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    There are many significant changes of gender norms in our society today, one of these changes is the employment situation for women. Over the past few decades, women’s labor force participation rate has been increased. Specifically, the rate was 32.7% in 1948 and was 56.7% in 2015. (US Department of Labor, 2016) There are various factors that attributed to the increase. For example, having a higher education degree is one of the most essential factors of increasing women’s labor force…

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    Gender In Advertising

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    The following essay will examine how the media, particularly advertising, still frequently portrays how we see gender as little more than a stereotypical black and white representation of the ideal masculine and the ideal feminine. In order to illustrate this thesis we will examine 3 visual advertisements all found via the Internet and all created within the last 5 years. We will also use information from the film Miss Representation as well as idea from Women’s voices Feminist Visions chapter 5…

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    Gender Socialization

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    About gender socialization begins at early age, not just clothes or toilet. In my childhood, the store has a different counter let boys and girls to choose what they want toys. As a boy, I will choose Transformers and animal planet Big Tub of Dinosaurs, toy car. Probably there are three types, action toys like that Transformers or superman model; machine toys like four-wheel drive or children electric motor; logic toys like logo and magic cube. Many small boys have a dream to save the world, but…

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    In our time, men and women carry out specific roles in which are usually based solely on their biotic gender. Even though in every instance it isn 't true, most of the people around us tend to live out their lives heeding these extremely eloquent roles. They are augmented by all forms of society and media in many ways, some of which are unmissed and others which are casually more indirect. Our society’s stereotypes portray women as being housewives that should be the ideal wife in a mans eyes as…

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    Gender Critical Points (GCPs) In the first text, it shown that when the villagers came up to help the shepherd boy, men brought a club and a harrow while women choices of weapon was a rolling pin. People could assume that man was tending to the farm while woman doing household chore. Domestic roles performed by man and women and whether these roles are always associated with one gender over another. For instance, as stated by Toçi & Aliu that we can often come across beliefs that…

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    Gender In Sports

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    Until recently gender and sex have both been viewed in binary terms, and considered interchangeable. Now as more people are publicly identifying as trans, agender, or nonbinary, and different sexual orientations are coming to light, feminism and human rights have expanded these concepts in order to encompass people who are more marginalized than their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts. However, the idea of the gender binary is still strictly enforced through popular culture, and especially…

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    Okonkwo Gender

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    In Okonkwo’s eyes gender plays a big role in how he sees people and judges them. He believes that men should essentially be an embodiment of himself: a strong, brave, manly figure. He believes if men have any qualities that resemble even the slightest of a feminine characteristic they’re weak and not a real man. He feels that if someone doesn’t accurately represent their gender they are weak and not up to par in his eyes. What he perceives are soft are things such as music and being lazy, which…

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    The Influence Of Gender

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    Lorber states, “…gender is constantly created and re-created out of human interaction, out of social life, and is the texture and order of that social life” (Lorber 64). I grew up in a religious background where my parents were both Catholic at first but then converted to Christianity, so growing up I was in a Christian household, but with some Catholic ties in it as well. That being said, when I started to take this class I started to realize how my “doing gender” has been socially constructed…

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    Lysistrata Gender

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    The Enemy Henry Kissinger once said, “‘Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy’” (“MLA”). The genders will always be tied together in some way because we can’t live without the other half. Women can be single and independent like men with it still being socially acceptable. Women and men have no idea who’s to do what because of the way society has changed. In Lysistrata, a play by Aristophanes, humor is used in characterization to prove the…

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    Media And Gender

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    department of Communication at University of North Carolina at Chapel wrote about the influence of views of gender claiming, “women are underrepresented [in the media] which falsely implies that men are the cultural standard and women are unimportant or invisible.” Continually she wrote, “men and women are portrayed in stereotypical ways that reflect and sustain socially endorsed views of gender.” Society has placed requirements of beauty…

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