Female criminality attributes the disparities to the “masked behaviour” of female incidental to their roles (Pollak‚ 1950). Females have committed all types of crimes such as shoplifting‚ robbery and murder. However it is very rare that you would find a female committing murder as they are weaker than men and thus it is mostly the minor crimes they commit so they can get away with it. There are certain characteristics that were found in women who were in prison. These characteristics are age‚ marital
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this paper is female workers are lower paid than male workers in Malaysia with the same education level. With the changes in demographic‚ social and economic forces‚ it has resulted in a large increase in the number of females in paid employment in manufacturing‚ agricultural and services sectors. Despite females’ earning have improved over the years‚ males still earn more than females. Male workers are still observed to be in an advantaged position which is earning more than their female counterparts
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Examine some of the reasons why females may be less likely than males to commit crimes. Women in general seem to have a lower rate of offending than men. Some sociologists take the view that it is social factors rather than biological factors that cause the gender differences in offending. Sociologists have put forward three main explanations of gender differences in crime‚ which are the sex role theory‚ the control theory and the liberation thesis. The sex role theory and the control theory
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Female foeticide 1) Introduction of what the topic is : define female foeticide Female foetuses are selectively aborted after pre-natal sex determination‚ thus avoiding the birth of girls. As a result of selective abortion 35 to 40 million girls are missing in Indian population. The effect has been more pronounced in the states of Punjab‚ Haryana and Delhi. It was in these states that private foetal sex determination clinics were first established and the practice of selective abortion becomes
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Before 1800 the right to vote was extremely limited to only specific people. In the original thirteen states‚ New England and the Southern states‚ voting was only extended to property owning white males or white male taxpayers. This limited group amounted to less than half of the white male population‚ and none of the free or slave black population or women of any race. This expansion of this right was only stretched out a bit from the original group. Many factors lead to this expansion; however
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Female infanticide..... Female foeticide is the illegal practice of killing a foetus which is determined as a female. Female foeticide is prevalent in our country as a major social evil. The patriarchal social structure of India gives a secondary position to women. Social belief goes that the family runs through a male and hence the birth of a male child in the family is imminent to the carrying forward of its generation. Social discrimination and the preference for sons have given
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of the female body have been manipulated and changed to make women feel inferior to men. The essays “The Female Body” by Margaret Atwood and “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Male-Female Roles” by Emily Martin‚ both portray the female body and the use of the female body in a way that is inferior to that of a man’s body. These essays also both use a persuasive approach to persuade the reader to acknowledge the problem and take action to change it. The use of the
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humanity”. Female Foeticide is thus‚ the act of aborting a foetus because it is female. This is a major social problem not only in India but the entire world. Foetal sex determination and sex selective abortion by medical professionals has today grown into a Rs. 1‚000 crore industry. Social discrimination against women and a preference for sons have promoted. According to the decennial Indian census‚ the sex ratio in the 0-6 age group in India went from 104.0 males per 100 females in 1981‚ to 105
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by the father or an adult male. In Greek‚ it means ’’rule of a father’’‚ stating that female live under father’s power because male are more muscular and powerful so they could determine what women should do or shouldn’t do through force‚ pressure‚ education or tradition to maintain their power. And women don’t have rights to make any decisions‚ they have to obey the values and demands appointed by male or the father. Nowadays‚ ’’patriarchy’’ means the power held by male in different aspects of the
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Annotated Reference Rothberg‚ L. (2008). The pros and cons of circumcision. Rn‚ 50(7)‚ 30-32 Circumcision is our nation’s most practiced procedure‚ however the procedure itself is becoming more and more controversial as time goes by. Most decisions on whether to perform a circumcision or not is not related to medical facts‚ but cultural opinions instead. Some religions believe in circumcision while some do not. There are some down sides medically from a person not being circumcised such as urinary
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