Womens and Gender Studeies

Children are given rights through the Convention of the Rights of the Child. In these rights, are rights that only children have. There are over 42 rights assigned to children alone. Among these rights are topics such as survival and development, drug use, free expression, the child’s best interest, and violence. This essay discusses two books, which examine these rights and the ways they are influenced.

The current legislative framework protecting the equal rights of all children and young people are stated in the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). These rights are extensive, including the right to education and the right for children and young people to have their views respected.

“Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.” (Helen Keller). The biggest problem when it comes to women’s rights is that people refuse to hear that there is a problem. This situation is very familiar in today’s world. People refuse to understand that even though women do have more rights than they did in the past, there are still issues that need to be addressed. Women’s suffrage is one of the most respected and memorable historical events. This movement has been forgotten because it has been so long ago, men and women both are losing respect for women’s rights. Some men disrespect women’s bodies and refuse to acknowledge that they should have rights. People are forgetting that historic prodigies fought day

Barbara Perry’s article “Doing Gender and Doing Gender Inappropriately” addresses violence and gender, and how gender is influenced through the way it is perceived in society. The construction of gender comes in polar extremes, with masculine dominant men and feminine subordinate women. Gendered violence is used to control women as a class. It is a systematic tool used by men to reinforce gender norms and patriarchal ideas of masculine superiority and feminine inferiority. It “terrorizes the collective by victimizing the individual”. Like any dichotomy, it has scripts, and to deviate from these scripts will leave you labeled as ‘unnatural’ and ‘immoral’. These scripts “constrain everything from modes of dress and social roles to ways of expressing emotion and sexual desire”. In Judith Lorber’s “A World Without Gender” we are introduced to the possibility of eliminating gender and how “degendering [would] undercut the patriarchal and oppressive structure of Western Societies”.

In “Punished for Being Female” by Bob Herbert, a series of problems are being brought to light about how women are being mistreated just on the condition that they female. Herbert states that females being mistreated are a huge problem and it can be seen in multiple parts of the world. This undeserved punishment comes in forms of beatings, torture, rape, and even death. Herbert then goes on to present many of these examples from across the world such as the cases in India where the wives are murdered and set on fire. It is just as bad in countries like Ethiopia where men would abduct and rape young girls in order to claim them as a bride. Herbert mentions these wrongdoings because he states how they are happening due to the fact that they are women, which creates an enormous problem. It is an ever-growing problem as well. This can be seen in the U.N. report where they state how infanticide and prenatal sex selection have caused half a million girls to go missing every year. Intimate partners are noted to be one of the most common forms where abuse and violence is seen. This punishment females receive because of their gender is unacceptable in every means. Herbert concludes his article with a cry out for recognition that this brutalization against females must be dealt with.

Gendercide is a term referring to the elimination of one sex through selective abortion, infanticide, neglecting and abuse. Most of the time the preference is for male. The United Nation specialists estimate that as many as two hundred million girls are missing in the world today. To give a broad figure, they explain that people practicing gendercide in China and India eliminates more girls that than the number of girls born in America each year. All in all, they describe the phenomenon as the biggest single holocaust in human history.

I have a very vivid memory of discussing my classes to my mother before this first semester began, and whenever I listed off my Women and Gender Studies class I remember my mother asking me, “What do you think you are going to learn about in there?” I recall opening my mouth to say something, but nothing came out. I stopped, and looked at her and said, “You know, I’m not really sure. I guess we will find out!” I knew going in to this class I was excited, but for what I had no clue. However, looking back on my experiences, discussions, and the knowledge I have gained from this course, I know exactly why I was excited. There is an entire world out there that the media and politics had hidden from me, but now my eyes are opened. I can

Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice by Sally Eagle Merry observes and scrutinizes the burden between global law and local injustices. She argues that human rights law must be embedded in a local society in order to be recognized as influential social constructs. She then specifically speaks of gender violence and how this injustice is ingrained through cultural and religious traditions, and transformations are usually resisted within a culture through belligerent acts. Sally Merry is currently a professor of Anthropology at New York University and has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Wenner Gren Foundation for anthropological research. Merry’s research examines human rights ideas as relevant to recent social activity around the globe. Because her specialty is human rights and specifically gender violence she is equipped enough to provide the evidence given in this detailed analysis and presents numerous amounts of resources and evidence as well.

The focus of this paper is the spreading issue of what is referred to as honor killing, although it is the opinion of many people around the world that there is no honor in these killings. Honor killings are typically homicides of women and girls in conservative cultures. These women have been judged to bring dishonor and/or shame by their culturally relativistic

Centuries after another and now the present, the twenty-first century still faces a huge issue towards the acceptance of gender equality. Nonetheless, women are unappreciated in today’s society’s workforce. But for Sheryl Sandberg, who wrote the article “Lean In”, believes that any women in the world could be whoever they want to be. Sandberg inspires many girls of today’s generation for being a successful woman who followed her dreams and not let inequalities and gender roles affect her. Through Sandberg’s hard work, she became the COO of Facebook and eventually became a billionaire. Her success story was shared on her essay where she stated encouraging aspects of how women should be. Such as, leaning into their careers instead of stepping back to focus on family. In addition, Sandberg concludes that women shouldn’t be afraid of pursuing their ambition because of the negative views that they may receive or even the fear of failing. In other hand, the author of “Beyond Lean In”, Bell Hooks argues that leaning in is maybe not for everyone. Hooks criticizes Sandberg about her views of how women should be because Hooks thinks that Sandberg did not consider the women with different backgrounds. Furthermore, Hooks did not ignore the fact that some women struggles to succeed in the workforce due to their race and social class. Hooks points out a very legitimate fact, because she actually looks at different types of women while Sandberg might not be able to relate to that because

Aside from race, gender is another sociocultural factor that has influences on children within school. When examining gender and schooling, discourse plays a significant role in how gender impacts a child’s educational experience. Boys in schools are often perceived as being mischievous, troublemakers and naughty due to their genetic makeup. They are expected to disobey the rules and defy the teachers. On the contrary, girls in school are expected to conform to the rules, and are often overlooked. Gender performativity is reinforced by the institutional habitus of schools, and when students do not conform to the ideal view of the male or female genders, they are placed at a disadvantage. Ferguson (2002) asserts that two representations of black masculinity in society and school today “are the images of the African American male as a criminal and as an endangered species” (p. 585). Both sociocultural factors that are entailed in this description of the African American male, race and gender, have significance in how teachers and administration interact with and treat this specific identity of a child. In this case, the male gender identity serves as a source of expectation that the student will disobey the rules of the school and defy the teacher. This is a common association with those of the male gender. On the other hand, because sociocultural factors often intertwine, the racial aspect of this identity asserts that the student is either a danger to others, like a

In this portion the disciplines are analyzed and respondents are divided on the basis of their discipline or department. The different discipline where the study was conducted was BBA, Fine arts, English, chemistry, economics, IT, psychology, Bio Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. The disciplines were ranged in strata form on the basis of gender, from which BBA held the highest number of respondents.

With the pressures of successfully completing required classes, college students try to find professors that align with their strengths. With resources available, such as teacher evaluations and ratemyprofessor.com, it is possible to get a sense of what a professor will be like before registering to take the class. Students can learn how a professor structures their classes, whether other students believed the professor was a hard grader, or simply a hard teacher overall. Some students evaluate the professors on their personalities and if they were engaging enough with the students. While some students will also include recommendations to take the class with a certain professor, some students warn to stay away from the professor. With many variables influencing how a student may evaluate a professor, I wonder what effects can be seen of professor gender and student gender on their class evaluations and willingness to take that professors class.

This part will be devoted to reviewing previous researches concerned with the study of gender in education, mainly, the studies that tackle the issues of gender in the classroom in general, i.e. those studies that investigate gender in classroom interaction in different subjects; in addition to other studies that explore the role of gender in the language classroom, and how the focus of the research on gender in the classroom interaction has evolved through time.

Humans massacred fellow humans. In an effort to prevent a crime on such a scale ever again a group known as the United Nations created a document, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. The rights set forth in this document attempt to protect all human beings. This declaration has provided a basis for what is ethical treatment of humans. All humans use these rights to determine if a person or group of persons is being mistreated. Among the first, and most basic, rights is the right to life, in which all people are given the right to live and not have the opportunity seized from them (“Universal Declaration of Human Rights” 11). Despite this being a normality in our culture, in India females are being killed solely based on their gender.