Essays on Gender Stereotypes

In the captivating world of “House of the Dragon,” Rhaenyra Targaryen, initially played by the actress Milly Alcock, emerges as a formidable character, defying societal norms and challenging the traditional constraints imposed upon women in leadership roles. It is fascinating to explore the significance of Rhaenyra’s image for modern women aspiring to lead, showcasing her fierce ambition, resilience, and determination to claim the Iron Throne. As Rhaenyra’s journey is analyzed, it becomes apparent how her portrayal as a powerful and multifaceted leader not only empowers audiences but also serves as a compelling reminder of the potential and strength ...

Introduction

The film, “If these Walls Could Talk,” is a compilation of three generational segments of stories that exonerate the plight of women in the society against the general view of the dominant sex. This film was released in 1996, and it exclusively discusses the controversial issue of abortion, which seeps in three distinct generations. The three segments of the film entail different generations and decades, but the setup for the entire story transpires in the same house. The first story is a widow, whose husband was killed on the battlefield (Stuart, 2008). Demi Moore is the woman in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

COMM 495: Communications Studies Senior Capstone

Introduction The present portfolio is a compilation of different works that I completed throughout my studies at UMUC. They illustrate my understanding of the different communication theories and concepts that I learnt in these classes. In the first part of this portfolio, I presented my work samples and briefly explained their background and purpose. In the second part of the portfolio, I reflected upon the manner in which these works added to my body of knowledge and developed my communication, critical thinking, writing and analyzing skills. The final part of the portfolio is a resume. I believe that this ...

The paper will be written in the format of a feature article. As a result, it will offer an outstanding platform to analyze the language and gender stereotypes topic. The article will be detailed through exclusive research on the topic, which will be carried out through two sources, which are deeply informed on the topic. The article will be written in the perspective of the included sources in the influence of my imaginative thoughts over the topic. The target audience includes teachers, students, and editors. The article is intended to help the audience in reading as well as analyzing ...

Critical Management Exam

Gender Gender equality has been a subject of debates and long discussions of human rights protectors. Equal access to education, equal opportunities to professional growth and equal rights in advancing careers are the key goals of the governments of the most developed countries in the world. Gender inequality has been considered as the cause of many imbalances in society that often lead to decline of its overall level. Modern world’s conditions and technological developments allow women and men to leave gender stereotypes in the past and discover opportunities on the equal basis (Linstead, 2000). Equal opportunities start with ...

Abstract

The study examined the effects of stereotyping gender and age on the perception of their driving speed. There were two approaches used for selecting participants. A Qualtrics survey was used to study fifty-nine participants who were recruited from Social Psychology Laboratory course at Nevada State College and others (N = 25) recruited from the online social network Facebook. The procedure involved presenting participants with a written description of the driver in a two (age of the target: middle-age vs. old) by two (gender of the target: woman vs. man) between-subjects experiment. Afterwards, the participants watched a ten-second video clip and ...

Impacts of Gender, Racial, Ethnicity, Class, and Sexual Orientation Stereotypes

Introduction Equality is essential to the development of any nation. In fact, lack thereof compromises the possibilities of social and economic growth due to the prevalence of discrimination. With this in mind, it is worth acknowledging the fact that there are multiple stereotypes associated with race, sexual orientation, gender, and ethnicity. These stereotypes foster the development of prejudice due to the unequal distribution of responsibilities, gender inequality and psychological torture due to sexual orientation. According to Ward and Monica (128), the impacts of these stereotypes are demoralizing, and the affected groups feel unappreciated. For instance, the UK Feminista (2016) ...

Components of Intelligence in Adulthood

Theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence of Cattel-Horn suggests that intelligence involves a number of different abilities that interact and work together in order to form a common intelligence of the individual. Two types of intelligence are to each other in mutually complementary relations. Therefore, when due to the age weakening of fluid intelligence the ability to solve certain types of problems is reduced, there are very effective strategies to overcome these problem situations through the advanced features of crystallized intelligence, which progressively develops almost all of human life. According to the theory of Robert Stenberg, intelligence includes three ...

If we look at the reflection of leadership in professional and social activities, women often give men the initiative. Despite the fact that the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty first century gave the world quite a large number of women politicians world-wide (Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi and others), women's leadership in politics had not yet become a commonplace to society. And it is not that a woman wants to become a leader, but the fact that some of the problems of society a woman can decide better: problems of motherhood, childhood, and ...

Gender bias goes against the growing spirit of women. With females scaling heights in almost every field, subtle forms of discrimination as glass ceiling obliterate the very nature of a transparent and healthy business ambiance. While the induction of three women combat pilots for the first time in Indian Air Force speaks of their grit, changing entrepreneurial landscape in the America and the rest of the world well reflects the growing potential of the fairer sex. Ironically, a significant gender gap still exists in employer firms despite increasing numbers of women as owners of small businesses. In addition to ...

The subject of women in combat is one of the least studied in the history and the literature. This topic is very important in the context of gender and many other issues. For many years, researchers have been interested in the issues of women as the part of one of the most terrible events in the world. As it is known from the ancient times, war is a men's business, and nobody have doubted in this fact. Moreover, women always acted as passive victims, i.e. "damsels in distress", having secondary importance at war. However, many researchers, who have studied ...

Nicotye Samayualie, Canadian Inuit Cape Dorset Artist

Research Paper Introduction Nicotye Samayualie, a Canadian Inuit from Cape Dorset, was born on the 23rd of November 1983. Her parents are Johnny Tunnillie Samayualie and Kudluajuk Ashoona, and her grandmother is a famous graphic artist, Keeleemeeoome Samayualie. She has clearly inherited her grandmother's artistry, whose art works were one of those few exhibited in the Cape Dorset yearly print anthology in the 1970s and 1980s (Spirit Wrestler Gallery, 2016). Nicotye has developed a strong fascination with the display, arrangements, and layouts of contrasting images in natural and artificial objects. Numerous of her artworks portray common images like crates ...

The issue is whether the student based teacher evaluation is gender biased. Gender bias is a common social vice that is described as the subjective perception that some people are better positioned to perform some task based on their masculinity of their femininity. For instance, most societies hold that boys or men are better at academics, rationality and in most cases possess socially unruly behavior while their female counterparts are socially interactive, more disciplined and better in arts and languages (Templeton, 2016). With such gender-based bias ingrained in the society, the fundamental question is whether students are affected by ...

Our modern world is full of implacable disparities. All living beings are classified into different categories. The animals, for example, will often be categorized into those who can run, feel coming danger and be able to escape it. The biggest diversity ever is probably that of the gender difference and gender stereotypes. No matter how much time passes, there will always exist that inevitable opposition between two sexes. Though stereotypical views of men and women have highly reduced in recent years, many people still believe that some of the gender-role stereotypes retained till the present day. The two genders ...

A Broad Definition of Terms

When the term ‘gender studies’ is mentioned, most individuals reflect on women’s suffrage. However, there are myriad facets of societal impacts and feminist history that describe gender studies. As depicted by a number of researches, gender study was a term that was previously used to refer to women’s studies. However, researches conducted by various international universities proved that the term turned students off thus changed it to gender studies. The use of gender studies enabled most universities particularly those in the United Kingdom and Mexico to legitimize the study of feminism and gender. From this time, the ...

Ibsen exposes the life experiences of his main female character Nora to show the way patriarchal societies deprive women their freedom by suppressing their views, treating them like children, and through repressive gender roles. Nora’s life and her relationship with her husband, Torvald, is a typical reflection of the importance of self-determination for women within the marriage institution. It is apparent that when a person’s freedom is limited either by choice or by chance, one is not able to establish a relationship based on equality with a partner or other people within the society. The author provides ...

The Role of Advertising in Perpetuating Gender Inequalities

The social structures have always been producing social inequalities. In modern society, this trend still exists. Despite the fact that stereotyped thinking is the basis of human thinking, they (stereotypes) should be constantly revised, as they are constantly losing their relevance. However, most people use stereotypes and think accordingly without taking into account that some things are no longer relevant. Such thinking, in fact, leads to a perception of social inequality as a normal thing. Most of the social inequality is noticed in gender issues. Given that the government and the country`s culture usually dictates many of the ...

Abstract

The work is devoted to the gender role development. The purpose of paper was to study theories associated with gender stereotypes, introduce practical surveys and prove that the childhood is influenced by gender stereotypes. It considers Albert Bandura's Gender Role development theory, gender stereotypes, gender identity, gender-typed behaviors and provides real-life examples. The paper reveals that gender stereotypes are popular in modern society despite the fact they were absent earlier. The first idea is that children experience prejudices about "male" and "female" behavior since early childhood. Then, Albert Bandura suggests that people behave in a certain way because they ...

We live in a world where toys are color-coded blue for boys and pink for girls. TV commercials for certain products food included are focused on men on one hand and others target women. Women have been cultured to be fond of “chick flicks” which are predominantly romantic comedies whereas men are meant to watch action movies and soccer. Roles and plays have been highly gendered. These cultural assumptions have been in existence since time immemorial. Therefore, the thesis by which this paper is guided is two-fold: there is a direct causative relationship between the cultural assumptions on gender ...

Article Summary

Article Summary The premise of this article and the associated research study is that there is a gender gap in areas of reading and math that can, in part, be attributed to gender stereotypes. It understood that there is a significant gap between male and female performance on math assessments. What is not as significantly studied is the performance gap that exists in the area of reading. This is reported as being a surprising fact as the performance gap present in reading is far greater than the gap present in math. According to information from the Organization for Economic ...

Academic journal Evaluation

Purpose: What Was the Author/Authors’ Purpose? What Did The Researcher(S) Propose To Do In The Article? Method: How Did the Author/Authors’ Accomplish Their Purpose? What Methodology Did They Use? Results/Data: What Was The Evidence That The Researchers’ Found That They Used To Justify Their Conclusions? Findings: What Conclusions Were Drawn From The Work? What Did They Learn/Discover? The most crucial discovery was that reporters from bit newspapers were most likely to use descriptors on physical appearance, attire, personal relationships and family when describing men’s basketball. The findings were in contrast to previous studies that indicated that descriptors ...

The media is playing a big role nowadays in the advancement of racial, gender and ethnic stereotypes. This is taking place through major TV shows, radio hosting, and even the print media has joined the interplay of advancing the stereotypes. Some TV shows in America present this racial and gender stereotypes that have the social and cultural impact on the society. Pozner has come out clearly to give his argument and analysis in some these televisions shows to bring out the reality of the dark side of TV indicates that advance ethnic, racial and gender stereotypes (Pozner 339). Pozner's ...

In her research, Janet Shibley Hyde argues that women and men have significantly more similarities than differences, despite the common belief in the opposite. This issue has been gaining more interest lately because of the growing attention to gender inequality issues and the increasing popularity of the women’s empowerment movement. Indeed, men and women has been divided by stereotypes strengthened by numerous pseudoscientific books for a very long time, and the main concern the scientific community has is about the effects of such stereotypes on women’s and men’s well-being and success in life that can be ...

The Experience

I have experienced numerous situations in which I felt pressured to conform to rigid and idealistic gender stereotypes. Specifically, during my adolescent years, there was a prevailing stereotype that girls liked the aggressive, violent, and uncaring behaviors that their male counterparts exhibited. I was interested in a particular woman in my neighborhood, and I intended to start a serious love relationship with her. However, I was always shy; therefore, was unable to approach her. However, after learning the stereotype about girls as held by my peers, I decided to employ the method in my bid to win her affection. ...

Jane Hardman

Cambridge University Culture helps us to understand system of values, way of living of different social groups. Culture has an essential influence on gender and gender roles. In our times, there is a lot of information which we perceive every day, but sometimes we cannot choose it correctly. People evaluate this information which concerns their gender and think how they must function with the society. I decided to think over the impact of culture in the gender role. The first example of such impact is an employment. When we were children, we have already stereotyped opinions about professions. Women ...

Differences in gender and, more aptly, gender stereotypes, exist in all manner of advertisement. Sometimes they are blatant and impossible to ignore. Other times, as is the case with the Samsung 840 EVO SSD advertisement, the stereotypes shown between men and women are elusive and delicate. They are sometimes completely veiled behind the excitement of a new product and the frustration of a slow computer. The characters are a stay-at-home mom with no obligations other than household chores, and two men, one a student and the other a professional. Both have vast knowledge about computers. Regardless of how well ...

INTRODUCTION

There exists some historical events which have been set aside to provide analysis of gender differences between male as well as a female in the workplace. Whether there is existence of gender in the way they influence, lead or else communicate, women as well as men have often been viewed as a set of people who are different and unique. Such differences have put women within the workplace at a disadvantage situation to some extent because they have been perceived as inferior when compared to men. This has been because of cultural as well as historical gender inequalities. However, ...

Introduction: what is leadership?

Leadership is the focus of many discussion that aims to identify this or that dimension of leadership, starting from who is a leader, what makes a good and effective leader and ending up with the question 'who is a better leader: a man or a woman?', which presents a great interest for numerous researchers. Before moving to the gender aspect of leadership, it is worth clarifying what leadership itself is, however, it seems that a final definition hasn't been written yet. Probably, it won't be written ever. It is because of the fact that there're no criteria by which ...

Introduction

Using the social media platform Facebook, I went through my friend list to view people’s profile pictures and see who fit into gender stereotypes and who did not. It was an interesting experiment to take a look at my friend group and see who I am identifying and how they fit into my expectations. After thinking about this I applied my thoughts and looked through my own profile pictures to determine if I have been portraying myself in stereotypical gender roles or not.

Gender Stereotypical Profile Pictures

Female Upon pursuing the main profile pictures and looking for the five females that best ...

Essay 2.1

Swiffer's Gendered Ad Since men and women are different in numerous ways, it must not come as a surprise that advertisements depict men and women in different ways. Stereotypes are formed through the continuous, prolonged exposure of viewers to the various devices of imagery. These stereotypes begin to pray on our gender, and eventually help us form a bias in the media, and in our homes and lives. The notion, message, or idea of an array of depictions must be taken into consideration when analyzing stereotypes. The recent print ad of Swiffer Bissell Steamboost can be used as an ...

Oprah Winfrey and Antonio Simoes represent the leadership styles of two different genres. While Winfrey highlights the feminist leadership traits, Simoes is an openly gay head of the HSBC's UK operations. Whether Winfrey's African nationality has supported or negated her efforts to go the top in a country of Whites is a matter of concern. Likewise, it is to be seen that how will Simoes be perceived as a leader when many among us are apprehensive of gay leadership. It is for these reasons these two leaders have been selected for the discussion. There is a plethora of literature ...

Article Review

Article Review I review such article as “Gender Flux: Transatlantic Influence on Fashioning the Cross-dresser in American Silent Cinema” by author Ricardo E. Zulueta. It has been published in the journal “The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture” in 2015. It should be noted, that until now, there is no single view of the nature of gender. On the one hand, gender is associated with the models, which are developed for the scientific description of the problems associated with gender issues. On the other hand, gender may be considered as a social phenomenon, which is created by people in ...

Selected Approach: B

Question: Does this representation create, reinforce or challenge stereotypes? Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Shonda Rhymes’ “Scandal” Throughout the history of television, women have been presented as passive and submissive, and have been constructed as sexual objects. However, more recently, groundbreaking television series have begun to break the gender stereotype by presenting female characters in strong, authoritative roles which were usually reserved to men. Shonda Rhymes’s “Scandal” fits in this trend, centering upon Olivia Pope, a unique character who challenges the stereotypes by presenting an empowered African American woman. However, Olivia is only one of a series of masculine ...

The recent print ad of Swiffer Bissell Steamboost promotes traditional gender stereotypes because it shows that domestic work is a woman's strength, something that she should be proud of. Because men and women are different in numerous ways, it must not come as a surprise that advertisements depict men and women in a different way. Stereotypes are formed through the continuous, prolonged exposure of viewers to the various devices of imagery. The notion, message, or idea of an array of depictions must be taken into consideration when analyzing stereotypes. As explained by Sheehan (77), a sole ad or any ...

Hunters and Gatherers in the Classroom

Abstract At the young age, schoolchildren are very segregated by sex and gender stereotypes still define the norms of their looking and behavior. This requires interference from the community and educators. The male role of hunters and female of gatherers seems to be subjected by the course of history, but if to think more deeply, parents raise these associations in their children by themselves. Popularity in school does not necessarily mean an educational success or exceptional leadership skills. It is very difficult for both ‘hunters’ and ‘gatherers’ to maintain their status or to win the place among the popular ...

Research Purpose

It has to be reckoned that there has been an ongoing debate that essentially focuses on the position of the two genders in workplace. The fact that the society is governed by the patriarchal parameters and practices goes on to complicate the matter. Often it has been opined that women are on the receiving end of the gender bias and they face discrimination in many spheres of life. One can very well be reminiscent of the struggle of the women of the world society for gaining right to suffrage- something that testifies to the discriminatory standards of the society ...

Question Three

Definition and importance of ethnographic fieldwork in cultural anthropology Ethnography refers to a branch of anthropology that offers scientific interpretations and descriptions of human behavior. Ethnography fieldwork focuses on the systematic study of a particular group of people through observations, and the fieldwork focuses on the interactions and actions of the humans. Ethnographic field work can also be defined as a recording and an analysis of society or culture and it depends on the observations of the participants which result in a written account of an institution, people or place. Ethnographic field work focuses on specific aspects of the ...

Intellectual Elaboration

Among the many examples of gender or racial stereotyping that can be found from film or media, I chose the following; Gender Stereotypes within Children, Labels Against Women, and Raise the Red Latern. The Gender Stereotypes within Children has emphasis on how children respond from the given questions about the difference between a boy and a girl. The Labels Against Women talks about a commercial advertisement that represents women empowerment. The movie entitled Raise the Red Lantern demonstrates polygamy happened in China during the era of warlords, before the civil war of the ...

The society develops, progresses in all spheres of activity, however, at the same time, produces certain behaviors and related stereotypes, corresponding to a popular worldview. Gender relations during each cultural epoch formed an appropriate worldview, producing and perpetuating gender stereotypes, using feminine and masculine personality characteristics. So, antiquity formed a patriarchal worldview, which is still relevant to the present day, however, the democratic tendencies in the modern society have led to the emergence of gender studies, which help the society to overcome certain gender conventions and stereotypes that prevalent in the minds of the society for centuries. Therefore antiquity is an ...

Aubrey, J.S., & Frisby, C.M. (2011). Sexual objectification in music videos: a content analysis comparing gender and genre. Mass Communication and Society 14: 475-501.

In this article, Aubrey and Frisby (2011) create a coding system which measures the correlations between representations of women and sexual objectification. According to their findings, female artists provide a greater amount of sexual objectification in their videos, and are placed under greater pressure to appear more attractive and glamorous. They are also more likely to showcase sexually suggestive behavior and attitudes. This evidences adds to the argument that women are problematically presented in popular culture and media, as they are placed under a male gaze to be as attractive as possible; a woman’s sexuality is shown to be her primary feature, ...

I can’t believe that in the 21st century, women still live behind men in terms of roles in the society and even in terms of salary. During one of our class discussions, our professor showed us a video about a man ending the career of his wife to stay at home and care for the family. As a man, I felt ashamed and angry not only against the husband but most especially to society that reduces women into plain housewives. I felt ashamed that men like me still act backwards. Despite the number of empowered women who are thriving in ...

Gender stereotyping involves simplistic generalizations concerning gender attributes, individual roles and differences. These stereotypes could result into negative or positive impacts on one or both genders. However, stereotypes are not the true or accurate reflection of what they communicate. They are mainly composed of gender assumptions with no evidence to support. There are different stereotypes for different genders. Stereotypes have changed over time as human beings and society evolves and research has rendered some of the stereotypes null and void.

Female stereotypes are those unproven beliefs about female members of the society. In most societies, the stereotypes begin as ...

An Ethical Analysis of Contemporary United States Society

Women have always been the victim of lesser treatment, even after being granted the right to vote. In World War II, the historic practice of rape of women by soldiers in the military was still accepted (DeLaet, 2006, p. 125). Some Southern states with Republican governments have limitations on a woman’s reproductive rights, including their right to abortion and contraceptives. However, women have made many advancements in the past century that has advanced their position in the world and society. Since female activism began in the early nineteenth century, women have slowly risen above their previously dictated status as ...

For this extra credit assignment I chose a popular commercial of a multiline insurance company Esurance (see figure 1). This commercial was ranked #47 among other commercial aired during the season of Super Bowl XLIX by the USA Today. Figure 1

Snapshot from "Sorta Mom" Official Ad

Source: Esurance Sorta Mom Official Ad. (2015, February 1). It is quite difficult to decide whether it is a bad or a good commercial. On the one hand, "Sorta Mom" is a very funny and creative commercial, which is a good thing. On the other hand, it follows some gender stereotypes, which is definitely not a good point. However, the commercial clearly indicates ...

Sex-segregated schools have gained interest in recent times due to the underachievement of many students. Educators nowadays are concerned about the issue of how to reform and organize the modern system of education in the USA in order it to work more efficiently. Many researchers posit that single-sex classes may have a positive effect on both males and females educational performances. The question whether girls and boys should be taught separately is quite ambiguous, meanwhile, the number of sex-segregated classes in the schools of the United States continues to grow. With the rapid spread of this educational practice, the issue ...

The interrelationship between language and gender is not only complex, but also diverse. Feminists have been anxious as the term gender entails treating males and females as if they had the same political power, rights, upbringing, access to education and many others . Questions and criticisms of language have emerged due to the concern that language is a powerful medium, which both reflects and constructs the world. Language presents stereotypes of both males and females, sometimes to the disadvantage of males, but more often to the disadvantage of the females. Language has been historically man-made with the male forms reflecting the ...

Introduction

This research plan originated from a course focusing on research design proposals in political science. This proposal will summarize the existing information and find room for discovery and additional development of the dialogue surrounding women’s rights worldwide, specifically using Saudi Arabia as a focal lens. It will focus on the effect of the American media’s influence on Saudi Arabian people, and their consequent disposition towards gender equality. It draws upon data collected from numerous publications reporting on perception of America media and any changes that Saudis may have in opinion regarding women’s contributions and place in society. ...

Education is a conventional mode of receiving knowledge needed for people to pursue professional aspirations. What shape such aspirations are schools that narrow children’s scope of interests, determine the areas of expertise and, most importantly, provide with knowledge. To make school environment better in terms of efficiency, school officials came to introduce class differentiation years ago. The system of single-class schools had not regained its popularity with American parents until 2000s. On paper, single class schools handle the problem of bullying, however, not necessarily. Better school performance and mental skills development are believed to be the case in such ...

Introduction

The modern times and the increased participation of women in the labour market formulate a consistent discourse for gender equality that shapes the social, economic, political, legal and technological spheres across the world. The prevalence of the feminist discourse currently focuses on equal organizational opportunities between men and women in the workplace, targeting equal payment and equal career development opportunities. Although women work shoulder to shoulder with their men counterparts in public and private companies, there are still visible discrepancies, mostly related to the leadership positions, which are still considered more suitable for men, since they are dominating the occupancy ...

For centuries, humankind has been forming stereotypes about men and women, which are still in operation, regardless of time and quality differences of personality of men and women. Gender stereotypes are beliefs that have developed in the socio-cultural environment about how men and women behave. Since they are formed under the influence of society, they are subject to changes. Gender stereotypes are often related to distribution of family roles (a woman – a mother and homemaker, a man – earner), competencies (women are more suited for humanitarian work or service sector, men are technicians or managers) and politics (politics – not for women).

There is distinguished a set of binary oppositions, stereotypically attributed to men and women (Peterson, Puhl and Luedicke, 2012):

Qualities, ...

Use of Video Games among the Youth

Introduction The exercise of video games has been on the rise with the increased use of computers and the internet. Video games have grown to form one of the most popular entertainment industries in North America. The sale of entertainment software in North America grew by 3.4%. There is a growing concern of the use of video games amongst the youth. Majority of the video game enthusiasts are aged between 6-17 years. The growing use of video games raised concern amongst researchers. There is the concern of the content that video games have on teenagers. Also there is a growing ...

Introduction

This essay explores the issue of gender discrimination at workplace and the impact it can have on employee performance. Gender issues have been a part of human civilization since time immemorial but were only brought to attention around the 1980s. Historically, gender discrimination has been thought to be most obvious in the everyday workplaces and continues to be so. Many factors such as the gender based stereotypes as well as the organizational structures have been considered as the factors behind such discrimination. It is obvious that the working environments differ greatly for men and women in the developing as well ...

Within the modern world, inequality between males and females in the working environment is becoming a serious matter. This is usually assumed as a part of our past while, in the current world, men and women are recruited into the working environment in equal numbers (TRENTHAM & LARWOOD, 1998). Despite this assumption, this is not yet a true. For instance, 98% of CEO positions in big organization are held by men while women hold 2%. Therefore, it is worth noting that inequality in leadership is a true issue that ought to be considered and focused on. Based on this, it is evident that women ...

The first piece of artwork I chose is an advertisement from the New World Pasta Company. They carry a line of foods under the brand name of the Prince brand. The advertisement uses the famous and very recognizable artwork, the Mona Lisa by artist Leonardo DaVinci. This was a print ad which is no longer in circulation; however the image is available at the Hess Design website. The purpose of the ad was to sell spaghetti sauce. The ad was attempting to evoke the emotion of happiness. Happiness was implied because spaghetti is often seen as a comfort food. The New ...

Are Men Held To Unrealistic Standards in Terms of Gender Stereotypes and Expectations

When people think of gender inequality and unfair standards they usually think of woman and the struggles they have endured and continue to endure in the world. They faced gender stereotypes like a woman’s place in in the kitchen or the home not in the working man’s world. They still continue to face a world that holds them to different expectations. We don’t often stop to think of the struggle men are constantly dealing with. The truth is men also face their own challenges to try standing outside of the normal expectations and not be labeled a stereotypical man. ...

In 1995, popular hip hop artist Tupac Shakur released a song entitled “California Love” that topped the Billboard Music Charts. In 2011, Time magazine named the single on their list of All Time 100 Songs (Adams). The song’s video also became an instant success. The video begins with an image of a woman undressing for the visual pleasure of man who nods his head at the camera with a smile as if to affirm his desirability. Most of the video features scenes of a party where scantily clad women dance around the artists and includes several close-up shots of women’s bottom’ ...

Article Summary II

G. Tendayu Viki, Kristina Massey, and Barbara Masser Focus of the article The article by Viki, Massey, & Masser, (2005) showcases how paternalistic attitudes towards female offenders may influence people’s perception of the crime. The authors prove that benevolent sexism turns hostile, when the female offenders commit crimes that defy the gender stereotypes. This paper uses the example of Myra Hindley, a criminal, who along with her accomplice murdered children, made videos of the murders, and disposed the dead bodies. The crime committed by Ms. Hindley defied the gender stereotype (women as caregivers and mothers) and quite expectedly ...

Phaedra is a play written by Jean Racine in 1677. It is overflowing with an ambience of patriarchy. This is a structure that views and treats women as lesser humans than men. It sees women as weaker creatures having emotions that are more powerful than reason. Moreover, women are duty bound to give sexual pleasures to their husbands, look after the children and manage the hearth. In a patriarchal society, men have the sovereign power over their wives and families. In other words, the wife is a property of the husband. Patriarchy never sees women as decision makers, and leaders along with men. ...