...Reading Response Gender Google Searches When the class originally began to discuss the different Google searches that we would be analyzing, my original thoughts were that the “suggested searches” would not differ between the two genders too drastically. Little did I know the recent history on the topics typed into the search line proved that to be very wrong. There were four different types of initial searches the class would be looking at. One that asked Google what men and women should do, what they shouldn’t do, what they cannot do, and what the sex’s need to do. All cues were searched for both men and women, analyzing what Google used as “suggested searches” or “common searches” from past attempts explored on the search engine. Before taking 350, prior to the experiences and information learned in the classroom, my views towards gender issues as a whole were very misguided and skewed. The issues between genders in economics, and the world in general, almost didn’t even occur to me, as I had never really had too much of an interest in learning about the different problems that follow. Its not that I didn’t care that these issues and problems were happening, but a lack of information towards them didn’t allow me to investigate further. Thankfully after almost completing 350, gender issues in economics and the world in general are now very apparent, and in the future will hopefully be closer to achieving equality with the help of our class, and the classes to come....
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...“Parenting as a Religious Jewish Feminist” by Haviva Ner- David Haviva Ner-David’s, the writer of “Parenting as a Religious Jewish Feminist,” talks about the tallit (prayer shawl) and the tefillin (little boxes strapped onto the arm and forehead that contain scriptural passages), both traditionally worn by only men for prayer, which she believes enhances her perception of God and the sanctity of her own body. She mentions that in the bible Michael the daughter of King Saul and the first wife of King David “Wore tefillin and Sages did not protest her action.” It was most commonly understood that the Rabbis exempted women from performing certain time bound mitzvoth, such as putting on tefillin, because women’s time belongs to others their children and their husbands. As a mother of four with Michal being the oldest she talks about how she takes being a Jewish mother seriously. She introduces her children to Toraah and Mitzvot with love. She does not want Michal to grow up feeling as a Jewish female, resentful of her religion or marginalized and irrelevant all of which she often felt as a child and young woman. David goes on about how she would love to see her children adopt the values that she had chosen for herself meaning seeing her daughter pray with tefillin, and hear her son tell her that he refuses to say bracha thanking God for not having created him a woman. Michal and her other daughters may decide to follow in her religious feminist path or may not. As a mother she...
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...GOOD WIVES Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650 – 1750 Good Wives sheds an illuminating light on the lives of early American women in New England. According to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, men used women both positively and negatively. From my understanding of the book “Good Wives” there were more negative then positive ways of how men used women between 1650 and 1750 in Northern New England. The true test of this book was based on the fact that their were no female diaries on record to date written until 1750; so doing a true evaluation on facts of the time required use of many different resources other than written materials. In my opinion, most of this book may be facts but a true portion of it is hearsay; however, Ulrich did write two other books on tops similar to this one so she has a reputation for being very knowledgeable on this subject. The one and only positive way men (husbands) used women (wives) were as Deputy Husbands. A Deputy Husband would stand in the place of her husband in his absence or if he were unable to perform his duties. “Some wives were servile, some were shrews, others were respected companions who shared the authority of their spouses in the management of family affairs” (p. 38). In performing her husband’s duties, a wife not only gained the respect of her husband, but she also gained his trust as well. As a consort (“a consort tuned her life to her mate’s” (p. 9)), a wife who harmonized with her husband...
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...Skye Meadows EGL 102-09 John Steinbeck's short story "The Chrysanthemums" is about a proud, vigorous woman named Elisa Allen who feels frustrated with her present life. Like Elisa, the chrysanthemums are beautiful, vigorous, and flourishing. Their flowerbed, like Elisa’s home, is neat, orderly and scrupulously authoritatively mandated. Elisa specifically identifies herself with the blossoms, even verbally expressing that she becomes one with the plants when she inclines to them. When the tinker descries the chrysanthemums, Elisa visibly brightens, just as if he had descried her rather than the chrysanthemums. She offers the chrysanthemums to him at the same time she offers herself, both of which he disregards and tosses aside. His repudiation of the flowers additionally mimics the way society has abnegated women as nothing more than mothers and housekeepers. Just like her, the flowers are unobjectionable and additionally nonessential: both are merely decorative and integrate little worth to the world. First, the chrysanthemums denote Elisa’s young children. She is always in her garden and manages the chrysanthemums with love and care, just as she would handle her own children. Elisa is very protective of her blossoms and puts a cable barrier around them; she ascertains "no aphids, no sowbugs or snails or cutworms" are there. "Her terrier fingers destroy such pests afore they can get commenced" ().These pests represent natural harm to the blossoms, and, just as any good mother...
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...The Difference between Men and Women in Society Over the year’s stereotypes, views and places of men and women in society have changed a lot, some for better and some for worse. Some people tend to believe and follow the crowd maybe because certain things were taught to them growing up and hearing it again from others drills it deeper into their minds. Others possibly could be due to the fact that they are not open minded about things like equality and giving other people chances to move above where they sit. Unfortunately that is how the majority of society is and it doesn’t always change for the better. Men and women both are the same in certain aspects but treated so different in many others. A general setting in where this happens is in society. Before I get into what they are I want to talk about where they come from and what they are influenced by. The main contributor to this subject is the media. Things like music, television, movies, internet and even things like blogs can set an idea or thought and then kick it into motion. The thing that differs how an idea from present time to past time spreads is the media. In this time we have many more influences on society then 50 years ago. Our parents and elders are also a huge part of where we get our views on men and women I society because they get it from their parents and so on, it all goes back so far. Our culture is also so influential on everything we believe nowadays and our culture is what set the ideas for our grandparents...
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...ATTITUDE OF MALE EMPLOYEES TOWARD FEMALE MANAGERS IN SELECTED ORGANIZATIONS IN GHANA Alexander Preko PhD/CE, Business Studies Department Wisconsin International University College, Ghana, Legon Ghana ABSTRACT The study examines the views of male employees working under female heads in selected organizations in Ghana. The research is significant because it testifies how male negatively regard female heads despite series of both international and national conferences and platforms that advocate for women to assume managerial positions at the workplace. The study employed a case study and descriptive research design. The sample size was 122 respondents from 17 organizations. A purposive random technique was used to select only male employees who have worked or are still working under female heads. Questionnaires and secondary data were used to collect data. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze data which were presented into simple descriptive tables. The study revealed that majority of the male employees (69.5%) preferred to work under male managers and coded managerial positions as masculine position. It is recommended, therefore, that male employees should embrace and integrate female heads in decision making positions, as women now constitute majority of the working population in the world. Keywords: attitudes, influence, managerial position, negative, perceptions, positive. International Refereed Research Journal ■ www.researchersworld...
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...part of us it enables us to be our best selves. I think that Alison Armstrong gives important useful reasons of understanding both of sexes so we can both better ourselves and understand each other. One reason why it is important and useful to understand our two sided nature it will bring out the best out of each other. We have to understand that men and women aspects of our nature experience survival, and security. Another reason is communication that is important also so that both genders can both have that balance and both can be on the right track so it won’t be any misunderstanding. It depends on one’s ability to produce results so that both genders will feel safe and secure when they have the greatest opportunity to produce results and that comes when they feel respected and trusted by the people that they work with and by the people they care for. I also think that its important factor of letting both sexes feel like their respected and wanted that will bring out the best of both genders. The most important reason is establishing a connection with the opposite sex. The women will experience safety and she will feel connected when she’s getting the attention from the people around her. Both men and women have instinct that can antagonize one another. The man will have a single focus and that will cause him to pay...
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...mechanism of communication to address employees’ problems regarding wages and salary. They need this formal salary structure because there is no employee involvement in setting up salary structure, and there is no job evaluation committee. Also, this structure is necessary to be able to evaluate the relative worth of each job compared to key jobs, to categorize, rank jobs into rate ranges, to ensure there’s no discrimination in terms or gender, race and religion, and to make sure that the salary is related to the employees’ performance and capability. 2. Paying 10% more attracts more applicants to this job. Jack believes that it provides employee loyalty and reduces turnover. The problem with this is that it makes employees loyal to high pay rate and it reduces the turnover for only those employees who only concern about the salary rate, however indirect financial payments and other factors also influence the employee’s turnover. 3. Carter’s male-female differential is not wise in my opinion. The salary should be based on performance, and not gender. This disobeys the Equal Pay Act, and it doesn’t maintain individual equity. It is discrimination against female workers. His pay plan is inefficient. It can create conflict and arguments between female and male workers, since it’s not fair. Male workers may not work in optimum performance, and female workers have job dissatisfaction, arguments and grievance. 4. I would suggest Jennifer to set up a logical pay plan properly...
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...Gender Identity Every sexual thought, attraction,preference, development, feeling, memory, fantasy, and choice stem from complex brain activity. A complex genetic code determines body type; but that type does not always dictate sexual identity. Sexual identity is an even more complex development that encompasses hormone levels, social learning, individual perception, and attraction. Humans are born genetically male or female; but that does not necessarily control which sexual identity the individual will discover. Planned Parenthood (2012) defines gender identity as how a person feels about and expresses his or her gender; despite genetic or natural gender assignment. Some humans are genetically male or female and identify with the traditional gender roles; but others may find that the traditional cultural norms do not match their feelings or thoughts. Sexual identity is the sexual part of human expression that does not include ideas like sexual orientation, sexual preference, physical gender, or body type. If an individual considers his or her gender as female and is at ease with referring to his or her individual sexual characteristics in feminine terms, his or her gender identity is female. Gender identity has nothing to do with the physical characteristics of gender; but focuses on how the individual thinks (either masculine or feminine) and how he or she expresses those feelings. Ghosh (2012) explains gender identity as “self-identified, as a result of a combination...
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...Feminism can be roughly defined as a movement that seeks to enhance the quality of women’s lives by impacting the norms and moves of a society based on male dominance and subsequent female subordination. The means of change in the work place, politically, and domestically. Women have come a long way since the 19th century. Women have been trying to prove to the male dominant world that they are equal. They can perform and complete any tasks equal, or in some cases better than man. Feminism has changed the definition of men in many ways. Women in the work place have transposed dramatically since the 19th and mid 20th century. Even if women had any education in the 19th century they were not allow to manifest any of it. It just was not proper for women to give any signs of intelligence and a brain of their own. They were to prepare themselves to become wives and mothers, which were the extent of their entire lives. In the early and mid 20th century some women were starting to be brave and take a stand for themselves. The beginnings of feminism were starting to take its massive role in society. More and more women were getting educated and looking for employment opportunities that had power. Men no longer can be in control of everything. Men in the work place started to feel impotent. But women fed off each other and gave each other strength. They were not looking for just the secretarial jobs; they were taking some men’s jobs and being good at it. They were becoming police officers...
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...Loneliness and Alienation The feeling of ‘loneliness and alienation’ is the most terrible emptiness of life. The Short story, “The Chrysanthemums” by John Stein back is about the woman protagonist Elisa Allen. In addition, in a single stanza haiku” The Strange Beautiful Woman” by Marylyn Nelson, is the poem about the woman in the mirror. Both women have intensive desire of the fulfillment in their life and struggling in their inadequate world to overcome the feeling of Loneliness and Alienation. “The Chrysanthemums” is a story of a Woman’s proud and emotion. Elisa is a strong woman who feels frustrated with her present life. Her frustration stems from not having a child and from her husband’s failure to admire her romantically as a woman. The garden of chrysanthemums is the only outlet to relive her frustration. Steinbeck symbolizes the chrysanthemums as Elisa’s children. She handles her garden and tends the chrysanthemums with love and care, as she would nurture her own kids as a protective mother. She places a wired fence around her flowers; She assures “no aphids, no snow bugs, or snails or cutworms” are there. Her terrier finger destroys such pests before they can get started” (228). Elisa‘s ability to grow such flowers reinforces the fact that the flowers are the replacement of her children. Feminism in Nelson’s point of view, “A strange beautiful woman” at a first glance, seems innocent which does not let her accept her identity. Nelson introduces...
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...Gender Identity The origins of gender, like the origins of human nature, are sometimes said to lie in biological determination, sometimes in social construction. Feminist theory began with criticising biological determinism and its portrayal of women, and inevitably emphasised the social construction of gender. However, seeing gender or human nature as wholly or mainly socially constructed seems to deny the biological processes which comprise our physical experiences of ourselves, and it is this omission which has recently led some writers (both feminist and antifeminist) to lay stress on the significance of biology in human behaviour and its development. These two opposing views of the origin of behaviour are still dominant, despite various attempts to emphasise how biology and social context might interact to produce, say, gender differences: this continued dominance of the nature/nurture duality has considerable political relevance to feminism, and has contributed to the rise of the New Right ideology concerning, for example, the natural role of women and the family. Gender-role development is one of the most important areas of human development. In fact, the sex of a newborn sets the agenda for a whole array of developmental experiences that will influence the person throughout his or her life. The often controversial study of the development of gender is a topic that is inherently interesting to parents, students, researchers, and scholars for several reasons. First...
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...reason for the changes of the turnover rate or loss of employees and morale or happy workers. In this data set it will show the positive and negative effects of the workplace environment and hours worked, efficiency of training, degree of pay, equality of treatment, inner office communication and job protection. This study will also show the area the employee worked in and how long they have worked in that position. It also will show the status of their gender (male or female) and determined if a manager or supervisor took the survey. Types of Data Used and Collection Questions 1 thru 10 are quantitative because the variable studied indicates how many or how much. Thus, this study shows how many workers felt negatively or positively about each question they were asked. Questions A thru D are qualitative because the characteristic analyzed in this studied are categorical and non-numerical. This part just focused on the division they worked in and the length of time they have held their place. It also shows their gender status (male or female) and qualifies or verifies if a manager or supervisor participated in the study....
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... ABSTRACT In this email I will discuss different probabilities and distributions. I will also explain statistics and the different things that can be found on a distribution chart. Memo: Probability and Distributions To: American Intellectual Union From: Date: January 19, 2014 Subject: Overview of Database Dear Sir or Madam, This email will consist of the overview of a data set, how statistics and probability are used in the real world and the many different types of variables. There will also be information on the distribution chart that will be given. The variables on the data set are gender, age, department, position, tenure with company, job satisfaction, intrinsic, extrinsic, and benefits. The qualitative variables consist of gender, department, and position. The quantitative variables consist of age and the tenure with the company. Statistics and probability are used every day. They are used in sports, for weather forecasts, people that play the lottery and scientists also use them to find treasure in the bottom of the ocean. It is really amazing how much statistics and probability are used in the real world. They are used for the simplest things like testing new medications, what percentage of people will recover from certain surgery and also to decide on which vehicle is the best one to buy. Statistics is what keeps an organization going. When a person does the things in their job...
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...US Persons Employed in Educational Administrative Services Introduction: Using historical data, predictions were made using Crystal Ball Predicator for persons employed in educational administrative services in the United States. The predictions were made by comparing the total number of persons in the US workforce, the number of men, and the number of women in educational services. The data set analyzed for Crystal Ball Predictor is comprised of historical data provided by the United States Census Bureau. The ranges of dates for the data begin in 2000 and ended in the year 2010. Respectively, the predictions began in 2011 and ended in 2020. The charts provided in this summary were generated by a report within Crystal Ball Predictor. Additional historical information and more recent data were gathered from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. The writer of this summary compared the Crystal Ball predictions with predictions provided by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the percentages of the Crystal Ball Predictor slightly varied, the Crystal Ball Predictor and United States Bureau of Labor Statistics predictions provided similar conclusions. Crystal Ball Predictor and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (How do they compare) Female compared to Males in Education Services The data set suggest that there are more female educational administrators compared to men, however, the data also suggest that the male population is steadily growing. Compared...
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