Sex Ed: The Science of Difference - A Textual Analysis In Steven Pinker’s “Sex Ed: The Science of Difference” he discuses the possible reasons of why there are more men than women in the workforce of science, engineering, and technology research. He refers to the recent Harvard President Lawrence Summers’s comment on how unbalanced gender numbers in the science field could possibly be caused by innate sex differences (Pinker 795). Summers discussed this possibility at a conference on gender imbalances and was quickly misinterpreted to say that women are inferior to men (795). Pinker aids Summers speech by explaining that men and women obviously think differently about several things. He supports this with three possible reasons of why this is true: the persistence of discrimination, gender disparities arising in the absence of discrimination, and child rearing (796).
Taylor et al (2000) proposed that this is the outcome of different pressures faced by men and women in the EEA. Much of the support for the evolutionary approach comes from historical records, experiments, observations, questionnaires, comparative studies and cross-cultural studies. A main criticism of the evolutionary approach is that it is based on speculation, in other words there is no conclusive evidence. Tzedakis et al 2007 argues the death of the Neanderthals may not in fact have been due to maladaptive divisions of labour but rather climate change in Europe around 30,000 BC. Evolutionary explanations help to explain sexual behaviours like promiscuity and choosiness but Sternglanz and Nash (1998) argue that promiscuity on the part of males holds no value in terms of reproductive success.
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.
These results are discouraging because they imply discrimination in the evaluation of school and job performance (Berscheid & Walster, 1972; Dipbaze, Fromkin, & Wilback, 1975) as well as in judgments concerning moral or legal transgressions (Dion, 1972; Sigall & Ostrove, 1975). Since this research suggests unfair treatment of people, it is important to examine in detail reports concerning this bias. The most often cited experiment on an attractiveness-induced halo effect was reported by Landy and Sigall (1974). 1A similar version of this article was presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, April 1976. Thanks are due to Jan Ault, Lynn
Women in the 1800’s were dominated by their husbands and expected to be submissive in every way. After Kate’s real life husband died, she decided to voice her opinion on this topic. Sometimes the rules and morals that society or religion teaches us, isn’t really what we want for our own lives. Especially when it comes to sex, romance or love there are a lot of different opinions. Certain cultures may teach that sex (of any form) before marriage is not wrong while others believe that our morals change as society allows it to.
The author also uses irony to add a bit of humor, and also emphasize judgment on men’s idea of the gender roles. “ I want a wife who will work and send me to school”. Hyperbole: The author creates an unrealistic image of the typical wife and exaggerates to make a point. “I want a wife who will go along when our family takes a vacation …rest and change of scene”. This is an exaggeration because even on her free time, the wife is portrayed as a slave to the husband.
Modern context in where social movement and increasing gender and equality threaten the traditional male dominance may be directed on those woman who challenge the power of a man and the status (e.g. career women), as well as towards women who are alleged as using their sexual appeal to gain power over men. However, sexual reproduction and the dependency and intimacy that man have on women and the domestic fulfillment of women. These roles create a dependency and intimacy between the two counterbalances the sexist hostility with a subjectively benevolent view of women. As per the 22-item ambivalent sexism Inventory (ASI; Glick & Fiske, 1996) initiated and validated in six
One-third of the African American women indicated they would be unable to handle the test emotionally, while only 12% of Caucasian women cited this as an important concern. More African American women were also concerned about the confidentiality of genetic test results, 72%, versus 45% of Caucasian women. African American women, women who were less educated, and women who were younger in age were more likely to have more positive beliefs about the benefits of genetic testing. In the final model, education accounted for 1% of the variance in perceived benefits of testing, age for 6%, and race for 4%. Though small, the variance in perceived benefits accounted for by race indicates that African American and Caucasian women have different notions about what genetic testing may mean for them psychologically and socially.
A woman working in the same job as a man will usually earn less, despite the fact that she may have the same or better training, education, and skills required for the job ("Study Shows Female Managers in Britain Earn Less than Men, and Equality Could Be 57 Years Away." 2010). Women are consistently discriminated against in the workplace. Women only make 60 percent or less than their male counterparts in the same job position (Louis, 2010). Throughout history men are seen as the “strong/tough ones”; the belief is that they should be paid more than women in order to support their families (Loney, 2005).
She doesn't believe that the 50's should be taken 'literally' because from the 50's there were changes in values that caused racism and sexism discrimination against women. Many of the existing social problems could have been avoided or ignored. Racial conflict was intense in many places, but many suburbs were exclusively white. The poverty rate was higher than today, but at least it was falling. Teenagers had more babies than they do now, but access to good jobs-even with only a high school education-enabled young men to marry their pregnant girlfriends.