...basic one. Genders represent the differences and also similarities between men and women. Both sexes differ from each other greatly in some respect such as physical power, communication and also emotional needs. Body Paragraph: A) Topic Sentence 1: We can clearly see that there are big differences in men and women physical power. -Supporting details: Average height of men is much longer than women and they are also heavier than women. These two physical featured enable men to be 30% much more stronger than women. -Supporting details: Men tend to have more muscle whereas female body is generally composed at a greater body fat percentage. Men have a lower fat percentage than women. A healthy range for men is 10% to 15% of body fat whereas a woman is between 20% and 25% of body fat. -Supporting details: When the body accumulates excess fat, male bodies store it in their abdominal region while women store it in their hip area. -Concluding Sentence: Men have additional advantages in that their resting metabolism is higher than women. B) Topic Sentence 2: There are also big differences between how a men and a women communicate with each other. -Supporting details: Men converse with a focus on achieving social status and avoiding failure, while women focus on achieving personal connection and avoiding social isolation. Men want to report, women want rapport. -Supporting details: Women desire intimacy in conversation to feel connected to others while men...
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...The Difference between Men and Women in Society Over the year’s stereotypes, views and places of men and women in society have changed a lot, some for better and some for worse. Some people tend to believe and follow the crowd maybe because certain things were taught to them growing up and hearing it again from others drills it deeper into their minds. Others possibly could be due to the fact that they are not open minded about things like equality and giving other people chances to move above where they sit. Unfortunately that is how the majority of society is and it doesn’t always change for the better. Men and women both are the same in certain aspects but treated so different in many others. A general setting in where this happens is in society. Before I get into what they are I want to talk about where they come from and what they are influenced by. The main contributor to this subject is the media. Things like music, television, movies, internet and even things like blogs can set an idea or thought and then kick it into motion. The thing that differs how an idea from present time to past time spreads is the media. In this time we have many more influences on society then 50 years ago. Our parents and elders are also a huge part of where we get our views on men and women I society because they get it from their parents and so on, it all goes back so far. Our culture is also so influential on everything we believe nowadays and our culture is what set the ideas for our grandparents...
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...end of the road? On differences between women and men in leadership behaviour 428 Jon Aarum Andersen Received May 2010 Revised October 2010 Accepted November 2010 Faculty of Social Sciences, Lillehammer University College, Lillehammer, Norway, and Per H. Hansson Department of Education, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Abstract Purpose – This study aims to explore behavioural differences between women and men in managerial positions and suggest explanations for differences and similarities. Design/methodology/approach – In order to eliminate any effects of organizational differences on leadership behaviour, this study had public managers responding to questionnaires that measured their leadership style, decision-making style, and motivation profile. Findings – Statistical analyses of data from three groups of Swedish public managers (n ¼ 385) revealed virtually no significant differences in behaviour between female and male managers. Regardless of whether there is a female or male majority of employees or a female or male majority of managers, no effect on leadership behaviour occurs. Originality/value – A number of studies indicate that managers’ behaviour is different in different types of organizations. This study suggests, therefore, that, independent of gender, organizational and demographic characteristics modify leadership behaviours, thus explaining similarities in leadership behaviour. Keywords Women, Men, Gender, Leadership behaviour...
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...The idea of exploring what is masculinity is an exercise mostly conducted by white, heterosexual men in North American and European societies (Blais and Dupuis-Déri, 2012), and seems to be based around the ramifications of feminism and the historic domination of women, both in public and private spheres (Petersen, 1998). Indeed, Petersen (1998) recalls that the basic assumption of the spokesmen for masculinity is that women, women’s values in general and feminist in particular, dominate men and the male identity. With men currently engaged in an identity crisis where they often depict themselves as victims of feminist struggles (Blais and Dupuis-Déri, 2012; Faludi, 1992). Often this crisis has led to warning that the feminist movement has...
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...Dr. Carlos F. Jacques Final paper Social inequalities between men and women in Morocco Fall 2012 The new Moroccan Constitution adopted on the 1st of July 2011 by the Kingdom is a historical event that recognizes the principle of equality between men and women, and commit to respect it. In its preamble, it condemns discrimination based on sex, it states that, "the Kingdom of Morocco is committed to fight and ban any discrimination against any person because of its gender." Despite the social progress made since fifty years (gradual increase in the participation of women in the labor market, steady rise in the level of girls' education), social inequality between men and women remain (especially in terms of employment, career, salary and pension). Beyond the already identified causes explaining these inequalities (academic orientation, gender discrimination in hiring, etc.), it is suggested that there is a possibility that this situation is due primarily to the persistence of established roles of men and women in society, which is especially evident within the family unit. Throughout this paper, I am going to define what exactly means a social inequality, then talk about the social inequalities between men and women in Morocco, and finally tell you about social change and movement for emancipation of women. First of all, I cannot talk about social inequalities between men and women, without explaining what it exactly means and defining it. ...
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...Communication in the Workplace: The Difference between Men and Women Jaime Vance Sullivan University 1Q-CMM401X-A2-07-Principles of Conflict Management-Winter 2014 February 8, 2014 Abstract Communication in the workplace has the potential to be difficult for everyone at times. It is not always easy to navigate communication successfully while working with varying individuals. Even in a workplace where women and men share equal standing, knowledge and experience, differing communication styles may prevent them from working together effectively. In the end, however, men and women can learn to communicate effectually, working together towards a common goal of success. Communication in the Workplace: The Difference between Men and Women It is not a new concept: Men and women perceive the world differently. They communicate in different ways, have varying perceptions of the same experience, and see the world through dissimilar eyes. Yet, these differences do not have to serve as barriers to effective communication. Rather, these differences can be an asset for successful workplace communication. Gender barriers, while evident, do not have to be barriers from successful communication in the workplace. In order to best navigate the road to cross-gender communication success, it is best to pinpoint these evident differences, using them to an advantage, making these differences common knowledge and tools for best practices. Gender barriers themselves can be “inherent...
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...beliefs which condone self-immolation, setting oneself on fire, most commonly in a form of protest. Often times the local religion would dictate the cultural mores and folkways of a society. And most commonly, religions tend to have very stern and discriminating view on social hierarchy. How and where women fall into that hierarchy and their relationships with the early Islamic caliphates they inhabited, are other examples of how dramatically and drastically religious beliefs can shape and mold a society’s perception and treatment of a particular segment of the population. When looking to define the relationship between an ever evolving population of women and the religious and political environment in which they reside, one must first evaluate the different aspects which shape their environment. Under whose rule did they live? What was their interpretation of the Koran? Where did the leadership hail from and what kind of social world view did they assume? All of these factors provided the basis and precedent for determining a woman’s place in society. In the fourth Sura of the Koran, AL-NISA, many laws and regulations are revealed to Mohammed regarding the treatment of women and what their rightful place is among the populace. This Sura is commonly thought of to have been revealed to Mohammed after he migrated to Medina, fleeing oppression of the Meccan...
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...For males, begin to have an erection while for females, they begin to have vaginal lubrication in the clitoris. When REM sleep causes arousal, it usually lasts a lot longer for men then it does for women. Although there is already a difference between the arousals that REM sleep causes for men and women, there is another differences between young adults and the elderly. Young adults usually experience it for more then half of their sleep cycle whereas the elderly only experience it for a quarter of their sleep cycle and if the elderly do experience an arousal, it tends to awaken them from their sleep. 1c. Researchers tend to examine awakened and relaxed people to observe their alpha waves, which with high amplitudes that are fast. When a person begins to fall asleep, the first set of waves that the researchers study are the, theta waves. These waves have an even higher amplitude then the alpha waves. However, their frequency is much slower. Sleep spindles and K complexes are when the EEG waves all of sudden...
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.... Based on the ordinal data, there are minor similarities and differences between racial/ethnic groups in terms of offense-ranking. Both white and African American women share similarities in their fear for rape, murder, being threatened with a knife, club, or gun. Although, both women share these small similarities the ranks for the other less violent crimes are also considerably different. The rank for having your car stolen is twelve for African American women and six for white women. Additionally, being beaten by a stranger was ranked twelve for white women but for African American women it was five. Both white and African American women ranked violent crimes on the same level, but for crimes that were considered less violent African American...
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...Differences 1 Reasoning for differences of life expectancy between men and women Latesha Mays Dr. Davis SOCI 402 May 9, 2006 Differences 2 Reasoning for differences of life expectancy between women and men In most countries the life expectancy at birth of women is longer than that if men. Historically it has been assumed that this was generally due to biological reasons. But on the basis of my graveyard data which consisted of 50 cases of people from High Point North Carolina, tables and graphs, the relationship between race, gender, and average age of death are summarized with four empirical generalizations that I got from the data. I will only present three to adequately summarize the data because only three have similar commonalities to express why women live longer than men. The first empirical generalization was on the basis of the gender table. The data showed that males have a 36 percent average age of death and females have a 64 percent average age of death and therefore males have 28 percentage points lower average age of death than females. The second empirical generalization was on the basis of the race and gender graph. In this graph females had a higher median age of death than any other category. The last empirical generalization expresses a graph that shows the data of race and sex. The data showed that white females have a significantly higher median age of death than men and black females...
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...hide emotions. Girls, conversely, learn verbal, empathy and supportive skills from playing make-believe games with dolls and dressing up. Operating under their role in a stereotypical society, men and women have intrinsically learned different ways of communicating based on perception. Presumably, men have a dominating and fearless way of pursuing life, while women undertake the part of gentle and perfect ladies. Personal communication is affected by outside observations placed upon the genders categorically triggering constrained...
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...Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” (Jefferson.) Is a notable line in the Declaration of Independence that most people know. The “American Dream” so to speak is backed by this statement. As one can read that statement by Jefferson, we as Americans tend to wonder if we have lived up to those words written in our founding documents of The Declaration of Independence and the rest of them. One can see that we have not lived up to our founding documents as we intended to do so, there are pieces of evidence to back this claim such as; the pay gap between men and women, and the limitations of freedom of speech. Also will touch on the opposing side and give examples of when our country was not divided in any sense....
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...Depiction of women and relationship between men and women in Plautus's plays with particular refernce to Pot of Gold I. Overview of Aulularia (Pot of Gold) and main characters: Pot of Glod a translation of original latin play "Aulularia" by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus (254-184 BCE). The title has been translated as The Pot of Gold, and the plot revolves around a literal pot of gold that the miserly protagonist, Euclio, guards zealously. The play’s ending does not survive, though there are indications of how the plot is resolved in later summaries and a few fragments of dialogue. Dramatis Personae referred to in the paper The Household God of Euclio, the Prologue. Euclio, an old gentleman of Athens. Staphyla, his old lady slave. Strobilus, slave of Lyconides. Lyconides, a young gentleman of Athens, Eunomia's son. Phaedria, Euclio's daughter. 2.Women depicted as subservient to men (as they were in reallife) in Roman Comedy 2. a. The puella is one dramatic stereotype of women in Plautine comedy. The puella is the object of the young lover’s affection and the slave’s efforts and whose marriage frequently provides the happy ending of the comedy. 2.a.(i) One sub-category of the puella is the "absent maiden" who is not seen on stage, offers an illuminating evidence about the status puella in comedy. Since she is totally under the domination of her father or guardian until she is handed over to her husband, she is seen in a positive...
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...In the book the sun also rises written by Ernest Hemingway, men and women have a major disconnect between one another throughout the book. Men and women during this era being that it is the time after world war 1 and most of the characters are considered to be apart of the lost Generation, whee men in women of talent who partaken in the war would move out of the states and into a more foreign land to start over and establish a new life for themselves, which made coping with the war a little easier. These men and women wanted to live their lives to the fullest and that kind of meant disconnecting themselves from one another feeling as if the opposite sex would somehow hold them back from living their life the way that they wished to live it. The characters in the book have a certain mindset so they tend to treat the ones that care about them the most, the most poorly....
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...Disparity between Men and Women after a Breakup It can be distressing when serious relationships come to an end, especially if one or both parties have put in so much love and devotion into the relationship. The people after this incident encountered complicated challenges of disentanglement with their previous mate, they had negative feelings about the overall situation, and bound themselves the need to let go and move forward in life, distracted from their pain. According to the article Surviving A Relationship Break-Up,” Surviving a relationship breakup can be one of the most difficult things people ever do and on an emotional level can be one of the most painful processes in our lives. Losing a boyfriend/girlfriend or a husband/wife can feel like your heart is literally being torn out.” When faced with interpersonal mayhem, individuals tend to do things as a mean for coping with the loss of the previous relationship. But how does anyone deals with these heartbreaking situations? How does the coping mechanism of women differ with the men? In the article Gender, Love Schemas, and Reactions to Romantic Break-Ups, Patricia Choo and her colleagues indicates that “Men and women relied on somewhat different coping strategies for dealing with break-up. Although men and women were equally critical of their own roles in break-ups, women are more likely to blame their partners than were men.” Men and women tend to deal with breakups differently. Sporadically, women have a tendency...
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