For my empirical essay I decided to observe the interaction between Hooters girls and male customers in order to examine how gender is socially constructed and how this place itself lead to gender inequality at a Hooters restaurant located in Santa Monica. For this purpose, I will describe the servers and their male customers based on their ethnicity, class, and race, in order to demonstrate how theses features connect with gender and how they shape the way people interact in a social situation…

horror, young girls, specifically high school or college girls, are used as the main character. Whether it’s a group of teenage girls or one singled out, they always tend to be the center of attention. Why is this specific gender and age chosen to take the main role in slasher films? Girls of the ages between sixteen and twenty-two featured in these types of films usually occur to fall under some of the same categories. They are all characterized as stereotypical teenage/young adult girls being viewed…

The article “Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes” by Sigmund Freud focus on the difference between boys and girls and the consequences and impact the Oedipus complex and Penis envy. Freud studies the consequences and how boy and girls develop and move forward from this phase. It is to say that Freud has a strong point of view about this, and somehow this theory can come as masochism and has been criticizes by many feminist; but I cannot ignore the complexity…

puberty. Psychologically, an adolescent is affected too. One psychological effect of puberty is a decreased self-esteem. Boys and girls both have affected self-esteem during puberty, but girls’ self-esteem seems to have a negative impact during puberty, whiles boys seem to have a more positive impact. This paper will focus on the impact of self-esteem in both boys and girls during puberty, and if there is a positive or negative impact. Self-Esteem To understand what effect self-esteem has on adolescents…

major categories which are boys and girls. This separation between boys and girls does carry on throughout a person’s life, and influences many gender roles and biases. In the girls’ clothing section, there many different items of clothing such as sweaters, vests, dresses, leggings, jeans, sparkly plaid, and tunics. The patterns on these different clothing items consists of sparkles, hearts, flowers, lace, fake fur, and animals. Most of the clothing for girls consists of bright colors like, pinks…

How do boys and girls experience school? Somewhat differently it seems, because their learning styles tend to differ somewhat. Although individual differences always trump gender-related differences, here are some differences between the ways boys and girls in K12 grades classrooms behave that have implications for teaching and learning. Girls are more likely to Boys are more likely to 1. be good listeners -a trait that serves them well in today 's language-rich classrooms. 1. do well when…

The plays ‘Top Girls’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ are written in ways that explore the issues surrounding gender equality and gender differences. Churchill explores the ideas of a feminist utopia where the men and women live in separate spheres which are prescribed to suit the stereotypical roles of the genders. For example at this time power dressing was a real strategy used by the new breed of feminists struggling for identity in society. We learn about the relationship between women and working…

is reported that Syria has over 258,200 slaves. Most of these slaves are children who are forced to take part in armed conflict. Syrian boys are forced in fighting while Syrian girls are being sold as child brides and forced into marriages .Children are being forced in adult situations every day, Manal a 16-year-old girl stated, “My father said I have to marry. I felt he was no longer able to support me” . Under international law children have the right to go to school and receive an education…

Differences between a girl and a woman. 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…

In this essay I discuss that "doing gender means creating differences between girls and boys and women and men...." (West & Zimmerman 2002:13) I am concentrating on the female perspective, how societyputs forth expectations of what is 'natural' or biological even though, in some cases, it can be quite demeaning and degrading. I am using some examples from the local media and also a few childhoodexperiences that have helped me to now strongly suspect that the quote from Simone Beauvoir (1972) "One…