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    Gender and Leadership

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    Gender and leadership Leadership is the act of directing‚ motivating and managing a group of people towards a shared goal. Tasks often requiring leadership are generally complex and large. Leadership is used in these instances to avoid chaos and maintain a clear direction of work along with the management of time. Going back to nature into the most limbic slice of the brain‚ males are generally seen more direct and more involved in their approach to leadership. Little less than a century ago‚ this

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    Mistreatment of Australian Aboriginals Cases of oppression are very much present within our world’s history‚ and even in most societies today. Being rich in history‚ Australia is a large example of oppression in our world. Not only can we find koala bears and kangaroos in the continent of Australia‚ but also the world’s oldest existing culture of aboriginal people (Aboriginal Australia - EmbraceAustralia.com). For nearly 50‚000 years‚ Australia has served as home to these ancient indigenous people

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    of norms and standards which imply that you are supposed to behave‚ dress‚ and do things based on your gender. However‚ Queer theorist‚ Judith Butler‚ does not agree with society. Instead‚ Butler believes that gender roles are not biologically constructed. Butler’s 1990 novel Gender Trouble‚ examines the extent to which gender and sexuality are performative. Butler’s concept of performative gender is depicted in Michael Chabon’s novel Summerland. The fantasy novel revolves around the protagonist‚ Ethan

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    and do things they have never been allowed to do before. The qualities that have been instilled in women for ages‚ such as loyalty and respect‚ should continue to be exercised‚ but the ways in which they are used should be changed to help create a gender-equal

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    Do certain theories have strengths or limitations with respect to gender and personality? Gender and Personality Theories Strengths and Limitations - Freud ’s theory of gender and personality has strengths in that he was one of the first to investigate the relationship. - Limitations were that he was stuck in the stage were children were in a stage where they were fixated with genital development and this was the difference in healthy mental development - Jacques Lacan also believed in the

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    compounding oppressions after exposure for an extended period create damaging psychological effects (Mullaly‚ 2007). Many of the economic‚ political‚ and social barriers the Brown’s encounter are due to ableism and an oppressive society (Carniol‚ 2010). This has led to normal but destructive and ineffective coping mechanisms‚ such as guilt expiration rituals and social withdrawal. I had several reactions to this book‚ ranging from sympathy to anger‚ at the several types of oppression they experience

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    Gender Roles

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    Gender: Expectations‚ Roles and Behaviors In this chapter‚ we generally talk about the gender and sex. Gender is determined by your physical body. It decided by your gene. Sex can be adjusted as who you think you are. You can identify yourself as man or woman as you feel it is more comfortable. Before 20th century‚ the sex problems are barely heard from the public until George Jorgensen‚ who is the first transgender person and reported in the world-wide media. She opened the topic to the public

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    gender performativity

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    The Representation of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex by Marte Rognstad A Thesis Presented to The Department of Literature‚ Area Studies and European Languages University of Oslo In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the MA Degree Spring Term 2012 Marte Rognstad The Representation of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex Marte Rognstad http://www.duo.uio.no Trykk: Reprosentralen‚ Universitetet i Oslo

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    Gender Diferences

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    Women? • Social Role: cultural guidelines for how a person should behave • Gender Roles: behaviors considered appropriate for males and females • Gender Identity: perception of oneself as male or female • In the US‚ males are seen as instrumental‚ women as expressive • Not shared worldwide: US views on gender are extreme Cultural Differences in Gender Stereotypes 14.1: How Do We View Men and Women? 14.1 Learning Gender Stereotypes • By age 5‚ US children judge 1/3 of traits as stereotypically

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    Gender Indentity

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    What is Gender Identity? The human body is amazing. And even though there are many researchers that conduct studies on human anatomy‚ there are so many questions that are unanswered still to this day. But what we do know has helped many people and continues to benefit certain theories that have been made over many centuries. One part of the human body that has lots of answered and unanswered questions is gender identity. There are many factors when it comes to gender identity. Some people

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