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    Questions for Rhetorical Analysis 1. What historical occasion gives rise to the need for investigation and the creation of this text? Gender Bias is being taught and occurs unintentionally in our schools. Teachers challenge boys more than girls. Sexism is so elusive, it is being taught every day and educators are not even aware they are doing it. 2. Does the author come across as knowledgeable? fair? Does the speaker's reputation convey a certain authority? Author(s) have many case studies,

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    2. Null Hypothesis - Gender bias does not have a role to play in people’s mind-set towards male victims. • When asked if DV affects a significant number, small number of men or doesn’t affect men, 53.2% male respondents and 58.6% female respondents think that it affects a small number of men. Only 23.8% male respondents and 31.3% female respondents think a significant number of men are affected and a further 10.9% male respondents and 10.1% female respondents think it doesn’t affect men. Since the

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    Sport media is no different from any other profession. There is gender bias in this field. Due to sexism, it makes it hard for women to even enter into the career path they desire most. There are many factors when it comes to gender bias, especially in sport media. Women are at a disadvantage in the field of sport media. Before 1978, female reporters were not allowed to interview players in the locker room before and after games (Clapp). It was not until 1978, when a female reporter decided enough

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    “Nineteen percent of the 7,800 students surveyed in middle and high schools across the country said they were prevented from wearing clothing deemed "inappropriate" based on their gender…”-- CNN Student protests growing over gender-equal dress codes I think that dress code at school is gender bias because it’s female specific, your socioeconomic status will help determine if you get dress coded or not, boys don’t usually get dress coded like girls do, and girls have a harder time dressing age appropriate

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    This study focuses on the relationship between gender bias, gender ideology, and gender roles in everyday life. The study analyzes how differences in gender affect professors’ behavior in the classroom. My research question is how do men and women view professors’ treatment of students based on gender? Some basic guiding questions are: In your opinion and experience, do professors treat certain groups of students differently? Who are these students? Specifically, do professors treat men vs. women

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    Justification For my assignment I chose the topic of Gender Bias in televised sports, I chose this topic because I'm interested in sport and I believe that many people aren't aware of how gender biased sport is. The target audience of this topic is people both girls and boys who are teenagers. These ages were my choice because they would be the most likely ones to be reading Magazine Articles online. This topic would most likely be in a sport magazine or in a women of men's Mixed topic magazine to

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    Gender Pay Bias

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    The Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed gender discrimination (Macionis, 2012). That is, employers cannot discriminate when setting pay for men and women (Macionis, 2012). Although these laws exist in the United States, median wages for women amounts to seventy-nine percent of median wages for men (Hirschfeld Davis, 2016). As a result, President Barack Obama signed an executive law that will close gender pay gap with mandatory reporting and penalize companies that engage

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    Gender bias is unequal treatment in employment opportunity, such as promotion, pay, benefits, or privileges due to attitudes based on sex of an employee or group of employees. Gender bias can be a legitimate basis for a lawsuit under anti-discrimination statutes. Workplace gender bias not only attempts, but succeeds in several ways that people don't recognize for woman in male professions. Men automatically have an advantage over women when it comes to getting a certain job because several people

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    Gender bias is a concept that is seen every day, where society has taken upon itself to place male and females in certain stereotypical categories. For instance, gender bias in the workforce is one of the most common areas where women and men are treated differently. Women are "supposed to" work in fields such as nursing, office work, and so on; while men work in the fields of construction, engineering, athletics, etc.. In addition, there is a clear difference in the pay amount and promotions that

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    and still to this day, gender bias and discrimination remains a huge issue in our world. Harper Lee chooses to address gender bias in her powerful and provoking novel called To Kill a Mockingbird. Gender bias occurs far too often, and Lee clearly holds a true understanding of the powerful impact it makes on our society as a whole. All through the novel, any reader could easy see the negative impact that gender bias can do to a community, society and even nation. Gender bias most efficiently is portrayed

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