization Gender socialization is important to our society as it affect the behaviors of men and women which lead to gender differences. However, I believe there are some gender differences that cannot be explained by gender socialization. The key terms of gender socialization will be defined first, the relationships between gender socialization and gender differences will then be discussed. Understand the key terms of gender socialization The following terms have to be defined in…

One of the reasons gender norms are thoroughly ingrained in society because they are often imposed upon people from a young age. For example, according to Ekert and McConnell-Ginet, authors of Language and Gender, parents use more inner state words when talking to their young daughters than they do when talking to their young sons. When parents use these specific types of “emotion” words on their daughters, they are enforcing the societal gender stereotype that girls are more emotional than boys…

Gender Identity Throughout the Decades When thinking about gender, most people only see two genders. The definition of gender is “the characteristics that a society of culture delineates as masculine or feminine”. Gender differs from sex in that sex is biological; it involves your sex chromosomes, hormones, reproductive organs. There are 3 sexes, male, females and intersex. Intersex is having both male and female reproductive organs. Gender matters in society by how one acts or portrays…

The Change of Gender Roles Gender roles are changing; there was a time when men were men and women were women. Despite women’s success, their strong and intelligent nature are still not enough to be at the same level as men; since women are more judged by their appearances. However, it is not only women who suffer from gender role pressures, but also men. Men who are too masculine are sometimes called gay, men who cries at movies are called a baby. “Suck it up!” “Real men don’t cry,” those are…