There are a lot of gender differences in patterns of crime, from which gender commit more crime to which crimes each gender commits more of. In this essay I will be giving explanations on why this different patterns in crime for gender happen. Men have a higher crime rate than women but the gap in this crime rate is slowly closing in recent years. Some Sociobiologists have the explanation that it is biological for the reason women are less likely to commit crimes than men. They argue that women have a more natural desire to be caring and this does not correspond to the values of crime, so they are less likely to offend due to them not having the nature to commit the crime.
Women have always been thought of as the weaker sex and Sociologists such as Heidensohn argue that men see the need to protect women. Police are more likely to caution a woman for shop lifting than they are a man. Flood-Page et al found that one in eleven female offenders had been cautioned and prosecuted in comparison to one in seven males. Women are also less likely to be prosecuted for an offence and found guilty of offences by juries. This is because women (especially when they have children) are seen first and foremost in the expressive role (mothering and caring).
Women as a result of their backgrounds and concerns have a harder time doing time than men do. There are not as many riots and attacks in women’s prisons as there are in men’s. Perhaps a better way to classify prisoners is group them according to needs. Some prisoners have families and some do not. Some prisoners are loners others are drug users.
The conversational rituals common among women are often ways of “maintaining an appearance of equality, taking into account the effort of the exchange on the other person, using up effort to downplay the speaker’s authority so they can get the job done without flexing their muscles in an obvious way.” Women use conversational strategies to avoid appearing conceited and take another person’s feelings into account. They may seem less confident and competent than they really are. Both us men and women feel often that they aren’t getting enough credit for what they have done, not being listened to, and aren’t getting ahead as fast as they should. Every individual has his or her own style. “Women are more likely to downplay their certainty and learned as they were growing up that sounding too sure of themselves will make them unpopular.
“…boys are expected to use language to seize center stage: by exhibiting their skill, displaying their knowledge, and challenging and resisting challenges” (Tannen 315). By picking and choosing their words through verbal sparring with each other they begin to gain status. As everyone knows, men are aggressive and rough with each other, but there’s a reason for that we know now. Women are less aggressive and forthcoming towards each other than men are. They would rather sit and talk and be quiet, versus loud and obnoxious.
The normal characteristics that relate to femininity are softness and tenderness, prompting society to perceive a delusional falsehood that women are weak, unable to defend themselves. In a normal world it is accepted that muscular capabilities of men and beauty regimes of woman are not prone to change because these traits are usually inborn and/or developed. This avenue of thought is simply untrue. Experience has shown society that females can often match the male when it comes to living with and understanding pressure; men have fallen short when it comes to dealing with more pressure than their female counterparts. Gender roles continue to change as this is how individuals develop over a given period of time.
Parents tend to spend less time reading with their sons, and the mother is usually the reader which makes boys think that reading is feminine. Boys tend to form anti-school subcultures, which means they adopt the norms and values of traditional masculinity. Messing around helps their status within the group. Francis says that
Gender Development, Gender Roles, and Gender Identity Once or maybe even twice we have all gone through this step in life known to many of us, as the sex talk. It doesn’t matter if one is a female or a male, our family members have always been there to inform us and pass on the knowledge of when it would be the appropriate time and how should things go when practicing safe sex. This is one of the many messages I remember my mom and my aunt giving me as I was growing up, even though it was sometimes uncomfortable to talk about sex with them because they were of the opposite sex I knew that there was nothing to be ashamed of because they were my family. Another message that my mom and aunt gave me while I was growing up has to be about how the male body had to go through puberty and the many changes that were going to happen in that stage of ones life. It sometimes became kind of uncomfortable to talk about the topic of puberty with my mom and aunt since it was two different sexes, I never had a male role model so talking to them became very easy not that uncomfortable anymore as I got older.
The way a person acts and communicates will depend on who is around and how they are acting, meaning different people bring out different attitudes and responses. I want to research and understand these different reactions based on one’s gender and the people that are around. Thesis Statement Sentence: The changes mean that same sex interaction differs for both men and women; it also changes when they interact with each other. Introduction Paragraph: Majority of classrooms tend to set men up for success rather than women according to a study done by Deborah Tannen. This may come as a shock since it is easy to assume girls pay attention more, and therefore participate more in school.
In very few instances, say projects covering solely the supply of materials and equip¬ment, can projects adopt a non-gender-differen¬tiated procedure. Gender Imbalance in Project Management Recruitment Though more women are now getting involved, project management it is still dominated by men. Is this because of sexist attitudes of recruiters, or is it because of some other reasons? Female Project Managers, who had established themselves in project management in spite of their gender sometimes express real feelings of intimidation as part of their early experiences when they stepped into this predominantly male discipline.