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The Bias Ideas Of Discrimination In The Workplace
The meaning of discrimination is the bias opinions towards something that people may not be
familiar with. I was surrounded by the ideas of discrimination since I was little, though I have
never noticed. I was born in China, where people can barely find foreigners, at least lot less than
the american; also when the time I was born gender equality was common, therefore most of the
discriminations was based on region, wealth and degrees of education. I remembered always
hearing the adults say that people are rude from such places, or people are all thieves from such
area. Those "theories" start to become a common knowledge, no one will doubt it if people mention
them. Of course I did not know that those are discrimination, but just because I heard so many of
them, those ideas turn into a subconscious of mine. In my memory, I have never been
discriminated when I was a kid, probably was made fun by people because the disadvantage of
my height, but I didn't really pay attention to it. When I look back into my childhood, the reason
discrimination did not brother me was not because I lived in a fair society, was because I was
born in a upper family within a big city. Most of the neighbours, classmates and friends of my
parents that I encounter with were all having a similar background. Everything was looking ordinary
for me at that time, however, that peace start to fall apart after I know I will come to the states.
When I was a kid, throughout the media or parents, I had somehow
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Essay on Gender Bias in the Classroom
Gender Bias in the Classroom RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND THEORIES OF
LEARNING Gender inequity is not only learned and accepted in the socialization process that starts
at home, but is also present in the school environment form the very early years. Parents and
teachers consciously or unconsciously reinforce sex stereotypes. In 1992 Olivares and Rosenthal's
research findings examined three areas:
1–interactions in the classroom that are both teacher–to–student and student–to–student
2–instruction features involving relation between classroom activities and the gender of the students
assigned to perform the activities
3–the perceptions...show more content...
They were also treated more tolerantly than girls during out bursts of temper.
The Sadkers asked the question, would females benefit from attending all–girl schools? Here the
girls would be surrounded by high achieving female displays and role models. Single–sex schools
take pride in strong women role models such as coaches, math and science teachers and most
importantly as heads of schools. In coed schools, men monopolize status positions in athletics and
positions of power. In 1995 men held two out of three elementary principalship positions, 90% of
high school principal positions, and an even higher percentage of superintendencies.
Is a single–sex school a place to promote female self–esteem and self–concept which declines among
girls as they enter adolescence? The Sadkers caution against the creation of single–sex educational
opportunities. They cited that history has shown that when students are separated by race or gender,
the lower valued group ends up with fewer resources and a weaker education. How can we meet the
needs of all students and promote positive self images for all? Sadkers stress the need to strengthen
the coed education model. Several projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation to
develop and generate new thought processes in teaching children and reeducating teachers. The
Teacher Education Equity Project
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Gender Bias in Everyday Life Essay
In the modern United States, biases are found in almost every social institution. These
discriminatory practices hurt everyone involved. One of the more evident of these is discrimination
based on someone's gender. Gender bias, also known as sexism, refers to a full range of attitudes,
preferences, laws, taboos and behaviors that differentiate and discriminates against the members of
either sex. These may be the position of male dominance and female subjugation in modern society.
It may also be in the form of sexual stereotypes between men and women, which are commonly
experienced or encountered in employment, especially on the positions they occupy and their
earnings or income. A final instance wherediscrimination is faced is within the...show more content...
It is not true; however, that all males have been winners in these historical struggles. While boys and
men benefit to some extent from patriarchal relations, they are also damaged by the disciplining
practices needed to reproduce misogynist relations. And men and women have different uses, such as
a male lifting heavy weights and females singing at the upper register. (Goldberg, 10) Most men and
women in every society realize this intuitively. Anthropologists have written at lengths about the
areas in which women are unquestionably superior to men. It is through these abilities that the
world's women have always fulfilled themselves, just as men have emphasized their singular
abilities. (Crane–Seeber and Crane pg 218) While women are more commonly affected by eating
disorders, more than a million of the opposite sex battles the illness every day
(nationaleatingdisorders.org). Men are told to be muscular and strong, so as to support themselves
and their families. Men are also told that feelings should not be shared, and to give in, is to become
"womanly". While gender discrimination is illegal in most educational institutions, it still occurs.
Discrimination can occur in subtle ways that are not easily identified. Some of the more noticeable
ones, however, include differences in admission requirements, differences in educational programs
and activities offered, and sexual harassment.
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Implicit Gender Bias Essay
Implicit Gender Bias and Women in STEM Fields
Most people consider themselves as rational, reasoning individuals who make decisions after
considering the facts at hand. Research suggests that this is often not the case, with implicit bias at
work shaping one's responses. Researchers at Cornell University have defined implicit bias as
"unconscious, unintentional bias" (Royer, Hido & Slotnick, 2017). Predictors of implicit bias
include socio–economic status, gender, ethnicity, childhood experience, and cultural experience
(Cooley, Payne & Phillips, 2013). Unlike explicit bias which reflects attitudes or beliefs that one
endorses on a conscious level, implicit bias refers to attitudes or stereotypes that affect our
understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner resulting from subtle cognitive
processes that often operate at a level below conscious awareness and without intentional control
(Gyan, n.d.). Of these, implicit gender bias affects the health and social wellbeing of women, as well
as disadvantages women economically and in the workplace. As such implicit gender bias is
endemic within the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, and this
bias can disadvantage women pursing these careers (Moss–Racusin, Dovidio, Brescoll, Graham &
Handelsman, 2012). The importance of further study of mitigating interventions of this implicit
gender bias is clear. Our hypothesis is that implicit gender bias related to women in STEM fields will
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Gender Bias And Its Effects On Children
Courtney Cox Arquette, actress on the hit 1990's sitcom Friends, used In Vitro Fertilization or
I.V.F., in late 2003 to conceive her daughter after struggling with infertility. Many couples all over
the world are struggling with infertility or genetic diseases, and like Arquette, are turning to I.V.F.
for help. Recently with the help of new genetic engineering, scientists have found a way for
parents to choose the gender of their unborn child using I.V.F. Couples around the world are
either delighted or disgusted by this rather controversial topic. Preselection of gender could cause
a gender bias, designs children to desired specifications, and poses a higher risk to the child and
the mother. Parents should not be able to select the gender of their unborn children without a
logical medical reason. The process of gender preselection poses a high risk to society,
particularly by leading to a gender bias. In a 2011 survey, 60% of surveyed couples with a gender
preference prefered a boy to a girl (6). If parents are able to preselect their unborn child's sex, the
population of boys compared to girls will increase, leading to a gender imbalance. This is harmful
to society because over time, men will have a harder time finding a partner. In some western
countries, this has already made a large impact. China for example, is expected to have "more than
30 million men to women expected by 2020," explains reporter Fauziah Ibrahim of 101 East News
(2). In China, the gender imbalance
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Essay on Gender Bias and Domestic Violence
Women have always taken a back seat to men in American society. There has always seemed to be
one set of standards that apply to men, and another set of standards that apply to women. This is
evident in the home, workplace, and all throughout society. I would like to briefly discuss some of
the differences that we learn about our gender, which will enable us to better understand men,
women, and domestic violence in society today. Once we understand causation, we can then begin
to understand effects and prevention. Our roles as men and women start at the hospital when we
are born. Boys get blue blankets while girls get pink blankets. The toys we play with growing up
are targeted at either males or females. Toys that are made...show more content...
So what makes an abuser? The goal of the abuser is power and control over their partner. Domestic
violence can affect all, but more often it is the male inflicting the harm due to their physical
advantage and also their societal taught dominating role. The abuser tends to conform to the
stereotypical view of the man and women. The man goes out to make the money and support the
family, while women stays home to cook, clean, and look after the kids. In knowing this, it is easy
to understand why leaving an abusive relationship can be so difficult for the individual being
abused, as leaving involves many needed changes and few solutions to the problems.
Domestic violence is a very important social problem that we must educate ourselves on because it
has such a profound and negative effect on the individual(s) being abused. They are affected
mentally, emotionally, physically, and I know from experience that the scars can run very deep.
Being in an abusive relationship for three years was devastating to my self–image as a teenager, and
because of these feelings of inadequacy, my decreasing esteem allowed me to stay in such a
dangerous scenario. Healing from the negative effects of that relationship has been a difficult
journey for me, and I can only imagine how much more difficult it must be for women abused for
years on end. To this day, I struggle greatly with the ability to let go of my own "control"
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Gender Bias In The Women's Rights Movement
In this society, men have more privileges than women in the workplace. It is true the world we live
in today has many opportunities for women. Women can vote, have their own property, have jobs
like men, etc. However, there is not much equality between men and women working. Women are
often worse paid than men with few rights, which is one of many examples of gender bias. Gender
bias is the unequal treatment between men and women in the employment area, based on their
gender expectations. It turns out gender bias exists especially in the workplace. According to
TechRepublic, unequal pay, diminished responsibilities, and positional bias are emphasized for
women working.1 These examples of gender bias go back all the way to before when women's rights
were fought for. Women then had a basic education, they were generally married off by their parents,
they had to take care of their children and the house, which their husbands owned, and they were not
acknowledged of their hard work. That all began to change when the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's
Rights Convention triggered the beginning of the Women's Rights Movement in the United States.
Individualists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony have been devoted to the fight for
women's rights.2 Changing the unjust and unequal society was their purpose. Through petitions,
meetings, and public speaking, they were able to achieve their purpose. Margaret Mead, an
anthropologist said, "Never doubt that a small group of
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Gender, Gender And Gender Bias
Language and gender has become an increasingly popular topic of study over recent decades, most
likely due to the second wave of feminism in the 1960s and 70s. This can also be seen in the fact
that goals of linguistic studies shifted at this point, to not just look at grammatical differences
between males and females but to examine sexism and gender bias in language. The wording of such
studies becomes increasingly important in the modern era, as gender is now recognised as a
socially constructed concept of masculine and feminine features, based on biological sex but not
limited to that. Simone de Beauvoir (1952) believed that we gradually become more masculine or
feminine but we are not inherently gendered.
Language and gender was not developed as a serious subfield until the 1975 publication of Robin
Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place. Lakoff argued that women use particular language features
in order to deny themselves means of strong expression, which are stereotypically reserved for
males. These features include shows of uncertainty, such as hedging and indirect requests. Indirect
requests include making a statement in hope that it will elicit the desired response from someone
else without openly asking. 'Women's speech seems... to contain more instances of 'well', 'y'know'...
words that convey the sense that the speaker is uncertain about what [she] is saying' (Lakoff,
1975:53). Dale Spender (1980) talks about gender power relations, but disagrees with Lakoff as she
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The Importance Of Gender Bias In Our Culture
While reading our communication book and taking notes during lectures, I came across a concept
that I thought was particularly interesting. The concept I am going to talk about is language and
gender and more specifically, gender bias in our culture. I think that this topic is quite interesting and
especially relevant in the current times we live in. With women demanding more rights and
recognition than ever before, I think that this topic is appropriate to talk about.
English is a language that has always had issues with gender equality both in written and spoken
form. For example, in old English, many would use the words he or his to refer to anyone
regardless of their gender. According to Engleberg and Wynn (2015), "Older English textbooks
used sentences such as: every speaker should pay attention to his words". As can be seen in this
quote, the word his is substituted to mean anyone who would be reading the book. It can be
argued that at the time however, boys were mostly the ones to gain educations. However, this
would change as time went on and more girls could go to school, but the use of he or his as a
substitution for any person did not change. English is not the only language that is guilty of this.
Other languages such as French and Japanese have separate third person plurals and first and
second person words. Sweden is a country where this does not exist at all. Instead they have a word,
hen, that is used as a gender–neutral pronoun over he or she.
Another
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Gender Bias And Its Effect On Education
Leedy, LaLonde, and Runk (2003) found that their data supported and built on the findings of other
researchers concerning gender stereotypes. They found that girls who were motivated and had
mathematical talent were still subject to the effects of gender bias and that they had decreased
confidence in their mathematical abilities. The research also indicated a continuing belief that math
is a male domain. Females did not acknowledge the stereotype and felt the survey was biased and
insulting and left comments saying so. No such comments were left by males. The belief by men
that math is a male domain, coupled with the failure of women to acknowledge the biases existence
sets up an unrealistic relationship. The researchers postulated that rather than denying biases exist,
we must acknowledge them so that we can move on and reform education. They felt that the reforms
need to occur outside, as well as inside, the classroom, and must include parents, especially mothers.
The attitudes of all parties involved must be changed for reform to be effective.
Riegle–Crumb and Moore (2013) found that females were underrepresented in the engineering
course they studied. Although female students made up 50% of the enrollment at the high schools,
they only comprised an average of 14% of course enrollees. Women in the classes shared similar
academic backgrounds with their male classmates, but the women were more likely to have a parent
who worked in engineering or a scientific field.
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The Importance Of Gender Bias
One of the most debated topics in modern society today is equality. Most everyone agrees that all
people are equal, however, most everyone is also implicitly biased about genders whenever it comes
to careers. For example, imagine for a moment a random piano teacher. What gender did you
automatically think of them as? You more than likely initially imaged a female piano teacher. Now,
imagine a random surgeon/ doctor. What gender did you automatically see them as? You probably
imaged them as a male. If so, you are experiencing implicit gender bias. Unfortunately, you are not
alone in this; society itself implicitly assigns males to scientific careers and women to liberal
arts. Implicit bias are the completely unconscious stereotypes and attitudes we have towards
society that affects our decisions and understanding of things. The key word in that definition is
unconscious. Most people do not even realize they hold this bias; you might not have even
realized you were experiencing this bias until reading this paragraph. This ignorance is one of the
main reasons this bias is still occurring on a daily basis to most of humanity, and it is the main
reason there is such a gender divide in careers today. It is hypothesized that helping people identify
their implicit bias (specifically gender career bias) and providing them with basic education and
strategies on the topic itself will reduce their gender career bias. The rather recent development of
social media has been helpful to
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The Null Hypothesis : Gender Bias
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 p value show no statistical relationship, there is no difference between how men and
women think and there is a clear indication that most people think that domestic violence for men is
not a distressful issue for its not a considerable number of...show more content...
Although men and women show different views, the Cramer's V of 0.154 shows only a weak
association. A bigger sample size could've produced different or more reliable results.
Gender bias is the distortion of views and preferences based on the sex of a person. Biases are
preformed based on what kind of surroundings a person grows up in and their personal
experiences. This bias exists in everyone's mind and subconsciously make people act and react in
different ways based on stereotypes rather than reality (Rhonda. E, Dugan, 2008). Everyone has
different views on male masculinity. Even in this day and age where there are equal rights for
both sexes there is a patriarchal view about men in society, where they are classed as the stronger
sex which has led to the belief that male to female aggression is more serious than female to male
aggrrssion (Drijber et al, 2013). Sexual assaults and DV are disproportionately considered as
women centric problems. Surveys conducted reports victims in rape cases are 90% women, one in
four women are a victim of intimate partner violence and 44% lesbian women and 61% bisexual
women have been subjected to physical abuse by a partner or sexual abuse. (Bureau of Justice
Satistics and the centres of Disease control and prevention (CDC). These facts combined with
preformed notions
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Gender Equality And Gender Bias
Gender equality and gender bias has been vigorously discussed and argued for decades, and it still
remains as the issue that cannot be ignored in our society. The NSW department of Education and
Training provides the Boys' and Girls' Education Strategy to assist all government schools in NSW
to undertake a strategic approach to address gender as an educational issues(NSW DEC). Still, girls
are now facing difficulties that arose from not only their abilities but also the influence from their
families and the communities. In this essay, problems or difficulties that young girls or female
students faced because of other participants in the education or schooling system will be discussed.
Strategies and recommendations in regard to those issues will be talked afterwards.
Even we say we are living in a gender equal society, but it is rare to see women at the dominant
place in each industry. Hundred years before, women were not allowed to study, and men were
taking the power to control the society. Nowadays, women are able to have higher education as men
do, but some of them still experience blocks in their career path. And we cannot ignore that they
performed better than men with higher average grade and used short time to complete the
study(Reis, 2001, p. 28). The preconceptions of women, male stereotyping and exclusion of informal
network slows down women 's step towards the top management positions, and it is not normally
because of gender discrimination, but just about who
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Gender Bias Research Papers
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 view men as being more powerful, influential, and dominant than women in
workplaces. Stereotypes have been embedded in our brains, and we tend to go along with them
without even being aware of what we are doing. There's hope that citizens mindset can be changed if
we take control of the normal, gender bias stereotypes before they get passed on to the next
generation. Are you willing to treat everybody the same ? Every...show more content...
Gender bias often goes overlooked or unnoticed because it is extremely common in workplaces.
People are starting to not realize that they are being bias towards people for not hiring them for
jobs because they feel like the jobs are only for the opposite sex of the person. Why are females
continuously told that they can't play football, but males are allowed to be cheerleaders at
majority of schools and universities ? Safety is an issue for both sports because males can easily
break a bone by tumbling or stunting the wrong way, and woman can break a bone by getting
tackled roughly or landing the wrong way. There are high paying careers for football players and
cheerleaders; therefore females should be allowed an equal chance of making the money that The
National Football League pays male athletes to play football and males should be allowed the same
opportunity to cheer for the NFL players as female cheerleaders would be
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Gender Bias In Nursing
What comes to your mind when you think of a nurse? Usually the image of a women in scrubs with
a stethoscope around her neck is what comes to mind. Although we may not do this on purpose, it is
quite normal for us to see only women unfortunately. When attending hospitals or clinics, I am often
assisted by a female nurse and usually a male physician. Gender bias has largely been present within
the medical field, especially when discussing nurses, physicians, or simply even medical school
students.
This article reached out to me as very interesting and pointed out some factors that I did not realize
prior to reading the article. Discrimination based on your gender should be nothing held against us
in the eyes of the medical field. Looking back into time, the association of women in nursing began
in the mid–1800's. Many of our elders have been raised associating nursing as a feminine occupation,
and they have passed this belief onto their offspring. This belief has been passed down through
several generations, but as time is passing, gender roles are becoming less common, and we need to
translate this into nursing. When talking about gender equality, most of the time we think of women
fighting for the opportunities that are provided to men. This situation is almost completely reversed.
Men are now the minority fighting to have the same opportunities as women in the nursing field. We
need to stop thinking of nursing as a feminine occupation, but as an occupation for all
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Gender Bias And Gender Inequality
The average american female only makes в…” of what the average male does. Whether it is in
school, or the workforce, gender inequality still exists and is a major problem. There is still a
huge difference in the way women get treated compared to the way men get treated. Due to the
invisible barrier that is holding back the success of women, social realities need to be redefined in
order for gender inequality to longer exist. Gender inequality refers to the unequal rights,
responsibilities and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys. There are three main
ideas that contribute to it, but there are still many others that do too. One of them is sexism,
which refers to the range of attitudes, beliefs, policies, laws, and behaviors that discriminate on the
basis of gender. A second idea that also contributes is gender roles. Gender roles are rights,
responsibilities, expectations, and relationships of men and women in a society. The third idea is
gender bias, which is the favoritism toward one gender or the other. All three have a direct
correlation with each other. Gender inequality is most common at school and in the workforce. A lot
of people seems to think men hold a higher rank in life than women do just because they think
women cannot do the same things a man can do. Just because the the anatomy of a woman and a man
are different, doesn't mean one or the other should get better treatment, but that is still a reality
women face today. Men have access to many more
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Essay on Gender Role Bias in Advertising
Gender Role Bias in Advertising
Gender role bias in advertisements has been so prevalent for so long that the untrained eye
wouldn't even discern it. All the same, these biases, for the most part, put women in subordinate
positions and men in dominant ones. This assumption on both the genders is unfair and
demeaning. These ads portray women as subservient and play toys for men. Not only do the
models depict an image nowhere near close to reality, but their bodies are scantily clad and what
few clothes they are wearing are very revealing. These roles for females represent what the
advertisement industry believe buyers deem as the real world. As Goffman asked," What messages
about women have been given to society through magazine...show more content...
With my ad, relative size plays a part in which the male is obviously larger than the female and he
towers over her petite frame. For feminine touch, the male has a clenched fist on her shoulder and
the other hand on a tree. His entire arm is holding her body in its place. This body language says
that the male is in charge and takes an aggressive stance over her, while the girl just stands there
limply and leaning on the tree. Its as if she would fall over if he weren't there to hold her up. For
function ranking, the male is clearly in the managerial position, as he seems to be overpowering
her in every way. For licensed withdrawal, the girl featured seems as though she has left her body
psychologically for the male counterpart to simply ravish. As in many rape cases, victims have
stated that while they are being raped, their mind leaves their body as not to experience the
horrible psychological or even physical pain occurring. This ad depicts a girl who does not seem
present in the situation with a dazed look on her face and a motionless body. The family aspect
doesn't exactly correspond with this particular ad, as a family is not present. With nearly all of the
"frame analysis" characteristics satisfied from this one ad, one must assume that although leaps and
bounds of efforts have been made by society to free women from stereotypical gender roles,
"advertisers are still relying upon their subordination as a tool in the attempt to sell a wide variety
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Research Study on Gender Bias in Education
Gender Biases in Education: Math
Nicole S. Tester
Bryant University
Abstract This research project conducted was to find out whether women were more affected by
gender based expectations than men. This was done by giving both young men and young women a
simple standardized math test which most likely they had all been taught and exposed to in the past.
This particular test was designed to be at or below the performance level of most college students.
There was two versions of the test instructions, with one version providing information about men
typically outperforming women on the test, and the other version stating the opposite. These
instructions were used as a form of deception to prove my hypothesis. My...show more content...
There are clubs devoted to women's sexuality, success, and even fashion senses. There are awards
given to women who have gotten superior grades, been offered great jobs, or are simply a success.
Knowing this, what I want to learn is whether these women who are so highly praised and allowed
the same success as men are still subjects to gender based expectations, more specifically in
learning and education. In my study I will be deceiving the participants into thinking that only
women will be successful in this study or to another group I will be saying only men will be
successful. The way this will be done is by using simple high school level math tests. Before the
test I will be falsely informing half of my participants (equal number of females and males) that
only men will pass this test, and then I will repeat this with the other half of my participants but
falsely informing them of the opposite. The fact that I will play on women's vulnerability will
allow me to learn whether these very empowered and successful women will still be so after being
told they will fail before even trying. My hypothesis is that these women will be affected by such a
statistic and depending on the false statistic they get, they will fulfill it. Methods
Participants
Forty eight undergraduate volunteers (24 males and 24 females) from Bryant University took part
in this study. The average age of participants was recorded at 20.22 years (SD=1.13). No cultural
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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 differently in the classroom? Why do you think professors do/don't do this?
My hypothesis was that respondents would think professors call on men in the classroom due to
their stereotypical qualities of being competitive, confident, and dominant. The overwhelming
majority of people describe women as shy, compassionate, and timid . Men are more willing to
speak up and shout out an answer in the classroom because of their confidence and dominance.
Given these stereotypical traits it would be more likely for a male to answer a question, get called
on, or engage in a conversation with the teacher rather than a women because of women's timid
traits . I believe that the majority of men are less likely to filter a response and think before they
speak in class, therefore leading them to get called on by the professor to share their opinion.
From my own experience I have seen this begin to change over the years possibly because of the
increase in women in the social and political
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Gender Bias Essay
Gender bias, also known as sexism, is a full of attitudes, laws, taboos, preferences, and behaviors
that differentiates and discriminates against either sex. These may be a position of which male
dominance and female subjugation in the modern society. It could also be a form of sexual
stereotypes between men and women, these are commonly experienced in employment versus
other positions. A final place that discrimination is faced is the academic environment, the female
to male ratios are not in sync in certain programs and courses because of this and it is pressuring
men and women to not go into certain fields and do what they love and please. Most
advertisements on Television, magazines, newspapers, online ad's, use a charged sexually image
with a female as the star. Women are to be a pleasure for men, and nothing else. Many people have
different opinions on genders and sexuality and that is okay, but sometimes you just need to keep
them to yourselves. I was walking through Walmart with a friend the other night, and we turned the
corner to go down an aisle and they were walking towards us. As we approached them, they moved
out of the way, so we could get through. There were 5 male specimens, around the ages of 20–24,
two white, one Hispanic, and two black guys. Most of them were very tall, both white guys were
thin and lean, the Hispanic guy was short and lean, and the two black guys were tall and thick. All
five of the guys dress in upper class clothes such as Nike, Adidas, Under armor. As I observed
these guys, they were in a group of friends. They were walking according to race, two white guys
in the front, and then the Hispanic guy was in the middle, and following him was the two black
guys. They were very respectful when we turned the corner and let us go through, as we passed them
they went back into their formation. Two white guys in the front, and then the Hispanic in the
middle, and the two black guys in the back. I also observed that they were having separate
conversations among themselves. As it appeared to me, it looked like they were just socializing and
spending time together, and goofing around. They could have been shopping but none of them had
anything in their hands at the time that we
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  • 1. The Bias Ideas Of Discrimination In The Workplace The meaning of discrimination is the bias opinions towards something that people may not be familiar with. I was surrounded by the ideas of discrimination since I was little, though I have never noticed. I was born in China, where people can barely find foreigners, at least lot less than the american; also when the time I was born gender equality was common, therefore most of the discriminations was based on region, wealth and degrees of education. I remembered always hearing the adults say that people are rude from such places, or people are all thieves from such area. Those "theories" start to become a common knowledge, no one will doubt it if people mention them. Of course I did not know that those are discrimination, but just because I heard so many of them, those ideas turn into a subconscious of mine. In my memory, I have never been discriminated when I was a kid, probably was made fun by people because the disadvantage of my height, but I didn't really pay attention to it. When I look back into my childhood, the reason discrimination did not brother me was not because I lived in a fair society, was because I was born in a upper family within a big city. Most of the neighbours, classmates and friends of my parents that I encounter with were all having a similar background. Everything was looking ordinary for me at that time, however, that peace start to fall apart after I know I will come to the states. When I was a kid, throughout the media or parents, I had somehow Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 2. Essay on Gender Bias in the Classroom Gender Bias in the Classroom RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND THEORIES OF LEARNING Gender inequity is not only learned and accepted in the socialization process that starts at home, but is also present in the school environment form the very early years. Parents and teachers consciously or unconsciously reinforce sex stereotypes. In 1992 Olivares and Rosenthal's research findings examined three areas: 1–interactions in the classroom that are both teacher–to–student and student–to–student 2–instruction features involving relation between classroom activities and the gender of the students assigned to perform the activities 3–the perceptions...show more content... They were also treated more tolerantly than girls during out bursts of temper. The Sadkers asked the question, would females benefit from attending all–girl schools? Here the girls would be surrounded by high achieving female displays and role models. Single–sex schools take pride in strong women role models such as coaches, math and science teachers and most importantly as heads of schools. In coed schools, men monopolize status positions in athletics and positions of power. In 1995 men held two out of three elementary principalship positions, 90% of high school principal positions, and an even higher percentage of superintendencies. Is a single–sex school a place to promote female self–esteem and self–concept which declines among girls as they enter adolescence? The Sadkers caution against the creation of single–sex educational opportunities. They cited that history has shown that when students are separated by race or gender, the lower valued group ends up with fewer resources and a weaker education. How can we meet the needs of all students and promote positive self images for all? Sadkers stress the need to strengthen the coed education model. Several projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation to develop and generate new thought processes in teaching children and reeducating teachers. The Teacher Education Equity Project Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 3. Gender Bias in Everyday Life Essay In the modern United States, biases are found in almost every social institution. These discriminatory practices hurt everyone involved. One of the more evident of these is discrimination based on someone's gender. Gender bias, also known as sexism, refers to a full range of attitudes, preferences, laws, taboos and behaviors that differentiate and discriminates against the members of either sex. These may be the position of male dominance and female subjugation in modern society. It may also be in the form of sexual stereotypes between men and women, which are commonly experienced or encountered in employment, especially on the positions they occupy and their earnings or income. A final instance wherediscrimination is faced is within the...show more content... It is not true; however, that all males have been winners in these historical struggles. While boys and men benefit to some extent from patriarchal relations, they are also damaged by the disciplining practices needed to reproduce misogynist relations. And men and women have different uses, such as a male lifting heavy weights and females singing at the upper register. (Goldberg, 10) Most men and women in every society realize this intuitively. Anthropologists have written at lengths about the areas in which women are unquestionably superior to men. It is through these abilities that the world's women have always fulfilled themselves, just as men have emphasized their singular abilities. (Crane–Seeber and Crane pg 218) While women are more commonly affected by eating disorders, more than a million of the opposite sex battles the illness every day (nationaleatingdisorders.org). Men are told to be muscular and strong, so as to support themselves and their families. Men are also told that feelings should not be shared, and to give in, is to become "womanly". While gender discrimination is illegal in most educational institutions, it still occurs. Discrimination can occur in subtle ways that are not easily identified. Some of the more noticeable ones, however, include differences in admission requirements, differences in educational programs and activities offered, and sexual harassment. Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 4. Implicit Gender Bias Essay Implicit Gender Bias and Women in STEM Fields Most people consider themselves as rational, reasoning individuals who make decisions after considering the facts at hand. Research suggests that this is often not the case, with implicit bias at work shaping one's responses. Researchers at Cornell University have defined implicit bias as "unconscious, unintentional bias" (Royer, Hido & Slotnick, 2017). Predictors of implicit bias include socio–economic status, gender, ethnicity, childhood experience, and cultural experience (Cooley, Payne & Phillips, 2013). Unlike explicit bias which reflects attitudes or beliefs that one endorses on a conscious level, implicit bias refers to attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner resulting from subtle cognitive processes that often operate at a level below conscious awareness and without intentional control (Gyan, n.d.). Of these, implicit gender bias affects the health and social wellbeing of women, as well as disadvantages women economically and in the workplace. As such implicit gender bias is endemic within the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, and this bias can disadvantage women pursing these careers (Moss–Racusin, Dovidio, Brescoll, Graham & Handelsman, 2012). The importance of further study of mitigating interventions of this implicit gender bias is clear. Our hypothesis is that implicit gender bias related to women in STEM fields will Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 5. Gender Bias And Its Effects On Children Courtney Cox Arquette, actress on the hit 1990's sitcom Friends, used In Vitro Fertilization or I.V.F., in late 2003 to conceive her daughter after struggling with infertility. Many couples all over the world are struggling with infertility or genetic diseases, and like Arquette, are turning to I.V.F. for help. Recently with the help of new genetic engineering, scientists have found a way for parents to choose the gender of their unborn child using I.V.F. Couples around the world are either delighted or disgusted by this rather controversial topic. Preselection of gender could cause a gender bias, designs children to desired specifications, and poses a higher risk to the child and the mother. Parents should not be able to select the gender of their unborn children without a logical medical reason. The process of gender preselection poses a high risk to society, particularly by leading to a gender bias. In a 2011 survey, 60% of surveyed couples with a gender preference prefered a boy to a girl (6). If parents are able to preselect their unborn child's sex, the population of boys compared to girls will increase, leading to a gender imbalance. This is harmful to society because over time, men will have a harder time finding a partner. In some western countries, this has already made a large impact. China for example, is expected to have "more than 30 million men to women expected by 2020," explains reporter Fauziah Ibrahim of 101 East News (2). In China, the gender imbalance Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 6. Essay on Gender Bias and Domestic Violence Women have always taken a back seat to men in American society. There has always seemed to be one set of standards that apply to men, and another set of standards that apply to women. This is evident in the home, workplace, and all throughout society. I would like to briefly discuss some of the differences that we learn about our gender, which will enable us to better understand men, women, and domestic violence in society today. Once we understand causation, we can then begin to understand effects and prevention. Our roles as men and women start at the hospital when we are born. Boys get blue blankets while girls get pink blankets. The toys we play with growing up are targeted at either males or females. Toys that are made...show more content... So what makes an abuser? The goal of the abuser is power and control over their partner. Domestic violence can affect all, but more often it is the male inflicting the harm due to their physical advantage and also their societal taught dominating role. The abuser tends to conform to the stereotypical view of the man and women. The man goes out to make the money and support the family, while women stays home to cook, clean, and look after the kids. In knowing this, it is easy to understand why leaving an abusive relationship can be so difficult for the individual being abused, as leaving involves many needed changes and few solutions to the problems. Domestic violence is a very important social problem that we must educate ourselves on because it has such a profound and negative effect on the individual(s) being abused. They are affected mentally, emotionally, physically, and I know from experience that the scars can run very deep. Being in an abusive relationship for three years was devastating to my self–image as a teenager, and because of these feelings of inadequacy, my decreasing esteem allowed me to stay in such a dangerous scenario. Healing from the negative effects of that relationship has been a difficult journey for me, and I can only imagine how much more difficult it must be for women abused for years on end. To this day, I struggle greatly with the ability to let go of my own "control" Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 7. Gender Bias In The Women's Rights Movement In this society, men have more privileges than women in the workplace. It is true the world we live in today has many opportunities for women. Women can vote, have their own property, have jobs like men, etc. However, there is not much equality between men and women working. Women are often worse paid than men with few rights, which is one of many examples of gender bias. Gender bias is the unequal treatment between men and women in the employment area, based on their gender expectations. It turns out gender bias exists especially in the workplace. According to TechRepublic, unequal pay, diminished responsibilities, and positional bias are emphasized for women working.1 These examples of gender bias go back all the way to before when women's rights were fought for. Women then had a basic education, they were generally married off by their parents, they had to take care of their children and the house, which their husbands owned, and they were not acknowledged of their hard work. That all began to change when the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention triggered the beginning of the Women's Rights Movement in the United States. Individualists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony have been devoted to the fight for women's rights.2 Changing the unjust and unequal society was their purpose. Through petitions, meetings, and public speaking, they were able to achieve their purpose. Margaret Mead, an anthropologist said, "Never doubt that a small group of Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 8. Gender, Gender And Gender Bias Language and gender has become an increasingly popular topic of study over recent decades, most likely due to the second wave of feminism in the 1960s and 70s. This can also be seen in the fact that goals of linguistic studies shifted at this point, to not just look at grammatical differences between males and females but to examine sexism and gender bias in language. The wording of such studies becomes increasingly important in the modern era, as gender is now recognised as a socially constructed concept of masculine and feminine features, based on biological sex but not limited to that. Simone de Beauvoir (1952) believed that we gradually become more masculine or feminine but we are not inherently gendered. Language and gender was not developed as a serious subfield until the 1975 publication of Robin Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place. Lakoff argued that women use particular language features in order to deny themselves means of strong expression, which are stereotypically reserved for males. These features include shows of uncertainty, such as hedging and indirect requests. Indirect requests include making a statement in hope that it will elicit the desired response from someone else without openly asking. 'Women's speech seems... to contain more instances of 'well', 'y'know'... words that convey the sense that the speaker is uncertain about what [she] is saying' (Lakoff, 1975:53). Dale Spender (1980) talks about gender power relations, but disagrees with Lakoff as she Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 9. The Importance Of Gender Bias In Our Culture While reading our communication book and taking notes during lectures, I came across a concept that I thought was particularly interesting. The concept I am going to talk about is language and gender and more specifically, gender bias in our culture. I think that this topic is quite interesting and especially relevant in the current times we live in. With women demanding more rights and recognition than ever before, I think that this topic is appropriate to talk about. English is a language that has always had issues with gender equality both in written and spoken form. For example, in old English, many would use the words he or his to refer to anyone regardless of their gender. According to Engleberg and Wynn (2015), "Older English textbooks used sentences such as: every speaker should pay attention to his words". As can be seen in this quote, the word his is substituted to mean anyone who would be reading the book. It can be argued that at the time however, boys were mostly the ones to gain educations. However, this would change as time went on and more girls could go to school, but the use of he or his as a substitution for any person did not change. English is not the only language that is guilty of this. Other languages such as French and Japanese have separate third person plurals and first and second person words. Sweden is a country where this does not exist at all. Instead they have a word, hen, that is used as a gender–neutral pronoun over he or she. Another Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 10. Gender Bias And Its Effect On Education Leedy, LaLonde, and Runk (2003) found that their data supported and built on the findings of other researchers concerning gender stereotypes. They found that girls who were motivated and had mathematical talent were still subject to the effects of gender bias and that they had decreased confidence in their mathematical abilities. The research also indicated a continuing belief that math is a male domain. Females did not acknowledge the stereotype and felt the survey was biased and insulting and left comments saying so. No such comments were left by males. The belief by men that math is a male domain, coupled with the failure of women to acknowledge the biases existence sets up an unrealistic relationship. The researchers postulated that rather than denying biases exist, we must acknowledge them so that we can move on and reform education. They felt that the reforms need to occur outside, as well as inside, the classroom, and must include parents, especially mothers. The attitudes of all parties involved must be changed for reform to be effective. Riegle–Crumb and Moore (2013) found that females were underrepresented in the engineering course they studied. Although female students made up 50% of the enrollment at the high schools, they only comprised an average of 14% of course enrollees. Women in the classes shared similar academic backgrounds with their male classmates, but the women were more likely to have a parent who worked in engineering or a scientific field. Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 11. The Importance Of Gender Bias One of the most debated topics in modern society today is equality. Most everyone agrees that all people are equal, however, most everyone is also implicitly biased about genders whenever it comes to careers. For example, imagine for a moment a random piano teacher. What gender did you automatically think of them as? You more than likely initially imaged a female piano teacher. Now, imagine a random surgeon/ doctor. What gender did you automatically see them as? You probably imaged them as a male. If so, you are experiencing implicit gender bias. Unfortunately, you are not alone in this; society itself implicitly assigns males to scientific careers and women to liberal arts. Implicit bias are the completely unconscious stereotypes and attitudes we have towards society that affects our decisions and understanding of things. The key word in that definition is unconscious. Most people do not even realize they hold this bias; you might not have even realized you were experiencing this bias until reading this paragraph. This ignorance is one of the main reasons this bias is still occurring on a daily basis to most of humanity, and it is the main reason there is such a gender divide in careers today. It is hypothesized that helping people identify their implicit bias (specifically gender career bias) and providing them with basic education and strategies on the topic itself will reduce their gender career bias. The rather recent development of social media has been helpful to Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 12. The Null Hypothesis : Gender Bias 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 p value show no statistical relationship, there is no difference between how men and women think and there is a clear indication that most people think that domestic violence for men is not a distressful issue for its not a considerable number of...show more content... Although men and women show different views, the Cramer's V of 0.154 shows only a weak association. A bigger sample size could've produced different or more reliable results. Gender bias is the distortion of views and preferences based on the sex of a person. Biases are preformed based on what kind of surroundings a person grows up in and their personal experiences. This bias exists in everyone's mind and subconsciously make people act and react in different ways based on stereotypes rather than reality (Rhonda. E, Dugan, 2008). Everyone has different views on male masculinity. Even in this day and age where there are equal rights for both sexes there is a patriarchal view about men in society, where they are classed as the stronger sex which has led to the belief that male to female aggression is more serious than female to male aggrrssion (Drijber et al, 2013). Sexual assaults and DV are disproportionately considered as women centric problems. Surveys conducted reports victims in rape cases are 90% women, one in four women are a victim of intimate partner violence and 44% lesbian women and 61% bisexual women have been subjected to physical abuse by a partner or sexual abuse. (Bureau of Justice Satistics and the centres of Disease control and prevention (CDC). These facts combined with preformed notions Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 13. Gender Equality And Gender Bias Gender equality and gender bias has been vigorously discussed and argued for decades, and it still remains as the issue that cannot be ignored in our society. The NSW department of Education and Training provides the Boys' and Girls' Education Strategy to assist all government schools in NSW to undertake a strategic approach to address gender as an educational issues(NSW DEC). Still, girls are now facing difficulties that arose from not only their abilities but also the influence from their families and the communities. In this essay, problems or difficulties that young girls or female students faced because of other participants in the education or schooling system will be discussed. Strategies and recommendations in regard to those issues will be talked afterwards. Even we say we are living in a gender equal society, but it is rare to see women at the dominant place in each industry. Hundred years before, women were not allowed to study, and men were taking the power to control the society. Nowadays, women are able to have higher education as men do, but some of them still experience blocks in their career path. And we cannot ignore that they performed better than men with higher average grade and used short time to complete the study(Reis, 2001, p. 28). The preconceptions of women, male stereotyping and exclusion of informal network slows down women 's step towards the top management positions, and it is not normally because of gender discrimination, but just about who Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 14. Gender Bias Research Papers 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 view men as being more powerful, influential, and dominant than women in workplaces. Stereotypes have been embedded in our brains, and we tend to go along with them without even being aware of what we are doing. There's hope that citizens mindset can be changed if we take control of the normal, gender bias stereotypes before they get passed on to the next generation. Are you willing to treat everybody the same ? Every...show more content... Gender bias often goes overlooked or unnoticed because it is extremely common in workplaces. People are starting to not realize that they are being bias towards people for not hiring them for jobs because they feel like the jobs are only for the opposite sex of the person. Why are females continuously told that they can't play football, but males are allowed to be cheerleaders at majority of schools and universities ? Safety is an issue for both sports because males can easily break a bone by tumbling or stunting the wrong way, and woman can break a bone by getting tackled roughly or landing the wrong way. There are high paying careers for football players and cheerleaders; therefore females should be allowed an equal chance of making the money that The National Football League pays male athletes to play football and males should be allowed the same opportunity to cheer for the NFL players as female cheerleaders would be Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 15. Gender Bias In Nursing What comes to your mind when you think of a nurse? Usually the image of a women in scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck is what comes to mind. Although we may not do this on purpose, it is quite normal for us to see only women unfortunately. When attending hospitals or clinics, I am often assisted by a female nurse and usually a male physician. Gender bias has largely been present within the medical field, especially when discussing nurses, physicians, or simply even medical school students. This article reached out to me as very interesting and pointed out some factors that I did not realize prior to reading the article. Discrimination based on your gender should be nothing held against us in the eyes of the medical field. Looking back into time, the association of women in nursing began in the mid–1800's. Many of our elders have been raised associating nursing as a feminine occupation, and they have passed this belief onto their offspring. This belief has been passed down through several generations, but as time is passing, gender roles are becoming less common, and we need to translate this into nursing. When talking about gender equality, most of the time we think of women fighting for the opportunities that are provided to men. This situation is almost completely reversed. Men are now the minority fighting to have the same opportunities as women in the nursing field. We need to stop thinking of nursing as a feminine occupation, but as an occupation for all Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 16. Gender Bias And Gender Inequality The average american female only makes в…” of what the average male does. Whether it is in school, or the workforce, gender inequality still exists and is a major problem. There is still a huge difference in the way women get treated compared to the way men get treated. Due to the invisible barrier that is holding back the success of women, social realities need to be redefined in order for gender inequality to longer exist. Gender inequality refers to the unequal rights, responsibilities and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys. There are three main ideas that contribute to it, but there are still many others that do too. One of them is sexism, which refers to the range of attitudes, beliefs, policies, laws, and behaviors that discriminate on the basis of gender. A second idea that also contributes is gender roles. Gender roles are rights, responsibilities, expectations, and relationships of men and women in a society. The third idea is gender bias, which is the favoritism toward one gender or the other. All three have a direct correlation with each other. Gender inequality is most common at school and in the workforce. A lot of people seems to think men hold a higher rank in life than women do just because they think women cannot do the same things a man can do. Just because the the anatomy of a woman and a man are different, doesn't mean one or the other should get better treatment, but that is still a reality women face today. Men have access to many more Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 17. Essay on Gender Role Bias in Advertising Gender Role Bias in Advertising Gender role bias in advertisements has been so prevalent for so long that the untrained eye wouldn't even discern it. All the same, these biases, for the most part, put women in subordinate positions and men in dominant ones. This assumption on both the genders is unfair and demeaning. These ads portray women as subservient and play toys for men. Not only do the models depict an image nowhere near close to reality, but their bodies are scantily clad and what few clothes they are wearing are very revealing. These roles for females represent what the advertisement industry believe buyers deem as the real world. As Goffman asked," What messages about women have been given to society through magazine...show more content... With my ad, relative size plays a part in which the male is obviously larger than the female and he towers over her petite frame. For feminine touch, the male has a clenched fist on her shoulder and the other hand on a tree. His entire arm is holding her body in its place. This body language says that the male is in charge and takes an aggressive stance over her, while the girl just stands there limply and leaning on the tree. Its as if she would fall over if he weren't there to hold her up. For function ranking, the male is clearly in the managerial position, as he seems to be overpowering her in every way. For licensed withdrawal, the girl featured seems as though she has left her body psychologically for the male counterpart to simply ravish. As in many rape cases, victims have stated that while they are being raped, their mind leaves their body as not to experience the horrible psychological or even physical pain occurring. This ad depicts a girl who does not seem present in the situation with a dazed look on her face and a motionless body. The family aspect doesn't exactly correspond with this particular ad, as a family is not present. With nearly all of the "frame analysis" characteristics satisfied from this one ad, one must assume that although leaps and bounds of efforts have been made by society to free women from stereotypical gender roles, "advertisers are still relying upon their subordination as a tool in the attempt to sell a wide variety Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 18. Research Study on Gender Bias in Education Gender Biases in Education: Math Nicole S. Tester Bryant University Abstract This research project conducted was to find out whether women were more affected by gender based expectations than men. This was done by giving both young men and young women a simple standardized math test which most likely they had all been taught and exposed to in the past. This particular test was designed to be at or below the performance level of most college students. There was two versions of the test instructions, with one version providing information about men typically outperforming women on the test, and the other version stating the opposite. These instructions were used as a form of deception to prove my hypothesis. My...show more content... There are clubs devoted to women's sexuality, success, and even fashion senses. There are awards given to women who have gotten superior grades, been offered great jobs, or are simply a success. Knowing this, what I want to learn is whether these women who are so highly praised and allowed the same success as men are still subjects to gender based expectations, more specifically in learning and education. In my study I will be deceiving the participants into thinking that only women will be successful in this study or to another group I will be saying only men will be successful. The way this will be done is by using simple high school level math tests. Before the test I will be falsely informing half of my participants (equal number of females and males) that only men will pass this test, and then I will repeat this with the other half of my participants but falsely informing them of the opposite. The fact that I will play on women's vulnerability will allow me to learn whether these very empowered and successful women will still be so after being told they will fail before even trying. My hypothesis is that these women will be affected by such a statistic and depending on the false statistic they get, they will fulfill it. Methods Participants Forty eight undergraduate volunteers (24 males and 24 females) from Bryant University took part in this study. The average age of participants was recorded at 20.22 years (SD=1.13). No cultural Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 19. 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 differently in the classroom? Why do you think professors do/don't do this? My hypothesis was that respondents would think professors call on men in the classroom due to their stereotypical qualities of being competitive, confident, and dominant. The overwhelming majority of people describe women as shy, compassionate, and timid . Men are more willing to speak up and shout out an answer in the classroom because of their confidence and dominance. Given these stereotypical traits it would be more likely for a male to answer a question, get called on, or engage in a conversation with the teacher rather than a women because of women's timid traits . I believe that the majority of men are less likely to filter a response and think before they speak in class, therefore leading them to get called on by the professor to share their opinion. From my own experience I have seen this begin to change over the years possibly because of the increase in women in the social and political Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 20. Gender Bias Essay Gender bias, also known as sexism, is a full of attitudes, laws, taboos, preferences, and behaviors that differentiates and discriminates against either sex. These may be a position of which male dominance and female subjugation in the modern society. It could also be a form of sexual stereotypes between men and women, these are commonly experienced in employment versus other positions. A final place that discrimination is faced is the academic environment, the female to male ratios are not in sync in certain programs and courses because of this and it is pressuring men and women to not go into certain fields and do what they love and please. Most advertisements on Television, magazines, newspapers, online ad's, use a charged sexually image with a female as the star. Women are to be a pleasure for men, and nothing else. Many people have different opinions on genders and sexuality and that is okay, but sometimes you just need to keep them to yourselves. I was walking through Walmart with a friend the other night, and we turned the corner to go down an aisle and they were walking towards us. As we approached them, they moved out of the way, so we could get through. There were 5 male specimens, around the ages of 20–24, two white, one Hispanic, and two black guys. Most of them were very tall, both white guys were thin and lean, the Hispanic guy was short and lean, and the two black guys were tall and thick. All five of the guys dress in upper class clothes such as Nike, Adidas, Under armor. As I observed these guys, they were in a group of friends. They were walking according to race, two white guys in the front, and then the Hispanic guy was in the middle, and following him was the two black guys. They were very respectful when we turned the corner and let us go through, as we passed them they went back into their formation. Two white guys in the front, and then the Hispanic in the middle, and the two black guys in the back. I also observed that they were having separate conversations among themselves. As it appeared to me, it looked like they were just socializing and spending time together, and goofing around. They could have been shopping but none of them had anything in their hands at the time that we Get more content on HelpWriting.net