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Media Images of Gender and Race

are not given the same fair treatment by the media as others routinely receive. Regardless of the color of ones skin or the sound...

Analyzing Homeward Bound American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May

This 1988 text is analyzed in six pages and include the factors that fueled the enforcement of traditional and gender roles that r...

New Zealand's Women Prime Ministers Jennifer Shipley and Helen Clark

In ten pages former and current New Zealand prime ministers Helen Clark and Jennifer Shipley are examined in this consideration of...

Rites of Male Passage in the Americas

In five pages this paper discusses how masculinity is conceptualized by the Americas in terms of gender interaction and in contras...

Schools and Gender Bias

the boys can get in there and do their work" (2). The authors ask the reader to imagine how discriminatory it might seem if the te...

Ancient Greece and Changing Attitudes Regarding Virtue

The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...

Contemporary Workplace and the Importance of Equity and Gender Issues

have broken through the gender barriers from a century ago is indicative of the still stringent attitude society takes in relation...

Epic of Gilgamesh and its Gendered Text

In 5 pages this epic is discussed in terms of the gender roles that the divine and mortal characters embody and the lack of female...

What is Meant by Fairness in Testing

In five pages this paper defines fairness and unfairness in testing and considers gender distinctions with regard to differences i...

United Kingdom Police Force and 'Equal Opportunities'

In eleven pages this paper discusses the UK police force with an examination of how the practice of equal opportunities is often t...

Puritan And Victorian America and Gender

Puritan America is examined as well as the Victorian era. Gender is discussed in this context and the eras are compared and cont...

Managerial Responsibilities and Types of Thought

various forms of thought being discussed herein, it does illustrate that there is a very urgent need for open-mindedness in terms ...

Classical Greek Polis and Women

In five pages this paper discusses the Greek polis, gender ideals, and changes that led to the Hellenistic era as described by a b...

Feminist Literature's Portrayal of Prejudice and Oppression

observance of her passage past his house. Anne knows that she does not look like she fits in, and black person in a white suburb o...

Social Construction and Gender Roles

Smiler (2004) found that many of the socially constructed ideas about masculinity that are prevalent in American culture were prob...

Equalizing Aspects of Sport

special accommodations. In respect to race, sometimes there is reverse discrimination. Some believe that the black man has a nat...

Firing of Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina

Its possible that she was a little of both - experts point out that the HP/Compaq situation was not only poor because it proved to...

Deborah Tannen's Gender in the Classroom

think or "tell" people what to do where women are more likely to suggest something. Tannen does recognize, however, that in our...

Gender Perceptions on Rape and Responsibility

Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...

Great Britain and Achievement in Education

size, parents generally have managed only to replace themselves with their offspring. On a timeline that includes all of human hi...

Cheerleading and Sports Gender Constructs

peer pressure, societal norms, family expectations, all contribute towards "channelling" the individual into certain forms of iden...

Male Gender in Charles Atlas Also Dies

in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...

Critical Views of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Nursing and Image

In four pages this research paper argues that nursing's image needs to be changed and focuses on accomplishing this through the in...

Information Technology Lessons, Student Performance, and Gender Differences

the division and difference that may exist within the classroom whether or not the digital divide has been overcome. One major d...

Relationships, Female Dominance, and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...

Gendered Workplace and Women in Management Positions

in the workplace" (Craig, 1992, p. 299), as well as the upsurge in home workers required to meet the need of a growing industriali...

Effective Counselor Traits

or members of a family attempt to gain an understanding of self and others that will enable them to effectively solve problems and...

Education and Gender Issues

what should be done. Wollstonecraft argued persuasively in favor of co-educational classrooms, yet some proponents of equality in...