The Second Sex

intelligent males were at least tolerated. The Anti-Bullying Alliance supports this claim with a statistic showing that nearly twice as many females are discouraged from math and science careers than males (anti-bullyingalliance.com.) That children of either sex are being bullied just for showing intelligence is something that is alarming. The root cause isn’t that children are prejudiced, but rather adults biasing them to…

Throughout class thus far I have noticed a familiar theme that each play exhibits, which is gender. William Shakespeare is very good at altering issues in women studies and overall gender ideology. He does support the stereotypes of women and men and their roles in society but he also questions, challenges and changes these representations. I think the main question that Shakespeare raises, is what it means to be a female and what the characteristics of gender are? In the article Mixed Gender,…

For this Connect to your World Activity I found two different articles about sexism and racism in STEM fields. The first article I found was about sexism in peer reviewing, and suggesting a male co-author would improve the work. The second being about sex and race determining how much you will get paid in the medical field. The first article from The Washington Post was titled, “Sexism In Science: Peer Editor Tells Female Researchers Their Study Needs A Male Author”. This article was about two…

12/14/17 Pd. 5 Things Fall Apart and Gilgamesh Comparison Essay: Gender Roles Women always have been undermined in society. Though now, in the 21st century, they have more rights and freedom, it wasn’t always like that. They were always the lesser sex, including in today’s society, always coming after men. However, some civilizations/countries had slightly different views on men. For example, in Gilgamesh, even though women are still depicted as lustful and house wives, women represented more.…

While comparing differences between behavioural lateralization between larvae and adults, it was expected that results from studies with larvae as test subjects would show variation in results. The variation in result was expected because larval stage of zebrafish develops really fast both morphologically and anatomically (Budaev & Andrew, 2009). However, the synthesis of behavioural lateralization in zebrafish literature states otherwise. The presence of inconsistency in results of adults can…

have become a lot more female centered. However, there is always room for improvement in any area; I feel we are leaps and bounds ahead of how things used to be. Today I will thoroughly explain how things have changed for the better, for the female sex since Katha Pollitt’s essay was written over twenty years ago. As a mother of a preschool-aged little girl, I have seen my fair share of Disney movies. Movies such as Tangled, Mulan, Frozen, and Brave are some of the many movies that have come…

Gender War Through Writing It is obvious that people have the tendency to favor the gender that they identify with over the other, and often put the two against each other. The common assumption is that children usually portray this bias behavior, and as they get older, they grow out of it. Although this is the stereotypical belief, this behavior does not always die off with childhood, instead sticking with some throughout their entire adulthood, leaving those to choose to act upon it, some…

make good decisions. sex and their bodies to make the men stop fighting in an endless war. Though it is played up for comedy, Lysistrata, shows a unique viewpoint. Calonice and the other women don’t just want to have sex to please their husbands. They enjoy sex, as much as their husbands. That fact is what makes it so hard for the women to continue their sex strike against their husbands. Lysistrata is revolutionary in that aspect —The women are not vilified for enjoying sex, in fact their plan…

and psychiatric needs, some officers tend to take advantage of that especially the male ones. In June, a male officer was arrested due to sexually abusing two female inmates. Many female prisoners reported being abused, threatened and forced to have sex with the guards, and with the guards’ authority and power as well as the inmates’ mental state there rarely tend to be any consequences for the guards (Brown, 2016). There tend to be the same issue facing drug related offenders, with officers…

and tough without emotions so most people seek out a man’s direction rather than a women’s because women are looked at as emotional, sensitive, and kind. When a child is born we are taught to be a certain gender in result of your actual anatomical sex. Women and men might have differences but not to the point to where one should be superior and one should be inferior. Sexism is a hard concept to talk about because the people one goes to in order to receive help to stop this are the same ones who…