Gender

Gender identity is a fundamental aspect in everyone. In many cases, knowing an unborn baby’s gender before they are named is very common. Before an individual is born, gender stereotypes and norms are already playing a huge factor into the person’s identity and self-awareness. For many, gender identity and biological sex are generally congruent with one another; however, this is not true for everyone. Gender dysphoria, as known as Gender Identity Disorder (GID), means when someone is distressed…

Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott contains a series of essays that look at various gender/women histories (women 's, labor, etc.) and how the perception of women and gender has changed over time. This is an updated version of the original text with an added sections further discussing the term "gender" and its definition. In the preface to the new version, Scott discusses how the term "gender" in the modern sense can be represented of five different groups: men, women,…

Gender in education is an important topic of focus as it can place limitations on students learning, development and relationships. Factors such as this can make schooling a negative place reducing achievements and impacting students furthering their education through higher education. Furthering knowledge about gender in education helps not only students but gives educators a better understanding of the impacts not only on students but themselves. Facing gender in the classroom comes with its…

Gender bias in biomedical and medicinal research has always maintained a “male tilt” throughout history. Recently, the NIH addressed the presence of gender-bias in medicinal research by increasing funding in gender-based research done on mice (Bichell). Gender–based medicine was only developed recently from the increasing concern in women’s health. In her research, Dr. Kautzy-Willer found 306274 results for “women’s health” when searching in a scientific literature database, but only 3107…

“Sex” and “gender” exist as a manifestation of assigned cultural meanings, social organization and the power of politics, simultaneously form an intricate web of multiple disproportionate strands of difference that is charged with “multifaceted narratives of domination and struggle” (Haraway, 1990:140). According to Garfinkel (1976), sex is the socially agreed upon biological criteria for classifying a person as either male or female at birth, which becomes a significant factor in the collective…

control of the population. In the past it was used to pull women out of poverty, into the workforce, and out of male-dominant marriages and dependencies. There have been many cases over the years discussing the vast amount of differences between the genders, what each one is progressively better or worse at, and what their generic, universal roles should be at work, home, and in relationships. Assessing these differences is essential in solving the social issue of the long-term distrust between…

food-ways, and mortuary analysis. In general, the study of gender in anthropology is a relatively recent phenomenon that spans all subfields. Bioarchaeology has a unique position to study gender since the field of bioarchaeology can contextualize human…

Gender roles, gender stereotypes, and gender norm are very similar to each other in the ways that men and women are seen and portrayed in the world but they each represent the differences between males, and females, and boys, and girls. In today's world we see a lot of gender stereotypes used in commercials, TV shows, movies, and plays that involve acting. Research suggest that gender stereotyping has shown up so much in television, and other things is because the typical gender stereotypes are…

Similarly Hoyenga and Hoyenga (1993) state that both genes and the environment work together to determine gender. An example of this is Udry’s (2000) study of girl’s exposure to prenatal androgens (male sex hormones) in the womb and how this affected the girl’s socialisation into femininity after birth. Udry (2000) found that girls who were exposed to the male sex hormones in the womb were less accepting to feminine attitudes even though their parents enforced femininity on them later in life.…

Gender Gap in Cybersecurity Cyberwarfare is now an integrated part of China’s military strategy according to the US Department of Defense. And in January 2010, Google announced that a major cyber attack from China had penetrated its corporate infrastructure and stolen information from its computers. This raises the awareness that cybersecurity have become an important role in national security. Cyber attack can be used in three major categories — economic, military and social adversaries. For…