Sex differences in humans

The human desire to be with another is said to be one of the most powerful forces in the world. It inspires poems, songs, books and nearly every other creative media. From an evolutionary standpoint it is the reason that humans have been able to survive and thrive. Creating pair-bonds allow for bi-parental care and give the pair a sense of calm and joy, despite the struggles they may face (Acevedo & Aron, 2014, p. 1). But how is it that those pair-bonds stay together? Studies suggest that men and women engage in two types of behavior, benefit-provisioning and cost-provisioning. In benefit-provisioning partners strive to keep their mates through giving them benefits, while in cost-provisioning behaviors partners place negative pressure on their…

Liping had told me so many wonderful things about China, but I wanted to know about the harder times. I decided to do further research starting with the missing women in China due to the one-child policy, the education of Chinese women primarily after they have gotten married, and depression and suicide amongst women. The gender gap seems very evident; however, there may be reasons for this phenomenon. Erwin Bulte, Nico Heerink, and Zhang Xiaobo teamed up and wrote an article for the Oxford…

the treatment of each gender. When parents have a daughter, she is valued and cherished. Though if the couple has a son, he is honored more. This lends to gender inequality; most families prefer to have a son to carry out the legacy of the family name. In addition, as new technology was created and more parents are able to identify the gender of their child, there have been a dramatic decline in the birth rate of females. "The resulting gender imbalance widened after 1986, when ultrasound…

“I begged your dad’s family to keep you. But your grandma said no. I said ‘it’s fine to have a daughter.’ But your grandma wouldn’t budge,” (Mudd). China’s policy was so strict to a point where they forced many families to abandon their daughters. Their boorish acts led to more than 100,000 girls being placed into foster care. Amongst these numbers, the law also prevented over 400 million births. One of the most significant effects of the policy has been on China’s sex ratio. China has a grossly…

Most Asia countries have male-biased sex imbalance resulting in a deficit described to as missing women. In China there has been a steady increase in the number of “missing women” Qian states that “an estimated 48.4 percent of the population in China and India are female”1. Most of the missing women in the world are in India and China where it is stated there is an estimated deficit of close to seventy million women. The sex imbalance has been documented in richer Asian countries like Taiwan and…

The policy restricted families to having only one child and required them to apply for a birth permit before starting a pregnancy. Children that lacked a permit were denied household registration (It’s a girl). The One-Child policy was introduced by the Chinese Communist Party in an open letter. In the letter, they stated four reasons for the implementation: controlling excessive population, “[i]ncreasing saving and investment rates”, enhancing the quality of life, and protecting the environment…

girls prefer dolls, toys on the feminine end of the spectrum (Alexander and Haines, 2002). The researchers believe this gap is a result of learning mechanisms that reinforce gender socialization in sex-typical play. In children, environmental and social factors are the culprit for their behavior towards the toys they play with, however in other species, it is merely biological factors as the main influence (Alexander and Haines, 2002).…

Regarding aggression differences between sexes in humans there are two conflicting points of view: sexual selection as the cause of disparity of aggression between males and females, or social environment of differing cultures as the basis for this. The first argument is based on sexual selection as the cause for sex differences in aggression; sexual selection is the choice of members of one sex by the other and clash by members of one sex for access to the other. Sexual selection as the cause…

Scientists have typically believed that sex differences are solely based on biological features, such as genes, hormones, and the brain. People never really believed that environmental influences could have an effect on something that is biologically determined. However, within Wade’s essay “The New Science of Sex Difference,” Wade analyzes the biological bases, such as genes, hormones, and brains, in which she explores the effects these mechanisms have under different social factors.…

Did slavery really end in the 1860’s ? The Atlantic slave trade and human trafficking today has many similarities; however, they also have many differences. One of those differences is the way the people are recruited and taken into slavery. Many of us aren’t aware of human trafficking and it can be happening all around our neighborhood without us even knowing. The Atlantic slave trade and human trafficking have many resemblances. Two of those resemblances are that the people were treated like…