Gender studies

have exploited country-level differences in these phenomena in an attempt to identify what cultural and structural factors exacerbate or reduce gender differences. The societal consequences of achievement gaps and of unequal representation are typically segregation, discrimination, and negative stereotypes. For the gender gap…

Transgendered People in the Public Eye The complexity of gender is misunderstood in many people’s eyes. The definition of gender is undefined, but many people believe it needs to be formed into clear groups; the most popular being male and female. Biologically many people fit into those two groups, but mentally there are many more gender identities. Whether people want to believe it or not, being queer is not a choice. There is biological proof that accounts for the reason why transgendered…

As Connell suggests, gender is something recognisable but is often registered on an unconscious level. From the moment we are born we are placed into the binary division of male or female, the defining feature of our subjectivity. This distinction organises and informs our entire lives – from the bathrooms we use to the sports we’re expected to play. These arrangements are often so engrained into our way of interacting with the world that ‘they can seem part of the natural order’ (Connell 2015,…

increasing number of parents are concerned about the effect of school education whether it goods for their children or not. One of the type of school which is considered a good school is a same-sex school. The same-sex school, which is also known as single-gender school, separates male and female student into a different class or different building. This report shows some information about the single-sex school such as history, the reason why some parents choose the same-sex school, benefits and…

Gender is constructed by the society. Although individuals are born sexed, they are not born gendered. Learning is required for individuals to become masculine or feminine. Children learn to talk, walk and gesture according to their social group’s beliefs of how boys and girls should act (Lorber, 1991). Gender is a human production which relies on everyone continual “doing gender” (West & Zimmerman, 1987). The process of gendering involved naming, dressing, and the use of other gender markers.…

Discrimination). Despite this law and many others striving for gender equality in the workplace, we still have a gender wage gap of about 80 cents, and women make less money than men is almost every field of work (Pay Equity & Discrimination). In Kristin Schilt 's book Just One Of The Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, Schilt studies the experience of Transgender men in the workplace. Through her studies, Schilt attempts…

findings of the current study are similar to the findings of Walsh (1991) that men had more sexual partners than women. In the current study, the results found similar findings that males had more sexual partners than females, but found that self-esteem was significantly different based on number of different partners amongst men and women. Also, based on Napper et al. (2016), found women experience more negative consequences than men do. In this…

spaces are areas created to control the arrangement and placement of genders. Creating gender neutral spaces can create a significant impact on society for a variety of reasons. There have been many people who have questioned the serious lack of gender sensitive architecture. Starting with the criticism of feminine materials in the industrial revolution, through the pioneers of the modern movement. The development of the concepts gender and sex has constituted an unprecedented revolution since…

two genders to split them up; female and male. Every single day you encounter the opposite sex of your own, and you have to interact with them through school and other social activities. However, if you were to be split up from the opposite gender, interaction with the opposite sex will not happen. Single-sex schools take away this critical communication and shut you out from diversity. This is why I am against this type of education. According to people, diversity is race, culture, and gender.…

The media plays an important role in most people’s lives, which is why it should be more diverse and include more genders. Entertainment should be easy to connect to—to put oneself in a virtual world that may be completely artificial but feels natural. Music is supposed to connect with individuals on a personal, often times on an emotional, level; video games are meant to make everyone feel like a hero; television shows, commercials, books, and magazines are supposed appeal to and represent…