Essays on Gender Studies Page 4

The novel, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane, takes place in the slums of New York City during the 1890’s. It is about a girl, Maggie Johnson, who is forced to grow up in a tenement house. She had a brother, Jimmie, an abusive mother, Mary, and a father who died when…

Over time, marriage has been the solid base for procreation and child rearing, which is the foundation of family and social life. There isrecognition that allowing polygamous or closely related couples into our marriage system would be dysfunctional in our society. Does thisnot apply to same-sex marriage as well? The social unacceptability of same-sex marriage,…

How is it reasonable that a men’s school sports team can be transported on planes and feast on steak, while a women’s team from a similar school, goes in a van and eats fast food? It’s not, but rather this happens regularly these days even with laws passed keeping this sort of segregation. In 1972,…

Income inequality is a major ongoing problem in the United States of America. The American Dream started out as everyone being able to have equal opportunities. In many ways this has never been completely true, because there has always been some sort of inequality occurring. Inequality comes in different forms, race, gender, social classes are…

Gender refers to the categorization of female and male or it is the state of being feminine or masculine. Gender is socially constructed roles assigned according to biological characteristics. Society plays a vital role in gendering. Society influences the difference between masculinity and femininity. Women and men play exclusive roles that are functional to whole…

Gender inequality has always been a constant debate since the mid 70’s. Women have been fighting for their rights to be as equal as men. For example, voting was once an issue. The specific gender roles women have to be submitted too they were expected to take care of the house and children for years…

In Raymond Souster’s humorous poem, “Young Girls”, the female children are portrayed as afraid and awkward as they begin to mature into young women. Initially introduced as “flowers… whose fragrance has not sprung” (line 4), or women who have yet to blossom and become fully developed, the girls’ innocence is seen in how they walk…

Throughout history, many feminist movements occurred including the women’s movement for equality striving to provide beneficial conditions for women. The 1900s was a significant time period for women as it helped improve living conditions, working conditions, and injustice between men and women. Topics such as equal pay, abortion rights, jury duty, and the Equal Rights…

Nikki Graf, Anna Brown, and Eileen Patten stealthily and expertly report on the gap of income between men and women in an article titled, “The Narrowing, but Persistent, Gender Gap in Pay.” Melanie Miller, associated with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, acknowledges this matter: “Workplace gender equality is achieved when people are able to access…

It would be extremely difficult to approach the topic of gender inequalities in Yemen without putting the topic in perspective by placing it in a cultural context. The greatest honor for women in Yemen consists of feminine seclusion while the greatest shame is attached to market activity. To truly understand gender dynamics in Yemen, it…