Gender Roles Research Proposals Samples For Students

INTRODUCTION

Everyone remembers stories beginning with “once upon a time” and ending in “happily ever after.” Some people see fairytales as antiquated ideologies that are not beneficial in the modern era. Others believe that they are harmless tales intended to spark children’s imagination. Fairytales can establish ideologies about good and evil and right and wrong. They are, also, filled with pointed gender role ideals and gender stereotypes that are, today, ethically questionable. In the last few decades, there has been a literary movement of taking classic fairytales and attempting to update them and eliminate many stereotypes. This leads to ...

Women in Media

The media is arguably the most powerful and pervasive influence on society’s perception of men and women. The media has a constant presence in the modern society through advertisements, news and programs that have become part of our daily lives. Media messages are ingrained in our consciousness where they influence our perception of many issues including gender roles and expectations. This paper postulates that the media is responsible for propagating unrealistic stereotypes about women. While men are also affected by these stereotypes, it is women who are underrepresented, overly sexualized and portrayed in traditional gender roles that are not ...

Introduction

Sociology and gender studies are both expansive subject areas. In this paper, the author aims to identify and examine the existence of gender stereotyping in some famous works of literature, notably fairytales. This paper is a research proposal that outlines the research problems that the author hopes to identify, a contextualized background of the study (i.e. gender stereotyping in fairytales), a review of relevant literatures (focusing on some of the well-known fairytales that may contain evidences of gender stereotyping, a discussion about and the objectives and methods that will be used in the actual research paper. Gender stereotyping is ...

Thesis statement: Edna achieves her awakening thanks to her social problems that push her to discover herself and her freedoms while Nora’s family life when she starts to question her morality courtesy of her familial obligations that pushed her to indebt secretly herself.

INTRODUCTION

Society and gender roles
Introduction of the required texts
Introduction of the two protagonists, Edna and Norah and their awakening
Thesis statement
NORAH HELMER AND HER AWAKENING TROUGH FAMILY PROBLEMS
Treatment by her husband
Her maturity as exhibited through borrowing of money
Her acknowledgement as an unhappy woman
Her disengagement from her “play- room” of ...

Introduction

The topic on female gender roles in ancient or modern society has been a complex subject that has many people researching in order to see the difference. This is why I chose this topic to research in order to find out the truth of whether this people have changed or are still following the old traditional ways. The truth is most of the way women in China behave is almost as similar as to how they were in the ancient society. The only major difference that one can find is that the country has been improved by the modern ways. ...

Since the advent of the 21st century, the American man has been depicted to being in a very sorry state. This worrisome trend goes against the aspect of hegemonic masculinity that largely characterised the previous centuries. Since time immemorial, the gender practice in America and almost all other parts of the world guaranteed the man a dominant social position, while the women could only assume the subordinate social position. However, the situation has changed with time and the 21st woman has been observed to go beyond her territory to the point of domineering over the male gender. Largely unnoticed is the ...