...This study is aimed at understanding and observing rule compliance between men and women. It examines the gender difference in compliance and/or conversion with people placing their rubbish in provided bins within a food court environment, as hypothesised women were more likely to be compliant with disposing their rubbish. Social influence is vital to gage individual’s behaviour. There is long-standing evidence in social psychology that people strive for consistency within their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviour (Festinger, 1957). Therefore to uphold this level of consistency individuals must comply with the group or majorities attitudes, beliefs and behaviours. It is an important force keeping groups together and facilitating communication (Bond & Smith, 1996). Disposing of rubbish in a bin is a pro-environmental behaviour which can be categorised as a positive social norm. Social norms are defined as ‘rules and standards that are understood by members of a group, that guide and/or constrain social behaviour without the force of law’ (Cialdini & Trost, 1998). Adhering to these social rules is described in terms of conformity or adversely conversion. Various social norms can alter an individual’s response to a specific situation depending on their environment and individual gains from doing so. For example to judge whether a person will dispose of their rubbish one must account for their personal norms and perceived social norms within the culture. Cialdini et al....
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...Abstract In this study I will be investigating whether Gaydar does in fact exist and if one gender has a stronger Gaydar than the other. I will also be testing to see is both males and females can distinguish other homosexuals based on appearance alone as well as being able to tell which ones are not homosexual. I will be attempting to find out if people that are straight can also tell if someone is homosexual based on appearance alone as viewed in a full length color picture. I will be using 40 participants (20 males and 20 females) that either identify sexually as gay or straight. The participants will all be shown a series of 20 pictures for 30 seconds each, of males and females, and will be asked to identify whether they think the person shown in the picture is either straight or gay. The males and females in the pictures will have been previously identified as being either gay or straight. All results, statements and answers will be kept confidential. Does Gaydar Exist? The issue of a person’s sexual identity has always been a controversial issue for some. When it comes to the Gay and Lesbian community there is a saying or “Theory” that someone who identifies themselves sexually as homosexual has a sixth sense that is referred to as “Gaydar”. This means that for some reason it is believed that other homosexuals can spot each other out based on appearance alone. This idea that gays may have some sort of sixth sense or ability to tell if someone else...
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...lack of sufficient evidence to prove that there was a genuine dispute as to any material fact for a Title VII discrimination claim. (R. 1.) This Court of Appeals reviews a district court’s grant of motion for summary judgment pursuant to federal rule 56(c) de novo. (R. 1.) According to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(Title VII), it shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. 42 U.S.C.A. § 2000e-2(a)(1) (1964). The statute’s language does not include gender or sexual orientation it only includes race, color, religion, sex, or national origin as a protected classes from discrimination. Legislative history has illustrated how congress has refused to include transsexuals or sexual orientation in the Title VII statute. The legislative...
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...[Hook/anecdote on observations of nephews etc] A few years ago, a video of a five-year-old girl named Riley went viral. Standing in a decidedly pink toy aisle she laments, “Why do all the girls have to buy pink stuff?” Riley is not the only one questioning the ways in which toys are gender-stereotyped and marketed, and some go so far to argue that, in addition to shaping gender identity, it in contributes to gender inequality. [additional discussion/framing main questions of the paper etc] Gender, not to be confused with sex, which is biologically defined by reproductive organs, may be understood as a socially constructed range of characteristics that pertain to and differentiate between masculinity and femininity. To further clarify, “male” and “female” are sex categories,...
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...n the American media, gender roles are still prevalent. The adaptation of gender roles has occurred because they are socially constructed. Gender roles are distinct and defined in the media. With great ferocity, gender roles are perceptible in our exposure everyday to the media, such as in advertising. The media demonstrates clearly the imposed and inevitable gender roles. For example, advertising for cleaning supplies consists of a woman stating the difficulty of removing stains. Advertising for motor oil consists of a man and his luxury car, often with a beautiful woman by his side. The function of gender roles are impediments of dreams, hopes and the future. Limitations, among both sexes, are set when gender roles are present in the media. Certain expectations and criteria are involved with gender roles, crippling the individual to act against the status quo because of the...
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...IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NORTHEASTERN DIVISION -----------------------------------------------------------x KEVIN BROWN No. 2:14-cv-00011 Plaintiff, Judge Sharp AMENDED COMPLAINT V. JURY DEMAND MISTER WAYNE'S SCHOOL OF UNISEX HAIR DESIGN Defendant. ----------------------------------------------------------x PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT I. INTRODUCTION 1. This cause of action arises from the Defendant's deliberately indifferent response to reports of student-on-student harassment based on the Plaintiff's perceived gender-stereotype, and subsequent sex-based discrimination by employees. The Plaintiff was targeted by students and employees of the Defendant because he did not conform to stereotypical expectations of masculinity. The personality traits that the Plaintiff exhibited were considered to be feminine, and triggered an animus in many students, employees, even administrators, because they believed him to be gay. Indeed, even the appearance of homosexuality is enough to ignite a fire of prejudice and hatred among some of the -1- students, employees, and administrators of the Defendant. Employee Bridgette Wilson, publicly demonstrates her enmity against gays by posting images of the anti-gay activist, Phil Robertson, who claims that homosexuals are “going to hell”, onto the popular social networking site, Facebook. Another student...
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...Thirdly, discrimination in schools can be as simple as a teacher refusing to consider a transgender student as the gender with whom they identify. This may be evident when a teacher calls a male whom considers himself a female by his birth name or common boy names. Bathrooms are a huge discussion in schools for transgendered students. Forcing transgender students who have transitioned to use the bathroom that matches their assigned birth sex would actually cause more distraction and problems (Glad, 2014) I agree with the fact that forcing students to use the restroom that coincides with their sex they are born with is a form of discrimination. Like everyone else a transgendered student goes to the restroom for one simple reason, which is to use it. Transgender students want to avoid confrontations at all...
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...Gender dysphoria is a disorder that is growing in awareness. This involves conflict between a person's gender based on what he/she/they identify themselves as, this is when a person is assigned one gender at birth but identifies with the opposite gender. This disorder is more commonly identified as “Transgender”. People with gender dysphoria are uncomfortable with their assigned gender, in order to comfort themselves on this matter is by changing their dress code or hairstyles. Researchers discover this disorder when children grow up and go through puberty seeing changes in their bodies , also children with gender dysphoria are more likely to grow up being bisexual or homosexual. Most of these children grow out of it, however others don’t...
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...Diagnosis: Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Adults Code: 302.85 (F64.1) INTRODUCTION Jasmin “Jas” is a 19 year old girl. Jasmin was born on March 20, 1995 in Buliaw 1, Cotabato City. Her parents name was Mr. Michael and Mrs. Meriam. Jasmin’s mother is an Overseas Filipino Worker in Kuwait and her father is a businessman. Jasmin is the eldest among the four (4) siblings. She took her elementary education in Agape, Elementary School, Cotabato City. Her secondary education in Kabacan National High School and she is now pursuing her tertiary education in University of Southern Mindanao, Kabacan, North Cotabato. When Jasmin was still a kid, her parents decided to divorce because of some reasons. Jasmin’s father left home and find another wife. Also, Jasmin’s mother find another man and both Jasmin’s mother and step father live together with Jasmin and with their new 3 children. Two boys and a girl. Suddenly, Jasmin’s mother and step father decided to separate and have their own home together with their new children. Jasmin was left to Telican, Jasmin’s grandmother. Few years after, Jasmin’s mother, Meriam decided to go to abroad specifically in Kuwait. Because of the absence of parent’s guidance, Jasmin felt so sad and she thought that she was left alone. But despite of this, Jasmin was so thankful that Telican, her grandmother loves Jasmin very much. Since kindergarten, Jasmin felt the incongruence between what she feels inside about her gender and the assigned gender to her...
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...female subordinates, but power-threat theories suggest that women in authority may be more frequent targets. This article analyzes longitudinal survey data and qualitative interviews from the Youth Development Study to test this idea and to delineate why and how supervisory authority, gender nonconformity, and workplace sex ratios affect harassment. Relative to nonsupervisors, female supervisors are more likely to report harassing behaviors and to define their experiences as sexual harassment. Sexual harassment can serve as an equalizer against women in power, motivated more by control and domination than by sexual desire. Interviews point to social isolation as a mechanism linking harassment to gender nonconformity and women’s authority, particularly in male-dominated work settings. Keywords inequality, gender, power, sexual harassment The term sexual harassment was not coined until the 1970s (Farley 1978), but formal organizational responses have since diffused rapidly (Dobbin and Kelly 2007; Schultz 2003). Today, sexual harassment workshops, policies, and grievance procedures are standard features of the human resources landscape, and a robust scholarly literature ties harassment to gender inequalities (Martin 2003) and other forms of workplace discrimination (Lopez, Hodson, and Roscigno 2009). Power,...
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...LeslieMarie Soliven Ms. Lenton English 100s Mon./Wed. (8:00) Defining gender roles Have you ever noticed the difference in the way kids are categorized in gender? Like blue for boys, Pink for girls and trucks for boys, dolls for girls? Kids are brought up differently based on their gender because of their “Gender roles”. Gender roles are defined as a set of behaviors that indicates one’s gender or the image projected by their masculine and feminine qualities, which are also society’s standards for men and women. Gender roles are what determine our future without us noticing it. The things we do as children impact our future more than we think, so boys and girls should be treated the same from the start. Gender identification is the acknowledgment of what particular gender you or any other individual associate with. There is a distinctive influence that comes with gender identification and society tends to influence to the core of breaking down the gender of an individual into male or female. When we were young, our parents made us play with specific toys based on our gender, for example boys had to play with tools, leggos and cars while girls had to play with dolls and kitchen supplies. As children it seems like the right thing to do to play with the toys within our gender but as we grow older we realize that the reason why boys have to play with tools and leggos and girls have to play with kitchen supplies and dolls is because our future is being chosen for us...
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...notable differences in the speaking styles of women and men? In antiquity, the answer was a simple and fascinating ‘yes’. In his essay “Sex Differences”, Ronald Macaulay believes there is no differences as such that affects language acquisition, although social factors interfere in the way they both talk. In contrast, Janet Holmes expresses in her essay “Women talk too much” that language is biased because it is men who have positions of power and seek authority, who judges when talk is too much, when its appropriate, and that women assert themselves less when speech is more valued. As we progress, we shall examine more closely their positions and expose the nature of their claims. In fact, the use and style in language has no bearing on one’s gender. The way one communicates with others has much to do with personal life experiences, self-image, and the overall make up of our personality and character. According to Macaulay, women are more straightforward and use the language in a simpler manner while men tend to be more creative. First of all, men are associated with toughness and aggression, sometimes boldness whereas women are associated with sweetness, being innocent, shy and loyal. These talks are not to be used to judge each of the sexes although in certain occasions they are. Secondly, the author discusses the difference between men and women in the way they develop the language to suit their tone and personality. Various studies prove that women are more likely to...
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...Name (optional):____________________________________ Age: ___ 11-14 ___ 15-18 ___19-22 Gender: ___Female ___Male ___Third Sex DIRECTION: Put a check on a line for your answer. 1. Are you one of the people who uses gay lingo? ___ Yes ___ No ___ No comment 2. Where did you learned/hear this lingo? ___ Friend ___ Third Sex ___ Online Surfing ___ Member of the family ___ No comment 3. The reason you are using this lingo? ___ It’s interesting ___ Faster Communication ___ because it is popular ___ No Comment 4. Are you using gay lingo when you are arguing or fighting with someone? ___ Always ___ Sometimes ___ Never ___ No Comment 5. Where do you usually speak gay lingo? ___ When texting ___ When talking to my friends ___ No comment 6. Is there any disadvantage when you are speaking gay lingo? ___ Yes ___ None ___ No comment 7. What is your view/opinion about gay lingo? ___ It destroy our culture ___ A very interesting language that can express their own thoughts or feelings. ___ A language that I can never fully understand ___ No comment 8. Are you in favor on using this language (gay lingo)? ___ Yes ___ No ___ No comment 9. If yes or no, why should or shouldn’t we continue to use this language? ___ I can express more about myself ___ It is not helpful to my academic aspect ___ It is informal and not appropriate to use in other occasion ___ No comment 10. Situation | Always | Sometimes...
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...Gender is a fundamental feature of popular music. It is evident that gender is one of the main factors in which shape ones identity. When discussing popular music, scholars often emphasize the “distinction between biological reality of sex and the cultural category of gender” (Magrini 2003:1). Your sex refers to your “biological phenomena”, whether you are heterosexual, homosexual etc, however, your gender insinuates the expected rules, behaviours and expectations considered appropriate for being a female or a male (Magrini 2003:1). In this essay I will discuss how, Judith Butler, Simon Frith, Angela McRobbie and Kristen Schilt explore how ‘traditional gender norms’ continue throughout popular music. Judith Butler looked at how gender is a ‘performance’ and that we need to break the traditional gender binaries. Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie discussed how Rock music is male dominated and that women are more or less in the background. Finally, Kristen Schilt discusses how the band Riot Grrrl portrayed girl power, and how Riot Grrrl associated bands tried to keep the girl power going, but still conformed to the traditional female stereotypes, the very thing they were trying to get away from. Describing gender, Butler states that gender is in fact ‘performed.’ We are performing gender as we behave, walk and talk in ways which connects human beings to impressions of being a male or being a female. She argues that there is “an unwitting regulation and reification of gender relations”...
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...Deloitte & Touches’ revolutionary implementation of Women’s Initiative, serves as one of the most transformational changes any company has ever seen. Deloitte thought women were leaving their company in order to fulfill their wifely and motherly duties. The truth of the matter is they left due to not being considered for partnership roles. When CEO Mike Cook at the time realized the significant impact it was having on the business, he implemented a two day intensive workshop for “the Retention and Advancement of Women”. Implementing Women’s Initiative led to a solid foundation surrounded by an environment full of support and development of not just women but men as well. In reading the Women’s Initiative Annual report I felt that women as buyers (WAB) serve as an advancement towards this movement. Currently women account for 85% of all consumer purchases. Deloitte recognized that women executives within the marketplace were increasing. Currently Deloitte is offering a WAB workshop to its professionals in order to better understand the way women process there purchasing decisions. Such examples of how women provided a trusting relationship amongst their clients by providing personal life stories and their way of paying close attention to detail. The WAB has provided other lessons as well for both men and women: 1. Women have a tendency to sit “ face to face” where are men seat beside themselves and consider their mail client “ Right-hand man” 2. Women...
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