Northouse Gender Differences

Sexist values against women in leadership roles impact the confidence and empowerment of female initiative and authority. Embodying leadership is key to political participation – without which one could not take initiative in seeking to foster positive social change. Tony Abbott’s response to a question of women’s opportunities: ‘What if men are by physiology or temperament, more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command?’ (Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) 2012) accounts for the typical gendered attitudes towards female

Although English colonies were different according to their regions, colonists emulated English society by having similar religious beliefs and social structure. In English colonies, Christianity was sacred and worshiped. The Church of England, with authority of the Pope until Protestant Reformation, was recognized as the “official” colonial religion in Virginia, Maryland, New York, Carolinas, and Georgia (Brinkley, 2007). Colonies in various regions used the Church of England to worship the same beliefs of Christianity and Protestantism that established a emulation to English society. Likewise, gender roles were comparable. Gender roles, including childbearing women, were traditionally practiced by many colonists and their families. Since

1.T.Hall was singled out because he had both qualities of male and female. Because of this fact, he played the roles of female and male. This made people upset, because there was clear guidelines and social rules that must be in place for both genders. The idea that a female can role-play as a male and gain the same rights of males scared many people.

From the movie the difference in the experience wasn’t completely different from one another, due to roles and gender. Meaning, that in many slave related tales, the women are more likely to have the task of looking after children, helping with the agriculture, being the house cleaners, etc. While the men are tasked with the heavy-duty work like building, delivering, fetching, etc. I think one good example for both genders, in 12 years a slave is that when a female slave named Patsey is appealed by her master, Mr. Fassbender. What makes this bad is that his fancying is not hidden at all and is easily noticed by everyone present, including his wife.

"When, husbands take on household responsibility, they typically choose tasks that do not threaten their masculine self-images ( Weingarten ,1978; Yogev, 1981)" (Biernet & Wortman, 1991). Women have to be a jack-of-all trades, they have to go to work, clean house, drive the children to school, get them ready for bed, and get up to do it all over

For one of the three cultures that I examined the first I chosen was in Australia. Before reading the article I thought they would have the same gender understanding as the people in the United States. The term ideology where there is a set of ideas widely shared by members of a society, which I believed, would be the same between the two countries in the understanding of gender. Australia’s understanding of gender is that they identify their ingenious transgendered people as “sistergirls” and “brotherboys”. They are very similar to the trans-community in the United States where they are also discriminated against and bullied in their communities. They have experienced the same isolation as transgendered people in the United States.

Education is the ‘highest art’ in Herland and has been the reason why the country has flourished. When the three male explorers are imprisoned by the Herlanders, their hair grows long, which Gilman does to symbolically link them to women kind. Throughout the novel, Gilman reverses the gender roles: the women have short hair, the men have long hair; the women teach while the men learn; the women are physically stronger than the men.

Sex and gender play a big part in american society today and are often misconstrued. These two topics have become progressive as people are starting to express their gender and sexuality in ways other than what is and has been considered the norm. Many people believe that sexuality and gender are synonymous with one another. Gender is socially constructed while sex is biologically determined. In society’s past, Americans often strayed away from discussing controversial topics, but with the rise of different ways of addressing people, it is deemed more important to understand. Along with the blurred lines of gender and sex comes sexuality, who someone is attracted to sexually. When people stray from society’s heteronormative mindset, they are often faced with many more challenges than the average hetero man or woman. People often have the preconceived notion that if something does not concern them, then they should not be involved in it. A person who could be your neighbor, co worker, or even child, may have to deal with the troubles of people confusing their gender identity with their sex. While also facing challenges that deal with the sex of the person they choose to love. Learning the difference between gender and sexuality will open the eyes of many people and see how the two are different but relate to one another very much.

As we have begun to discuss culture, we have come to the realization that culture can take many forms. People who have different ethnicities or grew up in different countries will most likely have different cultures along with different values. Although we inherently want to say that out own culture is the “right” culture, we have to realize that not everyone has been rraised the same or shared the same experiences as us. In Lareau’s reading, the cultural upbringing of different children of different races illustrates how culture and values will vary from person to person. The children are brought up in a middle-class or working class/ poor class, but

Thesis statement: Leadership depends on the leader’s leadership style and there way of communicating ideas rather than the leader themselves. Both women and men believe in similar leadership styles however women prefer a more participative leadership approach.

“Magic mirrored on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?” (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs). This statement has become one of the most famous classic villain's lines of the Disney movie industry. Being the first Disney animated film and introduction to the first princess, Disney portrays what women like during the 1930s. The film portrayed feminism as traditional gender role idealized.

One major reason why women are not reaching leadership positions is because of the relationship inequalities that they have at home. Sandberg states, “In a 2007 study of well-educated professional women who has left the paid workforce, 60 percent cited their husband as a critical factor in their decision” (110). This is a perfect example of how much of an impact men really have on women. Whatever a man does at home, whether he notices is it or not, has a huge impact on a women at work. Sandberg goes on to explain that, “These women specifically listed their husbands’ lack of participation in child care and other domestic tasks and the expectation that wives should be the ones to cut back on employment as reasons for quitting” (110). This is

Culture and biology is very important while comparing males and females. Everyone is different but we all came from the same place and all evolved together. Males and females both have different unique characteristics that will benefit them in the long run. There are also a lot of similarities that connect males and females together. Although there is a lot of hate and aggression in the world, but that’s the way we will stay alive. We need to defend our own gender and human nature. As the world continues to change and society’s expectations change, more similarities and differences between males and females

Gender diversity increases awareness and understanding of the wide range of gender variation in children adolescents and adults. The video shows diversity on kid’s gender identity. This video explains how biological sex does not always match gender identity. The three different kids in the video showed gender identity issues since they were in their early childhood.

The inter-individual variability with gender and its connection to humor is probably one of the most discriminating topics to talk about. Since forever, men and women are like opposites. Even though men and women tend to get along with each other, it can clearly be see that there is a difference in the perception, production, and utilization of humor (Lambert & Ervin- Tripp, 1998). Most often our social structures are the areas that define the line between what men perceive to be funny as compared to women. As commonly assumed, there are basics such as our biological make-up and or genetic factors, but what defines the difference between sex and humor? (Aillaud & Piolat, 2012). The topics being explored in this paper will revolve around individual differences of gender, as well as, touching on sexist humor and rape and the effect it has on women.