Female Comrades
Lyn Mikel Brown writes a book called Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls about relational aggression in females. She writes about how it manifests, what causes it, and how the media encourages it. A manifestation can be seen in the trope of good girl vs. bad girl, or girly girl vs. tomboy, or any variation thereof (Brown 213). It is in movies and tv, it is in our everyday lives. Brown shows how it is practically forced upon young girls to pick a side in a divide and conquer type strategy. When girls grow up, that trope does not leave their lives. It is there, and it follows them. Good girl and Bad girl stereotypes are reinforced in shows like “The Real Housewives of [Insert Any town]”. This media perpetuates girlfighting
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The reasoning behind this is that girls perform better in single gender classrooms because it removes the air of worried competitiveness from the schools (Sax 245-246). In the U.S.A. the school system tried to promote gender equality by introducing a gender blind system. But, Dr Leonard Sax author of Why Gender Matters points out that this has “[lead] paradoxically to a strengthening of gender stereotypes, with the result that fewer girls take courses in physics, computer sciences, trigonometry and calculus” (99). In coed schools today girls shy away from typically boyish subjects because they feel out of place or are discouraged and boys shy away from typically girlish subjects from fear of being mocked (243). As I pointed out, girls are constantly stressed with trying to meet our cultural standards for them. When they perceive that a standard is not met, their self esteem crumbles which leads to depression (Lopez et al). In a study done in Belfast, Ireland between two schools close in all factors, except one was coed and the other single gender (Sax 245). In the coed school it was found that the attending girls’ confidence relied solely on their perceived beauty of themselves, no matter their academic performance, family standing or encouraging friends (246). However, at the single gender school, the girls’ confidence relied on multiple facets, appearance was just one. (246). Girls and boys at coed schools are concerned mainly with things other than their grades, they are worried about appearances, popularity and who is better at what (247). So, in single gender classrooms it is less likely for girls to have low self esteem and depression. This means relational aggression will decrease as well, since a large part of the enacting of relational aggression is negative internalized beliefs about one's self
I observed the basketball championship game in McCarthy center and, while sporting events are mostly seen as a male-dominated activity, I saw more girls in the audience than boys. I, myself, got up at six in the morning to wait in line to get a spot to watch the game. This breaks the stereotype that girls are uninterested in sports. However, after the devastating loss, most people went back to their gendered stereotypes. I, along with the girls around me, were crying at the heartbreaking finale, while some boys in CM took to breaking things in the halls. This alines with the gender stereotypes that women are more emotional and men are more violent. While I do believe that we, as a society, are moving away from suffocating gendered stereotypes, there are some that we still preform subconsciously. The younger generations are moving forward with making gender non-conformity the new normal, however, we are far from ending the fight to break gendered
Girls have to stand up against the rules decided for them by the male in our society.
There are multiple reasons why Kelley King, Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens are on the pro side. For one reason, they believe that the differences exist due to boys being more interactive with certain topics and methods that don’t usually interest girls or vice versa. For example, the Wamsley Elementary School in Rifle, Colorado has both boy and girl students. However, in the past, the girl students over accomplished the boy students due to the school staff being more experienced in understanding how to teach girls than understanding how to teach boys. So, the school focused on teaching the boys with their own learning styles that are also girl friendly such as online courses. The result of this was successful as boys became more accomplished than they were from before. (Pages 147 – 148).
In the context of this article, how do gender stereotypes influence the way we perceive aggression? Can women truly be as aggressive as men? How are they portrayed in literature and in the media? What does history tell
To make sure discrepancies and changes in medication orders, I shadowed Ron to assess and educate the patient. I thought Ron displayed a very educational assessment by asking patient open-ended questions and gradually move to yes-no questions to help determine specific medication information. Ron’s avoided using medical jargon unless it is clear that the patient understands and is comfortable with the language used. He also prompt the patients to try to remember all applicable medication (patches, creams, inhalers, eye drops, injections, dietary supplements) and when patient could not remember what they were on he calls the primary care giver of the patient. Ron clarify unclear information in the patient’s chart, record the information
In everyday life, people are given roles to play; doctors are to heal the wounded, officers are to maintain order in society and teachers are to guide the youth onto the right path. In the past, each gender had to behave a certain way, the men were the strong worker of the home, whom provided the income for the family, while as the women were the gentle angels at home, whom took care of the children and housework. If the women were to defy these roles, they would be look down upon and be treated worse. However, time has change, these roles are no longer black and white; there is no longer a certain way a woman is supposed to act, modern women are depicted differently from the way they were in the past, this is due to the new norms in society that has been molded throughout time. This can be proven with the old fairy tale “Cinderella” by Charles Perrault and the 1990s movie Pretty Woman directed by Garry Marshall.
Battle of the Sexes is a title for numerous tv shows, board games, films, and even a radio talk show. The idea of competition between males and females is very prominent in todays society, and also in the past. Competition of genders has existed since the creation of humankind, and can also be found in other mammals. It can be found in numerous places such as a corporate business setting, in a school building, in the wild, in a families home, and everywhere across the world. Gender competition doesn't just exist in reality television shows and the media. It is a part of everyday living. So why does Gender competition exist? Theories throughout psychology can help students understand the
When it comes to the classroom, there are several differences between girls and boys. There are physical differences in the way their brains work, differences in the room temperature that is best for boys and girls, and differences in how girls and boys respond to various tones of speech (Sax, 2006). While girls prefer soft-spoken teachers, Sax (2006) notes that boys prefer to be spoken to “loudly and in short, direct sentences with clear instructions” (p. 195). According to Sax (2006), “the ideal ambient temperature for boys is about 69 degrees and about 75 degrees for girls” (p. 193-194). Further differences involve how boys and girls learn. McNeil states that “boys may learn better under pressure and when allowed to move around...while girls may perform better in group situations and with a lot of encouragement” (McNeil, 2008). Because of these many differences, it would stand to reason that boys and girls would benefit from being in separate classrooms. According to Hughes (2007), “the teacher would be able to concentrate on the learning-styles of each sex and use the styles to bring out the academic best in each students. Lessons and activities could be designed with a single-sex in mind” (p. 11). As Principal John Fox states, “the single-sex environment enables you to actually focus on the particular needs of each gender, and those needs socially and
Although separating male and female student might help concentration, students should not be separated based on gender because, separation would cost a lot of money, a new building, new staff, new bus drivers, new everything. Utilities would be the main cost increase. Bullying is much more common in boy-only or girl-only schools. Social interaction is also very important in schools, although it can be distracting in class, social interactions between male and female students are very important.
"You're such a girl!" is something we hear quite often. But we don't exactly analyze its importance. Every man or women act and behave differently, and that is because of gender roles, "instructions for how to behave and appear as a woman or man (Wade and Ferree 2015; 61). We all "do gender", the ways in which we actively obey and break the gender rules of our society." (Wade and Ferree 2015; 61). We don't always obey these rules and regulation, we're all humans, and we all make mistakes, but it's other peoples reaction what's most interesting about breaking them. Once we break these rules, there is something known as gender policing, "responses to the violations of gender rules aimed at promoting conformity. (Wade and Ferree 2015; 71).
By forcing girls to conform with society through the toys they play with and how they stereotype girls may be a reason why so many begin to rebel. Some want to change the way their body looks and others wear so much make-up that it looks like a clown was their cosmetologist. When mothers and grandmothers past along the belief that a woman should be devoted to serving the males in their lives by waiting on them hand and foot, it only adds to what they already deal with as a young women growing up in today’s society.
Not only are the students more focused in the classrooms with single-sex classrooms, but they also feel more comfortable with each other and aren't very concerned with the way they look. They don't need to be worrying about impressing anyone because everyone there is of the same gender so it would be a waste of their time if they tried to impress one another. It is common for them to be able to go
To start off, Everyone likes and needs to socialize, Social skills are very important in life. Social skills are good for many jobs or just in general in life. When you have single-gender schools you do not get the social skills with other genders. You only know
Boys and girls learn in two different ways. This reason is why having a single sex school is more rewarding than a co-ed school. According to Dr. Schlosser of Breckinridge County Middle School's (Kentucky) the difference between the way boys and girls learn are the type of weather boys and girls prefer.) Boys prefer to learn in a cool, dark room. When there are two different people wanting two different things its hard to please both sides. Boys also learn much slower than what girls learn, this could be a problem for girls in the same class as boys for girls would learn and to move on, but would have to cut back their learning to wait for the boys to learn the same material. Boys also are interested in different subjects than what girls like. Boys are most secretly interested in music, science, and math. According to GreatSchools.com says boys feel girls won’t like them when they know they are interested in other things such as music and math and not baseball, football, and soccer. Many boys won’t show interest in music in a co-ed school. When boys are placed in a single sex school they won’t have the feeling of impressing girls so more boys will show their interest in arts and music. Boys are much better with math and science than what girls are says NASSPE VIII. NASSPE Vlll is single-sex school out of Huston Texas. "The most profound difference between girls and boys is in any brain structure per se, but also in the sequence of
In single sex schools boys and girls excel in subjects they usually would not. Single sex schools help children do well in subjects they usually would not be good at or subjects they would not usually try. For example girls do better at maths and science in all-girl schools; boys do better in languages and the arts in all boy schools. My first example to backup my point is a study by Cambridge University in 2006 where their research showed “boys improved in english and foreign languages in single sex classes, and girls improved in maths and physics. This proves girls and boys do better in subjects they usually would not do because they are more comfortable in a single sex school rather than a co-educational school. A second piece of evidence to help argue my point is a United States study that found boys at single sex