Category: Gender

In her book Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity Julie Bettie delves into the aspect of girls in high school. Specifically focusing on groups of Hispanic and Caucasian girls in a high school in California. She emphasizes harsh social and discursive hierarchies between different peer groups in the high school. She shows how race…

Introduction Cultural stereotypes may seem humorous but they can harm people. While many people understand and accept this as true, a “case study” approach, in the form of personal testimony, is often more valuable than a truckload of research. The definition of a stereotype is any commonly known public belief about a certain social group…

Stereotypes, pervasive in our society, encompass cultural, gender, and sexual dimensions, perpetuating preconceived notions about various social groups. These generalizations, often confused with prejudices, shape our perceptions and interactions. Cultural stereotypes extend to specific ethnicities such as Jewish, Black, Irish, and Polish people. Similarly, gender stereotypes oversimplify the complexities of human behavior, fostering beliefs that…

Glass ceiling is a term that describes the artificial plateau, beyond which women and other minorities are denied the opportunity to advance to upper levels of executive management in corporate America. It has become a routine practice to deny thousands of qualified women the top level jobs, merited by their performance. Glass ceiling is an…

This essay analyzes gender equality in education among Indian kids. This essay also examines social background, access to learning resources, time learning activities, and cultural attitudes area unit related to gender difference in academic outcomes. It’s hypothesized that gender difference might result from historical attitudes concerning the education of women similarly as sure oldsters selecting…

In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, James Thurber introduces to us the life of the estranged middle-aged chronic daydreamer, Walter Mitty. The overbearing wife, Mrs. Mitty, is portrayed mainly through her daily dialogues with Mitty, whose disdainful image is deepened by the gender attributes of the females existing in Mitty’s fantasy. This essay argues…

Nike’s ‘Equality’ campaign speaks up against discrimination: gender, color and race. Globally known under its popular slogans: “Opportunity should not discriminate”; “the ball should bounce the same for everyone”; “equality should have no boundaries”, the firm has been built upon a strong belief and ideal that individuals are defined by their endeavor and accomplishment, and…

From birth until death societal structure provides individuals with acceptable and unacceptable behaviours in society based on whether they are male or female (Dietert & Dentice, 2009). As per 2011 Indian census it was reported that total population of transgender is around 4.88 lakh (Transgender in India, 2011). Despite this, there is little research in…

It was only over the past three to four decades that the role of women within the academic world began to be recognized. Their role and participation in our country started to be recognized about three to four decades ago but up until then, there were professions as well as matters that were considered off-limit…

According to Trumbach the role of the prostitute, between 1650 and 1850, was to provide an escape from the intimacy of marriage, to guarantee that men would never be transformed into women and that the male was not a sodomite. 1 This role would seem to echo changing definitions of masculinity that increasingly promoted heterosexual,…