Sexist Language – How to Avoid Gender Inequality We all are aware of the idiom‚ “add insult to injury.” Simply‚ it means to make a bad situation even worse for someone by doing something else to upset them. Sometimes‚ we say hurtful things on purpose and a lot of the time we say hurtful things then immediately want to shove our fist into our mouth. However‚ what if your person dictionary contained words or phrases that were sexist and extremely offensive‚ but you had no idea? There is such a
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When it comes to gender and research‚ gender can affect sociological research in five ways. The five ways gender can affect are the following‚ Androcentricity‚ overgeneralzing gender blindness‚ double standards‚ and interference. Androcentricity means‚ "focus on the male" ( Macionis‚ 2011 P.21). With this type of research‚ the researchers tend to act as if the activities that men’s perform are the only important ones‚ ignoring what women do. They focus and acknowledge the paid labor men do‚ but under
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The Effect of Gender on an IQ – Spatial Intelligence Introduction Intelligence is the capability to take in new information and adapt to situations. It is derived from both genetics and environment. Genetics are the part that genes play in a person’s life. It is also questioned that different levels of different types of intelligence are based on whether a person is male or female. Howard Gardner suggested that there are multiple types of intelligence‚ those of which are: linguistic‚ logical-mathematical
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How Language treats gender In Nights at the circus Gender is socially constructed and this theory is backed up in Nights at the Circus as gender role stereotypes are reinforced here. The main character Fevvers is objectified and portrayed as this creature with wings and magical powers‚ who is also described as large and having a ‘face‚ broad and oval as a meat dish’‚ which would typically be more suited and to a degree even complimentary to that of masculine traits. This both reinforces and challenges
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How did revolutions affect gender roles? The impact of women in revolutions has had a great effect on many world societies. During the French revolution women took many roles including marching protest and writing against the monarchy. Most of them became very vocal during the revolution whiles others had a posthumous recognition about how women expressed their experiences in private life and family affairs during the decades of the revolution. The involvement of women in the revolution may be considered
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Gender Typing Gender typing has many effects on a child and its attitudes towards gender later in life. If children are taught something while being brought up and observing‚ chances are they’re going to take that with them for the rest of their life and be biased towards things and how they perceive others. It could also have a negative impact on what children believe what’s acceptable; things to play with such as different toys and colors for different sexes. “According to social learning
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Gender effects on my career: It seems that many jobs in the computing industry suffers the same gender distributions as the science‚ technology‚ engineering‚ and mathematics fields. It has been shown that the environment of a child growing up can influence their decisions in the future‚ which includes their occupation. It can be argued that as a male‚ the experiences with my family‚ friends‚ and community has lead me to pursue computing as an occupation today‚ and as a female could have resulted
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(Aristophanes). This is a direct correlation of how a woman was thought of in Ancient Greece. In its simplest terms‚ the Lysistrata is a tale that centers around an Athenian woman named Lysistrata and her comrades who have taken control of the Acropolis in Athens. They are protesting against the endless wars that men are fighting and refuse their husbands sex unless they cease their battles. This revolutionary due to the views of women at the time and how little dominance women had. The woman faced a
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In literature‚ the way language is selected and crafted inevitably influences our emotional journey. Shakespeare is regarded as having mastery in his language from the sonnets to the plays‚ particularly in Hamlet. This play tells the story of Hamlet‚ the prince of Denmark‚ seeking the truth about his father’s death‚ then plotting revenge on his father’s murderer‚ Claudius‚ his uncle and now King. Shakespeare’s language in Hamlet powerfully explores the idea that reality is not as simple as we perceive
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Ph.D. Candidate‚ University of New South Wales‚ Australia kudzaimatereke@yahoo.co.uk & Jacob Mapara Lecturer‚ Great Zimbabwe University; Ph.D. Candidate‚ University of South Africa jacomapara@yahoo.co.uk Abstract This paper seeks to examine how the Shona traditional society conceptualised beauty; drawing from the meaning and content of the Shona proverb‚ suggesting that traditional society emphasised beauty as holistic to include such elements as moral uprightness and humility as the markers
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