Gender studies

The second half of the assigned readings from our textbooks, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century by authors Altbach, P., Gumport, P., and Berdahl, R. (2011) and Organizational Theory in Higher Education by Manning, K. (2012) have given greater knowledge and understanding of the American higher education issues and organizational theories. Altbach et al. (2011) stated, higher education institution have changed and adapted to new circumstances, with the most significant changes…

college students, we have compared two waves of data, analyzing different times and days; however, the location of the study remained the same: Game room. The first wave of data analyzed the flirting behavior of students in the game room at 10am on a Monday. The following wave demonstrated the flirting behavior of students on a Thursday afternoon. The data analyzed during this study suggests that college students display more flirting behavior in between classes from 12-1 than to students…

clothes and Barbie’s and maybe even a cute little kitchen set for when she is just a little bit older. Admixed all of the excitement of a new babies coming into the world, have we as a society, ever stopped and looked at the different stereotypes and gender roles that we are instilling in our children at such a young and vulnerable age through their toys. This is a topic that not many in the past have thought about but with the growth in equality for women in and out of the workforce, there has…

In this project, I will analyze the problem of gender inequality in terms of labor income. This problem is important in our society because people with same background and same experience should be treated the same in the same working environment. Women should not be judged based on their biological gender. The data sample used in this project is working individuals between ages 25 and 54 from Current Population Survey, 2012. Sample size contains 999 observations. I will first discuss the…

Assignment Rahilly (2015) Rahilly, E. P. (2015). The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant Child Parents’ Negotiations with Childhood Gender Variance. Gender & Society,29(3), 338-361. In this article, Rahilly, E. (2015) argues that there has been an increased rate of children in society, stepping outside of the gender binary to demonstrate gender variance. Rahilly examines that the development of these children 's demonstrating the gender nonconformity is identified by the lifestyle and…

experiences by using gender-based reasoning. This study found children choose their own gendered toys at higher rates than any other toys. In fact, children rated unattractive toys of their gender at almost identical rates of attractive toys for another gender. Children would disregard their original thought of attraction to fit within their gender role. Hilliard and Liben (2010) say that toys, books, and decorations in a classroom all pool together to encompass the gender salience in a…

ones gender are referred to as gender roles. Gender roles are what leads to stereotyping the nurse as female and the surgeon as male. Gender roles are what formed the sexist perspective that women belong in the kitchen and men belong in the workplace. Gender roles are what discourage women from pursuing careers in engineering and discourage men from pursuing careers in the fashion industry. However, not everyone fits neatly into these binary “in a…

Mistry, T. (2005). Group Work With “Mixed Membership” Groups: Issues of Race and Gender. Social Work with Groups, 28(3/4). This article mostly dwells on the effects that gender inequality has on the economic status of women. This study employs primary data to show that the characteristics exhibited by a small group are a representation of a wider group. Through well-illustrated points, the study reveals that race and gender discrimination remains a problem in the workplaces. This article…

I am also considering control variables that include gender, socioeconomic status, education, and treatment. Based on Hunt et al’s (2001) article control variables that were considered are education, treatment, and gender. The impact of ADHD can disrupt how one learns, effecting education, and while pharmacological treatment has demonstrated improvements in work, hyperactivity, and attention…

The current study examined inconsistencies between the gender of the accused rapist and verdicts determined by jurors. It was hypothesized that the gender of the defendant suspected of being a rapist would significantly make a set of jurors be prejudiced in their decision-making in their verdicts such as the case of females that are usually not perceived as rapists. The study involved using a sample of female and male suspected rapists (N = 60) from a court of law. Participants reported their…