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The Quandary: A Class Analysis

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Our world is constantly changing to where some old gender values are shifted for a new. Examples of those values might be women’s rights, rights for homosexuals and others that are part of the LGBTQ+ community, and other minorities in the world today. In four separate projects, our class analysed data collected by the entire class about 4 different aspects of gender roles and different races in our society. One fact that caught my attention came from the project asking on single question. The results of the question showed that people in our society today are possible more accepting of a homosexual being a doctor than a women. (Postel & Group, The Quandary) I plan to analyze the results of the question as well as other facts from the other …show more content…

That question was, “A father and son are in a horrible car crash that kills the dad. The son is rushed to the hospital; just as he’s about to go under the knife, the surgeon says, “I can’t operate- that boy is my son!” How is this possible?” The results of this showed that 10 percent of the class believed the boy was adopted and that one of the real parents or adopted parents were the doctor. Another 10 percent believed that it was a stepfather who was the doctor. Only 20 percent of people said that the doctor was the Mother. This is against the 40 percent of people believing that the boy’s parents were in a gay relationship. The other 20 percent said some other answer. (Postel & Group, The Quandary) This was a surprise to me. I believed that women were going to at least be 40 - 50 percent of the results. I did not think that homosexuality was going to out weight women by double. It surprised me, because it is not like people do not see female doctors everywhere. Even on television or in movies. There is a plentiful amount of female doctors. The same group also put a chart on their handout that displayed the results of asking different generations if same-sex sexual relations are always wrong. As time went on, the older generations typically believed that it was wrong. However as time went on and new generations were born, people started to believe otherwise. (Postel & Group, The Quandary) Some more information that shocked me were the statistics about workers in the medical

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