...Marriage and Divorce and the Way They Impact Women There are a lot of factors that contribute to the reason why divorce has increased in the last twenty years. Some argue financial difficulty, serious illness, career failure, job loss, or even midlife crisis. Rarely does a person hear the possibility that it is because women have become more independent. A woman’s role in today’s marriage has changed drastically from the past. Women are evolving into being more independent outside the marriage. Women now have the same rights as men; therefore, they have more independence and impacts the way they view marriage and divorce. At the turn of the 20th century, if women found they were not happy in their marriage, they began to explore other options. Women decided that divorce was a viable option in order to get out of an unhappy marriage; consequently, the number of divorces grew. No matter how independent women have become, there is still inequality that puts men in front of women when divorce is involved. Women that choose divorce seem to suffer more financially because the workforce still pays men more than women in most careers. Women who opt for divorce and have children run a higher chance of poverty due to lower income compounded by the need to pay for childcare. In a situation where the husband’s income is relied upon, a no fault divorce can contribute to a woman’s struggle after divorce. Often after divorce women are poverty stricken. Men may be required to pay alimony...
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...Health problems do not affect all women and men the same way, women and men are both subjected to different risk depending on their current health situation. Focusing on ethnicity, age, health care coverage and household income; health issues can arise and affect women and men. First, we must understand that having the poorest health does make it easier but, it is a beginning towards identifying the societal, enriching and policy-related factors that influence the health of women and men. Additionally, that benefiting from targeted instructive interventions, policies, and programmatic resources can be an asset towards this disease. For this reason, research has found that women do have higher blood pressure when compared to men. There are roughly 3.3 million women age 18 and older in New York City: 42 percent are between 25 and 44 years old, 44 percent have a household income less than $25,000, and 28 percent do not have a high school degree. As a reflection, the diversity is not on one culture alone, however there is Hispanic, Black or Asians all a part of the comparison under women and they too come with different lifestyles (The Endocrine Society, 2013). Lifestyle modifications Women are less likely to have their blood pressure controlled than men with lifestyle interventions alone, maybe because women are not as much successful in losing weight. Weight decrease is of great importance for blood pressure management in women, that’s why there is elevated popularity...
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...‘Women are chewed up by the plot disassembled in….the way Victor the scientist dismembers the she-monster…They are martyrs and victims.’ How helpful do you find this view of Shelley’s presentation of women. The quote is suggesting that Mary Shelley is to blame for the women’s deaths in the novel and is comparing her to Victor Frankenstein when he too, destroys a female. However, I find that Mary Shelley is demonizing male patriarchy, as in the novel; it is they who are the destroyers of women. Shelley uses the fate of Justine to expose the unjust institution, in which is the unjust treatment by a male dominated institution. When in trial, Justine says that her “passionate and indignant appeals were lost upon them….and I received their harsh, unfeeling reasoning of those men”, it shows how cold hearted the men were towards her and didn’t take her feelings into consideration as women didn’t have a say in the justice system. The judges problematically base their judgments on facts and lack compassion as they have problematic interpretations – their male way of thinking blocks compassion. Mary Shelley describes Justine as a “saintly sufferer”; similarly, the quote refers to women as ‘martyrs’, this idealizes women as they are too pure, and have done no wrong in the novel. She attempts to empower women which shows how incredibly passionate she is, however, the males such as Frankenstein feel threatened by this and allows her to die In the courts of justice. Shelley...
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...1145 26 September 2013 Women and their Portrayal in Society The portrayal of women in society is an issue that has started to create problems among people in our society. We have given women so many stereotypes to live up to it making it almost impossible to be truly accepted by society. With ads starting to target younger generations through social sites and television, much of what you see now targets certain demographics. These demographics are women of all ages. They are using sex, the historical ideas of women, and Wall Street to abuse the images of women. Companies use the looks of women to sell their products and it is harming the lives of everyone in today’s society. We are so influenced today by the thought of what people think that we will listen to anyone and anything telling us what to do and how to look, no matter what the cost is. The media uses women in order to sell objects because they can attract both men and women by portraying a woman a certain way. They use women as sex objects in more than one way because “sex sells”. The way they attract men is by making a woman look sexually appealing. Ad companies throughout all of the media do this because they believe that all men will be drawn to an ad with a sexual woman on it. The way they pose her and the clothes she wears are all strategic moves for the companies; it helps them sell. However, this method is creating a negative view of all women in society. They draw in women the same way they capture a man’s attention...
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...Throughout history, women have always been treated lesser than men. They have come second to men in many ways. They gained the right to vote, to have an education, and the even the right to protect their own country, after men. They have been labeled as less able to do things and less deserving to earn a living because that's the way its been for a long time, things could and should change, but the way the media portrays women is not exactly helping. Even though things for women have gotten better since then, women are still being affected by the ideas and prejudices from the past. In the media, women are often sexualized, they are seen as just pretty accessory. Research shows that when women are sexualized, they are seen as less human, and...
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...from the progressive era affected lives of women today? Think of the life you have today and imagine not being able to have the rights that other people do have. From 1848-1920 many women in the US fought to achieve the same political ranking as men. The women had to go through hard strikes and had many conventions to reach there goal. The women's suffrage movement during the progressive era affected the lives today in many different ways. In 1848 women and men gathered in Seneca Falls, New York (July 19-20) to talk about the problems of women's rights. The demands for women's suffrage began to get stronger in 1840s. For almost 100 years, women (and men) had been fighting to be able to vote. Women were made...
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...Over several years, women have overcome numerous hardships. Bearing the role of a woman it was expected for them to have been belittled and mistreated. Required to be obedient to their husbands and the rest of the men they come in contact with, women had only a few roles which mainly consisted of cooking cleaning and bearing children. During this era of time being a woman was a minority in itself let alone being inferior. Men were known to have a lack of respect for women, and would often treat them as if they were slaves. During the time of the Greeks Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, and Aristophanes women were depicted as wise, powerful, revengeful and deceitful creatures. These four characteristics show the similarities and differences...
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...the stronger sex. Women have been deemed “hysterical” and “weak”, but they are far from those words. Women have undergone different gender stereotypes, while men take them for granted and see them as theirs. Judeth Butler made it known that gender roles were fictional. Spanish, African American, post-colonial women and Native American women faced horrendous obstacles throughout their life with gender roles and unjust events – and those obstacles are still being faced in today’s culture. Gender roles and gender stereotypes are what men have based their whole life existence around. “All gendered behavior in our society is an act.”...
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...The questions brings to mind so many different answers because although males and females are different biologically, the statement ‘men and women use language differently’ proposes the idea that we are different in so many other ways. It is said that women are more verbal than men who prefer action over words. However, it is difficult to generalise because individual differences plays a role and factors such as age, context, class, background, occupation and education will affect the amount of talk a person delivers and how much dominance they will have in the conversation. Table 1 shows how men and women cooperate in conversations with the use of turn taking, speaking time and interruptions. The average number of seconds all the women spoke for is 22.9 seconds and for men it is 60 seconds – clearly illustrating the idea that men like to speak more to get their opinions out in the world. Women are said to go along with this because they don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings and so would want them to continue. Also, we can see that men tended to interrupt more. Man F interrupted 8.0 times and Woman B interrupted 0.0 times. This clearly shows the gender inequalities between men and women, men being the ones that don’t care about feelings and women being the over-sensitive type in terms of supporting everyone’s opinions. On the other hand, we can see from the table that men interrupted eachother more. This may be because they have more subject knowledge and want to prove that...
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...Should women really be defined by their body image and beauty? “The Fashion industry is no stranger to stereotypes, urging women that being supper thin without an ounce of body fat or carvers is the way to be sex. Contemporary society seems to believe that women are supposed to look certain way. The message on the Victoria secret ad, is trying to communicate by using “The perfect body” campaign to promote their lingerie line. This ad represents the ideal type of body that women should have to be attractive in today’s society. On the second ad, a ZU shoe is promoting its products, by using slander woman to persuade the viewers to buy their shoes. The two images depict the stereotype of the unobtainable and idealized version of perfect looking women by using body proportions, clothing and facial depiction....
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...form the way they see the world. One of the problems with media influencing personal opinions includes stereotyping, especially regarding gender. How media depicts genders controls the way society evolves. The way women are portrayed in media today is not helping their advancement. Media, specifically advertising, photoshops women and bends the reality of their real appearance, causing girls to form self-esteem issues. When women and young girls are shopping they see models in photos or advertisements that have “perfect bodies,” and aspire to look like them because...
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...According to crime statistics, men are more likely than women to commit crime. However, this statistical difference may be due to the way in which the criminal justice system deals with men and women. In some cases, the nature of female crimes means that they are less likely to be recorded. Men and women seem to commit different types of crime. Those committed by women are seen as more serious if they go against expected gender norms. For men, crime can be seen as an expression of masculinity and a way of gaining social status. Using material from Item B and elsewhere, assess sociological explanations of gender differences in the patterns of crime. There are an array of sociological explanations and theories as to why there is a significant difference not only in the crime rates of different genders but also in the crimes committed by each. Firstly,item B states that men are more likely to commit crime than women, official statistics support this statement as they show that of the 1.2 million criminals convicted and sentenced in 2011, only 24% of those were women and 72% were men; this shows that men are 3x more likely to be convicted and sentenced than women. There are a variety of explanations for this significant difference in criminal convictions; Parsons, and other functionalists, argue that this difference is due the Sex Role theory which states that men and women have different roles within the family, the women has the expressive role which causes her to be more...
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...treated women and couples in the last two decades, I find that as I get older, I make a lot more comments to both male and female patients about how the sexes differ. Let’s take an every day example. A woman complains that her husband or male partner does not listen. What does this mean? Women often complain that a male counterpart wants to provide advice when she talks about a problem. We women can feel unheard in this situation, as we would like our partners to remark on the content of our feelings. Sound familiar? When I am talking with patients, I often try to normalize the above example as one way that men and women are different. Although it may be that a couple is not compatible because of difficulties communicating, I am rarely worried about a partnership based on different communication styles. Rather, I try to educate men, women and couples about the differences in perceptions regarding what is ideal communication. Because a man offers advice does not mean that he does not care. A man offering pragmatic sensibilities seems to be evidence that he is listening! When I say this to my women patients, they are often relieved.Haut du formulaire Bas du formulaire Yet, I find myself sometimes experiencing a curious anxiety when I point out sex and gender differences between women and men. The way men and women listen and talk is just one example. I can get even more anxious when I imply that men process emotions differently and they respond to feelings in a way that can...
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...Judith Butler, a post-modern feminist, developed an account of gender and femininity that revolutionized the ways in which gender is thought about. Butler was an instrumental figure in the attempt to change the way gender was thought about in a post-modern society. For Butler, men and women are not born with conditions of femininity and masculinity that are often assumed of males and females. Instead, she argues that men and women are socialized and actually learn to perform acts associated with being a woman, or being a man. Her key premise asserts that “gender identity is performed” and thus, performances of masculinity and femininity are not natural to those born with the genitalia of men or women (Seidman, 2013, p. 215). Butler also argued...
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...2013 How Women Are Portrayed in Music In today’s society, the genres of rap and R&B are one of the most popular forms of music. Conversely, the ideas and lyrics of many songs fall into these genres tend to be violent, offensive, vulgar and sexist. We can see that sexism in rap music is apparent through the negative portrayal of women found in both the lyrics and music videos. This is an important issue because rap is so popularized today that these negative depictions of women, especially African American women, is potentially giving its viewers the idea that it is acceptable to treat women in such demeaning ways. Most of the time, we do not comprehend the message that is being sent through songs we listen to. We as society need to become more conscious of the music we listen to. Over the years, rap and rap music videos have repetitively become more and more sexual and degrading towards women. Rap has been criticized various times for this reason. The excuses used to justify the misogyny in rap are inadequate and lack accurate support. The most effective way for this continuous cycle to end is if the fight and protest comes from the women themselves. Men are the problem in the objectification of women but in order for it to stop, women need to step up and take control of the situation. Misogyny and degradation of women does exist in almost every genre of music, yet the Elmhorst 2 one genre that completely revolves around belittling women is rap. The topic of women being...
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