Differences Between Female And Female Actions And Behaviors

Over the course of history, men and women have be faced with a communication barrier. The differing communication skills between men and women present challenges that can lead to foreseeable problems in relationships. These problems arise out of differing purposes, styles, traits, and emotions that accompany communication between the two sexes. Unless an understanding is reached, these barriers may never be broken down.

Both Deborah Blum’s The Gender Blur: Where Does Biology End and Society Take Over? and Aaron Devor’s “Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes” challenges the concept of how gender behavior is socially constructed. Blum resides on the idea that gender behavior is developed mainly through adolescence and societal expectations of a gender. Based on reference from personal experiences to back her argument up, Blum explains that each individual develops their expected traits as they grow up, while she also claims that genes and testosterones also play a role into establishing the differentiation of gender behavior. Whereas, Devor focuses mainly on the idea that gender behavior is portrayed mainly among two different categories: masculinity and

This moral, pointed out to us in the last paragraph of Renaissance writing, says nothing about the matters of interaction between men and women, only the interaction between brothers.  The women in the plot are deemphasized.  In As You Like It, Shakespeare breaks all convention and a female character delivers the epilog and speaks directly to the women calling them to action.  The playwright goes so far as to have Rosalind address the women audience members first.  Shakespeare clearly alters his plot to place primary emphasis on the women's roles in his play, how they effect change and how they move and affect a world dominated by men.

There are various differences between genders; physiologically, psychologically, etc. Leaper (1991) conducted a study that examined age, gender, and partner differences. The experiment consisted of 138 participants, median age of 5 and 7 years old. Leaper recorded and quantified speech acts into four categories; collaborative (affiliate involvement and direct influence), controlling (distancing involvement and direct influence), obliging (affiliate involvement and non-direct influence), and withdrawing (distancing involvement and non-direct influence). He found that communication patterns between both genders were similar at the early childhood versus middle childhood. Leaper 's findings showed that gender differences progressed through time and communication patterns changed as the child grew. Developmental and contextual accounts of gender and social behavior cause these gender differences.

In As You like It, the traditions of society push characters to play certain roles. Rosalind, the protagonist, has no control over society and gender expectations presented to her. Even though she is the most interesting, intelligent and active character in the novel, she is confined into the expected female role. This suppresses her personality to be expected to fit into and belong at

Characters within Pride and Prejudice show characteristics that are stereotypically associated with their gender, showing the acquiesce for the restraint of characteristics based on

Ideas proposed during the Renaissance Period regarding gender differences were quite skewed from the certainties we hold today. In fact, misconceptions about male and female genitalia propagated by anatomists led to the generally accepted belief that women were merely less perfect versions of men. The supposed effects of women’s sexual imperfections included weakness, illogicality, deceitfulness, emotional inconstancy, etc. In As You Like It (written between 1598 and 1600), William Shakespeare exaggerates such gender stereotypes through his character Rosalind in order to produce comedic effect.

Throughout history, man and women have distinct set of attitudes, behaviors, and self-presentation. Men are thought to be emotionally strong, courageous, self-reliance and rational while women are thought to be submissive, weak, nurturing and sensitive. In Shakespeare’s As You Like It, these roles can be easily identified. During the Renaissance period these assigned roles were the norm for society, for example, because of theater conventions of Elizabethan England, the part of Rosalind dress as a boy would have been played by a boy actor.

Shakespeare's As You Like It is both a gentle, pastoral comedy and a complicated, dark debate on the relationship between love, power and gender construction. At the centre of the play is Rosalind, arguably one of Shakespeare's most engaging, witty, intelligent, and lovable female characters. Rosalind is the epitome of Elizabethan femininity: beautiful, chaste, and charitable; and yet she is able to transcend traditional gender boundaries to become a powerful masculine figure, allowing Shakespeare to call into question the serious nature of gender and identity, while also adding to the comic relief of the play through the use of dramatic irony.

Shakespeare believes that women are more prone to crying and that they are the weaker gender. When Rosalind is talking to Aliena, she says “I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman, but I must comfort the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat”. (2.4.4-8) In the past, it was believed that because of the fact that women give birth, they are the fairer sex. Most people believed that women could not protect themselves, and that they needed courageous men to protect them. Shakespeare also portrays women in a stereotypical manner, in the sense that it was believed that women normally rave over males, making them seem foolish. In Scene 3 Act 2, Rosalind is giddy over Orlando, perpetuating the stereotype that woman go crazy over guys. (3.2.198-208) Tie to the topic sentence. Another stereotype that Shakespeare brings up is the stereotype that women don’t think before they speak, and that they talk all the time. Rosalind says in Act 3 Scene 2 “Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak”. This was a common view, resulting in woman always being told that they were nagging.

“Gender roles are the way people act, what they do and say, to express being a girl or a boy, a woman or a man. These characteristics are shaped by society,” (Gender Roles) These roles constitute the standards of the society and they are transmitted from one generation to another by education. Children learn these standards since their birth. Parents teach them how to act, to say and to behave according to their sex. Also, children learn the gender roles from other sources like school, neighborhood and television. Actually, television is playing a significant role in the education of people. From different programs presented on television, children acquire many knowledge about how to live, to speak and to behave according to the roles attribute to men and women. In the USA, “Baby Daddy” television show is one of the program which teaches people about the gender roles. “Baby Daddy” show spreads the gender roles by three different ways, first by the way the personal characters of men and women are described, secondly, by the attitude of men and women toward the Domestic behaviors, finally, by the way professional occupation of men and women are presented.

When you enter the superstore, you can actually smell the disjunction. On the right is the tempting-sweet, candied-flower perfumes and to the left is the dark ice, musky tree bark colognes. As you venture further, the right side is all ruffles and more shades of pink than you knew existed and the left side is full of blue and blue and some khaki cargo shorts. In the back, the right side presents dreamhouses and a chemistry set that results in makeup. The left showcases trucks driven by a mass of muscles and a build-your-own plane that can really fly! The right side of this superstore clearly caters to females, while the left appeals to males; but you already knew that, even without an explicit

This research paper will set out to understand how personality traits change in early and middle adulthood by examining the Big Five personality trait dimensions (Goldberg, 1992; John & Srivastava, 1999; McCrae & Costa, 1999). It will be particularly interesting examining whether change on all of the Big Five dimensions stops or slows in middle adulthood, as predicted by the five-factor theory, or whether change is ongoing and differentiated, as predicted by contextualist theories. Subtle observable differences exist between male and female brains, but how exactly these relate to differences in behavior is unknown but will be explored in this paper.

Another point to make on this matter would be that the character of Rosalind would have been played by a male and the audience would know this. This could mean that the reason Shakespeare included Rosalind’s enjoyment of manly sports was because Rosalind is actually a man in the attire of a woman. There is a large confusion of the gender of Rosalind throughout the play. By confusing the gender, Shakespeare is focusing more on the personality of Rosalind than her appearance. The question of gender is continued at the very end of the play. In many of his plays, Shakespeare ends with an epilogue read by a male character. In As You Like it, the epilogue is performed by Rosalind. The epilogue seems to be outside the play as if the actor was talking but Rosalind is still in character. She says herself;

A woman is a grown girl who is able to make decisions on her own. While a girl need someone else to make decisions for her. When a girl is upset she cry, yell, and do all those thing she did when she could get what she wants from her parents. Now a women still feel upset, but she respond instead of reacting. In other words a woman is able to communicate what is bothering her even though she is upset while the girl don’t. Furthermore, if the woman suffer from anger issues or if she is bipolar than the situation is different.