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What Is A Coffee Walk In Kansa

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Participants
The participants included 42 students at the University of Kansas that agreed to individually completing the survey that was sent to them via social media sources such as GroupMe, Snapchat, and over text. 29 (69.05%) of the participants were female, 12 (28.57%) were male, and 1 chose to not specify. The participants ranged in age from 17-25 years old. When asked about geographical climate, 17 (41.46%) were from a rural/small town, 21 (51.22%) were from the suburbs, and 3 (7.32%) were from the metropolitan area. 2 (4.88%) of the participants associated themselves with the upper class, 12 (29.27%) were upper middle, 20 (48.78%) said middle class, 6 (14.63%) said lower middle class, and 1 (2.44%) person identified as …show more content…

Procedure
Before the study began, a survey had to be created. The activities and tasks that were chosen in the survey were typical of that each gender would engage in. The feminine tasks all included things such as household chores and child nurturing, while the masculine tasks dealt with things outside that would require hard labor and getting rough and dirty. Once the survey was sent out through GroupMe and other social media sources, the participants had the choice of whether or not they wanted to complete the survey or not. There was no consent form sent out with the survey, but all participants were debriefed with the purpose of the survey. None of the participants were pressured to answer in a certain way, they were just asked to give their honest opinion about how likely they would be to engage each activity. The survey took up to 5 minutes to complete, and once it was over, each participant was thanked for their time.
Results
The survey was sent out to determine if college students of either gender would only choose to participate in activities that correspond with their gender stereotype, or if they would attempt to venture out. The results indicated that 92% of the participants chose to stick with the activities that matched with their gender stereotypes. There was no manipulation of the survey between each subject, so the results overwhelming indicated that we fall to our gender roles, even when given the option to try new

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