...In a male dominated career, becoming a law enforcement officer may seem unreachable for many prospective female employees. Movies show women hiding behind big, strong men in the wake of danger. When you look in costume stores you see male firefighters, police officers, and army men. You look to the other side of the store for women and you see fairies, princesses, and lady bugs. Women are not given the credit or many of the opportunities they deserve, such as becoming a law enforcement officer. The lack of women police officers and game wardens is due to many factors, such as lack of respect, the salary gap, and sexist beliefs also known as the "gender gap." According to Montana Fish and Game, women make up less than twelve percent of law enforcement careers nationwide. Of that twelve percent, game wardens contain the lowest percent of female employees, less than seven percent career-wide. Game wardens are most widely known for giving citations for hunting and fishing violations. The stereotype that hunting and fishing is a "man's hobby" drives women away from the hobby and from the careers that come along with that hobby. According to the National Association of Women Wildlife Officers, many female game warden cadets who then turned away from the career gain many stereotypes. The most...
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...why gender differences occur in crime, but to what extent, is the question that will be answered within this essay. This will be done by also assessing the value of other theories and arguments in order to see how useful the chivalry thesis is in understanding gender differences. The chivalry thesis suggests that more sexism on the part of the criminal justice system, such as the male-dominated police and courts, means that women are treated more leniently than men. There is much evidence for the chivalry thesis, for example according to the Home Office, women are consistently treated less severely by the law, with first offenders about half as likely to be given a sentence of immediate imprisonment than males are. In addition, female offenders are generally regarded by the police as a less serious threat than men, and are therefore more likely to benefit from more informal approaches to their offences, particularly for minor offences, such as cautions or warnings rather than being charged. In addition, women do receive more cautions than men, but this is partly because they commit relatively more minor offences like shoplifting, and they are more likely than men to admit their offences, which is necessary before the police can issue a caution. As a result, the criminal justice system will appreciate their honesty and let them off with lighter punishments. Hence, showing how the chivalry thesis can be useful in explaining gender differences in crime. Furthermore, women offenders...
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...Jordon Roman COMP110 4/22/15 Women in The Police Force In today's world men and women are looked at as equals, but for some reason when it comes to certain jobs they are looked at differently. There are still jobs that are expected of men to do and not women. People still say things like “A women can’t do a mans job”, which is very unfair to say and in some cases a women may be able to perform the job better than a man. In some scenarios that police face everyday a womans mind may think differently then a mans. Woman use different parts of their brain and estrogen and testosterone make the brain work differently. Estrogen influences performance on tests of fine motor skills and spatial ability. Women can be in the police force but they...
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...Gender Differences Michael Grindstaff 11/2/13 Michael Grindstaff Gender Differences 11/2/13 Gender Differences Gender stereotypes are strong in our culture and even put preconceived notions in our minds of what profession we will be when we grow up. The differences in men and women’s brain do show men are better at mathematical jobs than women, however, it should not deter women from wanting to be engineers. Stereotypically, girls are soft spoken, gentle, caregivers, on the other hand, boys are outspoken, direct, and confident. These stereotypes are embedded in our minds from when we are little, even impacting our thoughts of which gender should occupy which profession. We look at specific jobs and correlate them with a certain gender. When children are growing up they often want to be a specific profession such as, girls may want to grow up to be a teacher or nurse, and boys want to be a firefighter or a police officer. Girls are taught that they must relate to others in order to survive, while boys are taught that they must compete with others to survive. Not only is it our brains that are different, but our upbringings and stereotypes of gender roles play an important role in how we communicate with each other. The more in-depth you look at the topic gender differences in working and communicating with others, the more it gets you thinking not only of how co-workers communicate with each other but how the public communicates with a professional due to their...
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...Gender Stereotyping in Advertising In the Swiffer® commercial, Morty Are You Listening? We meet Lee and Morty, an older married couple who are showing us how Swiffer® makes cleaning so much easier for Lee, the wife. We see Morty telling Lee to be careful climbing up on a stool to dust the top of a cabinet and saying, “There has to be an easier way.” This is a major gender stereotype. Morty could have climbed on the stool and dusted himself. After they receive the Swiffer® duster, we see Lee making her way around the house and dusting different areas. As she is dusting, she is talking to Morty and commenting about what a great job the Swiffer® is doing. They show Marty yawning, while Lee is talking to him. As Lee continues to talk to him, they show Morty fast asleep. This is another gender stereotype. The man of the house relaxes and falls asleep, while the woman cleans around him. For the older generations in the United States, many women will not have a problem with this. This was how they were raised and how they have lived for most of their lives. However, many women in the younger generations would most likely find this commercial offensive. They are being raised in homes where the woman can be the major breadwinner, while the man stays home and takes care of the house. It seems as though, the manufacturer is implying that women are the only ones who clean the home, while the man will sit and watch or eventually fall asleep. If the manufacturer...
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...everyday life. Furthermore, the movie shines a light on racism, gender discrimination, and police brutality within the everyday life of Americans. The movie was originally criticized for reinforcing stereotypes instead of smashing them. I personally believe that this initial assumption made by many viewers was unjust. The movie highlighted stereotypes that affect people of all backgrounds and showed up how we may contribute to them as well. While...
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...Gender Differences in Working and Communicating with Others In organizations there are numerous factors that outline the foundation for a strong, successful and smooth operating company. The key is having wonderful communication across the board, it can increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction and help recognize an outstanding leader in an organization. Nonverbal, verbal, written, and any means by which getting one’s point across to another can be categorized as communication. Communicating can be taken for granted since we all do this every day, however, it is important we have the skills to know how to properly communicate with one another. Everyone communicates differently due to their education background, where they were raised, age and gender. The one, which I am going to focus on is gender and what impact that, has on communication. There are clear gender differences in how we communicate and this can even have an affect in the workplace, such as situations can arise where there are misunderstandings between men and women. The way in which men and women communicate stem from the differences in the brain. One major structural difference is that “males generally have more activity in the mechanical centers of the brain, while women have more activity in centers of the brain dedicated to verbal communication and emotion” (Wikninews). In female brains the corpus callosum, the part of the brain that regulates communication within the brain is larger than...
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...Abstract The concept of ethnocentrism is the practice of judging other cultures according to our own culture (Maciones, 2012); doing so inadvertently we use this as a racist and stereotype judgment. The movie “The Chaser” was filmed in South Korea; I will compare the movie with my culture as an Americanized-Hispanic. Introduction Ethnocentrism can be defined as our point of view of another culture; basing our opinion by comparing it to our own culture. Depending on how one uses this categorization we can easily come to a conclusion which becomes more of a stereotype or racist judgment. The effects of ethnocentrism can be negative and affect others in their life in great multitudes. We can use the example from 9/11. Since then many Muslims have been judged and put into a category simply because of their religion; not everybody who is Muslim is also tied into al-Qaeda. Just because woman/man wear head gear also make them an extremist who is out to bomb something. But because of this tragedy, we have done just that, accused and damned their religion and beliefs; because they are not like us and well because of 9/11. “The Chaser” The movie I chose was “The Chaser”; a movie filmed in South Korea about an ex-detective turned pimp who finds himself in financial trouble because two of his girls disappeared. After sending his last girl, he finds out that the customer is also the last customer of the other two girls who just went missing;...
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...history, there are reports of police abusing discretion to satisfy their prejudiced beliefs. Some examples of this are the beating of Rodney King in 1991, the deaths of African American citizens during the Hurricane Katrina tragedy in 2005, detainment of Professor Gates, and, of course, the abuse of African Americans during slavery in the early days of America (Walker, Spohn, & DeLone, 2012). It seems eliminating all discrimination in law enforcement is close to impossible. Today, institutionalized, contextual, and individual acts of discrimination keep the attainment of pure justice just out of society’s reach. Types of Discrimination Institutionalized discrimination is not always intended, but occurs when a policy or procedure inadvertently leaves or singles out a specific group of people. In modern law enforcement practices, this form of discrimination is reflected through the war on drugs. Through research and years of enforcing drug laws, it has come to be expected that the common drug player will be an African American male. Hispanics are also commonly singled out through the war on drugs. While this discrimination is unintentional, African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be arrested for drug related offenses than their white non-Hispanic counterparts. Because this stereotype has proven useful in the past, officers are more likely to search for drugs or signs of drug use when encountering a person that fits into the stereotype. When striving for pure justice...
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... | |Stereotypes |Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into| | |account. | |Prejudice | a negative attitude toward an entire category of people. | |Labeling theory |Is the view of deviance to which being labeled as a “deviant” leads a person to engage in deviant | | |behavior. | Part II Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Gender • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Race |Black people love chicken |White people get better jobs |All Arabs and Muslims are | | | |than black people |terrorist | |Gender |Females with boy haircuts or |Males who hang with a lot of...
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...I believe that stereotyping is a daily occurrence now in our society, people use and label others as being dumb blondes or a person with tattoos should be apart of a gang. How many times have you heard someone say some of these things?(rhetorical question) better yet how often have you thought of something similar. Stereotypes are used to define a certain person and it affects our ability to understand others around us. There are many different types of stereotyping, for example stereotyping of culture, groups of individuals and gender and racial profiling which are the two most common forms. Racial profiling is a form of discrimination, where a person's race or cultural background is used as extra evidence to suspect if they have broken a law. An example of racial profiling is DWB which stands for 'driving while black', where a police officer is allowed to pull a motorist over because he or she is black. Just last year, Sandra Bland a 28-year-old African American woman, who had been pulled over, threatened by a Taser and...
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...public, and recorded by the police Crimes detect and solved by the police Crimes reported to the British Crime Survey. This has occurred annually since 1983, interviewing approx 47000 adults about their experiences as victims of crimes such as burglary and assault. Problems with official statistics some sociologists, such as Barry Hindess, have argued that official statistics on crime, do have serious deficiencies. There are several reasons for these deficiencies. there are many reasons why the public may not report all crimes to the police: they may not realise they’ve been a victim, embarrassment, they may implicate themselves in a criminal act, etc. Another reason there are also many reasons why the police may not take action against all offences which are known to them. Sociological studies of the police, such as that conducted by Simon Holdaway in the 1980s, demonstrate that the police simply cannot take action against all offences which they identify, and therefore have to prioritize their activities. Gender and Crime – What the statistics say? – The statistics are correct - womens crime rate is lower Reasons why: The statistics are correct - mens crime rate is lower Reasons why: The statistics are incorrect – women commit more crime - they are not caught / treated more leniently Women are committing more crime today Women and victimisation Sex-role theory and gender socialization: gender socialization encourages women to adopt feminine characteristics...
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...Identify and explain gender issues that arise in collectives Introduction Gender issues refer to economic, social, political and cultural attributes, constraints and opportunities associated with being man or woman. Collectives on the other hand refers to a group of entities of people who share or are motivated by at least one common issue, interest, work together to achieve a common objective. The issues of self-help, mutual responsibility, equality, equity are held in common by all objectives. Sociological definition of collectives stress qualities like extra-institutionalism, network character, multi-centeredness, fluid boundaries of collective membership and willingness of members to disrupt order (Grlach & Hine 2005). Women have made their own movements or have been part of mixed gender social movements because they are members of social classes; they are workers seeking expression, inclusion and redress form authority. In the formation of collectives, gender issues arise which when not well addressed can cause major setbacks to the different collectives formed due to numerous factors that arise in the society in many cases. Gender issues that arise in the collectives Gender stereotypes Women are the most disadvantaged when it comes to collectives. This lies in the stereotypes that people hold about men and women. Men are considered to posses more genetic qualities that reflect greater competence and instrumentality that the women. Specifically, men are considered...
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...Organizations Paper Throughout most of history, women have endured so much. They almost always had fewer legal rights and career opportunities. The main professions tied to women were wifehood and motherhood. According to "Women's History in America" (1995), “Women were long considered naturally weaker than men, squeamish, and unable to perform work requiring muscular or intellectual development.” The common stereotype was “a woman’s place is in the home.” Women went through the struggles of not being able to get an education, voice their opinions, not having the right to vote, and being viewed as property. Gladly, the role women play in the United States has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Despite the thoughts of men being stronger than women, “physiological tests now suggest that women have a greater tolerance for pain, and statistics reveal that women live longer and are more resistant to many diseases” ("Women's History in America", 1995). In 1969, women made up only about one-third of the workforce. Like it should have always been, now more and more women have taken on new responsibilities outside of home by joining the paid workforce and they make up almost half of all workers in the United States ("The State of Women In America", 2014). However, although women have made big advances in every field, they still endure discrimination. If both male and female work full time jobs, census reports show that to this day women still make 77¢ to a male’s dollar. With the...
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...Michelle Ludwig English 299 Shields 23 April 2009 Exploiting Women’s Bodies Have you ever really looked at an advertisement and realized how demeaning it is to women? Anyone who has ever turned on the television, whether to watch a program or just the news, has witnessed stereotypes. For example, the company Gucci has a very distasteful advertisement that places a woman at a man’s feet. What is Gucci really trying to say when they position women like that? It definitely makes a point of male dominancy and literally puts women down. Stereotypes have existed since the beginning of human kind and can be observed in every place where people interact with one another. Feminist movements have argued since the nineteenth century that stereotyping of gender roles is rampant in many aspects of our everyday world. The long term male dominance over women has been a main focal point in our society. Our world is focused on the fact that sex sells and advertisements sometimes use that to get the product noticed. Even some companies try to make advertisements more popular by putting a girl half naked on the cover. Advertisements can gender stereotype by exploiting women’s bodies, demining women’s intelligence and portraying women in roles that they are “supposed to carry out.” Everyone in the world was made differently for a reason, so why is our society trying so hard to make people think we should all be perfect? Not everyone is going to look like a model and there...
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