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Darwin’s second observation was that of sexual selection (Hosken & House, 2011). Sexual selection selects for traits that make an individual more successful in finding a mate and producing offspring (Kansehiro, 2009). Most often, this type of selection involves males (Hosken & House, 2011). A prominent example of a male trait that is subject to sexual selection is courtship behaviour (Eberhard, 1994). Courtship allows mates (most often females) to gain information about the quality of their…

This journal proves that the actual state of sexism in English textbooks used in Japan. The object of ten textbooks is published between 1989 and 1992, which is divided introductory, intermediate and advanced levels. This article examined the sexism from nine aspects: the number of female and male characters, the number of female and male sentences, main characters’ qualifications, the image of occupation, adjective usage, activities, pronounce of animals, others and original written year of…

Male preference in choosing a potential mate is important knowledge for people trying to find a male mate. Research conducted by the University of Konkuk department of economics member Kitae Sohn indicates that the age of the potential mate plays a significant role in males’ preference, stating that men seek out younger mates. Claiming that the reason behind this is that men seek young women because they are fertile. Kitae Sohn explains reasoning behind this with results of the study in the…

Sex Identification In regards to the human os coxae, Bruzek et al. worked to develop a new tool for sex estimation based on the measurements (Bruzek 2017). They used a database of known sex subjects to develop the Diagnose Sexuelle Probabiliste v2 (Bruzek 2017). The combination of different dimensions can be used to determine likely sex, and as dimensions are added the likelihood increases to higher that 90% (Bruzek 2017). This method used ten metric variables in order to identify the likely…

3.3 Safeguarding The consideration of male practitioners working with EYFS/ Primary sector age group may raise safeguarding issues as research has shown over 50% of male practitioners are worried about others views and the peer pressure when working with children under five, voicing concerns about potential allegations being made, for instance: when changing a child’s nappy, a view not upheld when a father has a child (Baker, 2012b), so why in the case of childcare is this seen negatively?…

Occupational Inequality Among Men and Women Imagine being a woman in 1972 and trying to enter the workforce. In those days, women were (stereo) typically secretaries, nurses, teachers, and in other such jobs where the primary focus was taking care of sick children and injured adults. According to the data given on table 11.1, very few women worked in what were considered “men’s fields.” These fields consisted of civil engineers, auto mobile and mechanical, and dentistry field. In contrast, women…

1.1 “Women as Other” (Beauvoir 1) The contemplation of women as other specie accommodates men to consider her as a less important being. The attitude of man is not based on equality, it’s a way to dehumanize woman on the whole. The French feminist Cixous in “The Laugh of the Medusa” has talked about the dualism of western thought which revolves around man/woman. This dualism is not based on equality as man is the superior half who is foretold to subordinate women. Maugham’s men in the stories…

How are male and females bodies are viewed today on magazine or ads? Do people look just at what they want to look at or do people look at the whole picture? Sometimes who’s ever on the magazines people just want to look at what ever pops out to them. It can be either male body 's, females body 's, males clothing or females clothing. Another view on things can be movies. Every romantic movie has a least one handsome male with a six pack and a beautiful girl with a nice skin tone and nice legs.…

For my Do-It-Yourself Primatology project I chose to research how Indiana University male and female students behave differently in public when they are eating with a group of friends, versus eating on their own among strangers. I found this question to be thought provoking because of the fact that Indiana University is a very diverse school with people from many different cultures and backgrounds. For this experiment I broke the variables down into four different categories; my first category…

Estimating IQ: Comparing male and female predictions Introduction The idea of using an individual’s self-estimated IQ (SEI) to judge their humility has been used frequently, as asking people to guess their own humility would likely be as inaccurate as their IQ estimates. In the majority of studies performed, there has been a significant difference between male and female estimates, this could be due to females being too humble or males being more conceited. The area itself is an important…