The female athlete triad is a health condition in which active women experience three inter-related disorders due to unhealthy body weight and eating habits. In the case of the triad‚ the word active refers to females who display moderate to high intensity levels of performance. The rate of performance must be high in order to counterbalance the decrease in calorie intake. Females who perform at a high intensity are at risk for the triad since they do not take in enough calories to fulfill the
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to be considered beautiful or “perfect”. The topic of the “ideal” female body is really important to me because not only does it affect me and could potentially affect me as a model‚ it affects all women‚ and has been affecting women for thousands of years. Opinions on what the female body should look like have existed since men and women were first created thousands of years ago. People’s opinions on the “perfect” female body have evolved and changed more in the last few hundred years than
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Historically females were seen as non-criminals as their pathways into criminality was seen to be invisible. Daly and Chesney refer this as the gender ratio problem where gender differences results in female committing less crime than male. Heidensohn states that female offenders tend to serve sentences for nonviolent offenses such as property crimes‚ drug-related crimes and fraud. It was only prostitution in which female were dominated. However‚ the female prison population has increased. The female prison
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friends vs. Female Friends 11/25/11 Eng Com I Males vs. Females Most people have friends. Depending on your gender you may have more female friends or you may have more male friends. I myself have an equal amount of male friends and female friends. Having both gender of friends‚ is fun. Male’s offers advice that females can’t and females offer advice that males can’t. Males and females are alike and different. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast male and female friends .I’m
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Their athleticism shows how much these female athletes put in. Whether it’s in a gym‚ field‚ or track‚ girls know how to strive towards hard work. People see these girls dress in sweats‚ sweatshirts‚ running shoes‚ yogas‚ and caps on a daily basis. This is why female athletes get categorized everyday by peers. Just because they are apart of the “jock” clique‚ people automatically assume certain things towards these athletes. Female athletes often get taken as “tomboys” simply because
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Female athletes are known to be many manly titles. Many might already have an image in how muscular women athletes can be. People picture a hard core girl with crazy calfs and abs. Female athletes are supposedly these type of women who only care about being fit. According to society female athletes are hard as stone inside and out. Female athletes are easily misunderstood as tomboys because most of them love to compete with male athletes. There is no doubt that female athletes love to beat and win
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Female employment in Japanese labor market GEM (Gender Empowerment Measure) of Japan ranks the 58th among 108 countries and GGI (Gender Gap Index) of it ranks the 105th among 136 countries. It means that in Japan the gap between men and women is big and the economic and political opportunities for women are not enough‚ although human developments are achieved. The number of female employed persons in Japan‚ which accounted for 35.9 per cent of all employed persons in 1985‚ has gradually grown
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awareness‚ create an information portal as accessible as possible for everybody. Female circumcision seems to be declining slightly in some areas of Sudan. A culturally accepted policy and political commitment to eradicate the practice are needed. Education and economic empowerment of women would help lower support for the practice. A mass media campaign publicizing the risks of female circumcision and the fact that female circumcision is not obligatory for Islamic women would also be helpful. In
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CASE OF FEMALE GENITAL `MUTILATION: THE TENSION BETWEEN CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND UNIVERSALISM Dianne Camille T. Corales University of the Philippines Mindanao Department of Social Sciences‚ BA Anthropology December 2014` 2 INTRODUCTION Over the past years‚ the practice of Female Genital Mutilation has received an increasing global attention and mass condemnation from the West in general along with the Feminists and Human Rights Advocates. According to the statistics of UNICEF in 2013‚ Female Genital
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Female Genital Mutilation: A Case of Cultural Relativism (Or Not?) Abstract Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a cultural practice that involves the cutting of external female genitalia. Issues that need to be considered regarding FGM are its health consequences‚ the fact that it violates basic human rights and democratic principles (of paternalism)‚ and that the reasons why it is performed are completely unjustified. Supporters of the practice argue how it is a cultural right‚ and hence universal
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