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1. Your Paper #3 Final Draft is due Thu, 3/12. The electronic copy is due at turnitin.com. The hard copy (with all work + pink writing center slip attached) is due at the HUMANITIES Division office in room 522-O (2nd floor of the 500 building). You will see a large envelope with "Ms. Liu's English 100 7AM Class" on the front. Put your work in there. Do this by NOON on Thursday.
2. In addition to the other readings listed on your syllabus for this week, I would like you to do a blog response. First, do a search (you can try ebscohost, google,...whatever you like) and find an article (at least a full page long) that deals with gender in American society. Look up something's that interesting to *you*. In your blog response, give us the full title of the article, the source (what publication it can be found in), and then explain how this article challenges, complicates, or adds to our ongoing conversation about gender in American society. For example, maybe you think that our society pays a lot of attention to the issue of women and eating disorders but you think that eating disorders and body image are significant issues for men as well--then you can do a search for an article on that topic, read the article, and write your blog response on it.
Length: 2-3 paragraphs
Due: before our next class meeting (3/17)
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I covered an article published in gender and education, called Assessing the gender climate of an evangelical student subculture in the United States by Professor Alyssa N. Bryant from North Carolina State University. Our discussion on gender thus far has revolved around the idea of the portrayal of women in masochistic type situations, or environments in which a dominant male was clearly the authoritative figure in much of the advertising depictions of gender roles, but the fascinating thing about the article I chose is that it explores a deeper layer of gender role acceptance, something that goes further than what we have discussed so far on gender stereotypes in the media and focuses individually on gender roles in a religious college club. The article was published in gender and education and is called Assessing the gender climate of an evangelical student subculture in the United States by Alyssa N. Bryant from North Carolina State University.
ReplyDeleteBryant’s behavioral trend study in 2003 among student evangelical groups revealed that “students who surround themselves with religious friends tend to become more traditional in their beliefs about roles of women during college (2003a). Evidence in her study can be found in the interview and documentary process; Bryant noticed that nearly every college evangelical club event she attended was run by groups of men and the leadership roles were even more biased toward male positions with only a single female in any type of leadership or authority role (Bryant 618). During the interview phase, she asked 25 students if the image of the Christian god was more masculine or more feminine. She reported almost every student answering that god was a father or male type figure; only one person suggested that god was a combination of male and female or masculine and feminine combined (Bryant 621).
My own interpretations of this study are that the adherent behavior of evangelicals could also be categorized as an older and more prominent form of gender influence itself (like the media theory). For example, the scripture that guides much of the moral behavior of evangelical Christians is one of the oldest and most well known forms of gender segregation of all time: In Leviticus 12:1-5, God states that “If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days...But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks..." an indication that the moral foundation of many evangelical literalists, are clumped together with the belief that women are somehow twice as polluting at birth than men. Perhaps the days of college students reading the old-testament together for recreation are over but the gender discrimination still remains clear in the scriptures and ancient moral belief systems of these religious texts.
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Bryant N. Alyssa: Assessing the gender climate of an evangelical student subculture in the United States; Gender and education. Vol. 18, Number 6. November 2006 pp.613-634
Oooopps, ignore the first sentence. Start reading at "Our discussion on gender thus far....." I forgot to take out the first cite when I moved it to the bottom of the first paragraph. My mistake
ReplyDeleteI decided to choose and read about male and female inequality. The interesting essay that I read relates to our discussions in class and deals with the issues of inequality employment. One of the major problems with inequality employment is this issue has been going on for decades, and it is one the most pressing issues today. I found this problem with human gender to be quite disappointing for the females.
ReplyDeleteWomen don't recieve as much credit as the men do because of our countries male-dominating societies. Rarely you will find a city where women and men are seen equally. It is quite upsetting for females who may work equally or twice as much as a male handling the same job, because women do not get the same benefits, wages, and job opportunities as the males do. It isn't fair to see the hard working females recieve no credit towards all the things they may do to help the company succeed. For those women who do get recognized for their hard working efforts are some of the few lucky ones in this country, for there aren't many places you can find throughout the U.S where women aren't expected to exceed a certain limit. This can all easily change if a female takes over the presidency, but it is a pretty hard accomplishment knowing that your odds are against you.
Sometimes life just isn't fair, especially for the females. Females already go through enough trouble, like pregnancy, finding their true love, and even job employments. Not to put females on the spot, but they have always been under priveledged, since America beginnings until now. Gender inequality isn't something new to the public eye. Society does recognize the issue with inequality, but never really wants to discuss the issue, because males have always been the dominant gender and you can best believe that America tends to keep it that way.
Works Cited:
"Gender Inequality." Weblog post. Rev. of Gender Inequality. Gender Inequality.
Ed. CNelson. 24 May 2008. 24 May 2008
I found an article about modern day pay gaps between males and females in the workplace. It is a sad truth that even after the Equal Pay Act, there is still noticeable gaps in pay for equal positions in the workplace. Women are still today getting paid significantly less than their male counterparts in the same job fields as they are. There are many instances where males in lower divisions of the workplace are actually getting paid more than some of the women in the upper divisions of the company or corporation. There is clearly a problem with sexism going on in the workforce.
ReplyDelete"Gender Pay Gap" , Billiterri, Thomas J.
March 14th, 2008
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I found an article "Gender Inequality in Society" that deals with invisible inequality within the society. Even though revolution of racism and women inequality have been manipulated, it is still ongoing issues within our society and through our hidden conception which was transferred from the family lifestyles. According to the article, women still have less chance, opportunity than men in education and social participation which is hardly recognized by our society.
ReplyDeleteIt is suprising that illiterated women are still enormous in the world. Not only in the U.S., but almost every country have priority on men than women. They are treated differently in the school, company, and family. Men got paid more than women without considering how much they accomplished. On top of that, parents spend more money for their son in education than their daughter. It is interesting facts since people are not precisely aware of ongoing issues in our society.
"Gender Inequality in Society", peacekeeper, 2007-2008 Internet Marketing by Online Search Solutions
I did a research on relation between gender and media. As we discussed in the class, females seem to be more "used" in the pop culture media.
ReplyDeletePrimarily the big issue is how females are more "sexually" portrayed to represent and attract consumers to purchace certain products. It was interesting to me how females are more likely to be portrayed more then males and how this creates stereotypical image on females.
The article gives broken down analysis on how women are portrayed in the meda. First is the idea of beauty. Generally about 85% of each magazine is devoted to the beautification of women's hair, face, and body. "Women are bombarded with airbrushed, perfectly lit, constantly happy pictures of gorgeous models that portray every ideal of our society."
This idea and concept stereotypes all women to be beautiful and women are striving to meet the "industry standards of beauty."
The perception on beauty had me think and come up with my personal explanation on why females are mostly used in advertisements. Man make money and support the family. Man are in charge of the financial support and it's obvious to target the "wallet." This attribution in advertisements may be successful but it create the whole idea on how females are very vulnerable.
Works Cited:
"The Oppression of Females In Advertising"
Oakwood Publishing Company