In January 1991, thousands of women found themselves in a place no one thought they would ever be; in combat. Even though the women weren't in the traditional combat roles as infantry and armor, they were fighter pilots, military police, military intelligence and hundreds of other specialties ...

ABSTRACT This experiment is designed to test whether or not gender is a major contributing factor to the recovery heart rate in humans. Most would assume that the male heart rate would be considerably faster in recovery time than that of the female. This experiment furthers that assumption by elim...

Violence against women can be defined as any act of sexually or nonsexually oriented violence that results or is possible to result in physical, sexual and psychological trauma, irrespective of the environment it occurs. Every act of violence diminishes and destroys women's basic human rights a...

Is a woman stronger than a man? Under any circumstances, should men take orders from women? These questions have caused many conflicts between men and women throughout history and even today. Men often feel that women are inferior to them. Women often feel that they are quite equal to men and want ...

Christy Adair\'s \"Women and Dance\" addressed the subject of the influences of society on bodily behavior through dualism, \'the natural,\' \'the essential self,\' and \'the feminine.\' Claiming that institutions such as the family and education have illustrated such influences, Adair said that the...

My Summary of the article: Intersex The second article that I was to summarize is a different approach. It still deals with sexual situations. But the only difference is that you can actually be born with this problem, not something that you would have chosen. All of us were given a gender,...

The mass media in today's society is money driven, and it seems that they will go to any length to profit. The media's sex sells approach is of particular concern. The media controls the images being put out and does not care what the outcome is aside from the accounting numbers at the e...

Men and Women are Different The fact that men and women are different is well known. Some of these differences are constant and some are not; some have changed in the past and some are about to change in the future. While some physical differences are obvious, some of them are controversial; in ad...

Mothers, daughters, and wives dieing. Is that something you want to be hearing on the news? I didn't think so, this is what would be heard time and time again if we the United States let women go into combat situations. Women shouldn't be put into combat units or combat situations directly because o...

Is Their Justice in Sports? In sports, are both men and women treated equally? Although there were not as many sports for women years ago, now there are more sports in which women can compete. Currently, women are able to compete in as many sports in which men also compete. Although women are ...

Society's WallpaperThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an interpretation how women areoppressed by males in society. Gilman attempts to reveal this oppression through her use of maleimposed confinement. One woman's struggle with both mental and physical confinement,represents the g...

Ann Petry's Mrs. Hedges: A Challenger Appears from the Confines of Disabled Femininity Throughout The Street Ann Petry thematically examines the possibility of coexistence between the maintenance of personal virtue and morality with the achievement of the capitalistic successes of the America...

Masculinity is a topic that has been debated in our society very often. Many wonder what it means to be masculine, and if we can really assign a definition to such a one-sided term. Do individuals\' views determine what constitutes masculinity? Masculinity has certain characteristics assigned to it ...

A Doll's House In reading Ibsen's A Doll's House today, one may find it hard to imagine how daring it seemed at the time it was written one hundred years ago. Its theme, the emancipation of a woman, makes it seem almost contemporary. In Act I, there are many clues that hint at the kind of marriage N...

The value of our country\'s people that a woman\'s role as peacekeeper and our countries deep value of men protecting woman and children still remains today. Women are the support of the household and are supposed to keep the family together. However, what happens when the women, our mothers, sister...

It's common knowledge that the difference between young menand women is not purely physical. Guys and girls lead verydifferent lives, because the world interacts with each ofthe sexes uniquely. One argument is who has the advantageover the other in romantic situations. Some may say itdepends on the...

In our society today there are many discriminations the children of lesbian, bisexual, gay, or transgender persons face certain challenges such as they are often the subject of prejudice because of their sexual orientation. The children of lgbt parents face problems unique to their situation. The c...

The Role Of Women in "That 70's Show"The 1970's were a very powerful point in time for the women's movement throughout the United States. Females around the country were proving that they were physically and mentally equal to men and it was time people realized that. The women in portrayed in FOX'...

In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, the protagonist Celie is pulled into conflicting directions by two compelling obligations: to be under full control of an abusive husband or to be independent, assertive, self-reliant. At times, Celie vacillates, often remaining indecisive before making a life a...

Sports are an important part of the American society and an integral feature of everyday life. For centuries, sports were male dominated until recently. From professional sports teams, college, high school and even elementary age teams are fighting for equality in sports. Women's sports h...

David M. Buss, Ph.D.His main area of study has been human desires, what people want when they are looking for a husband or wife. To research this, he surveyed over ten thousand people in thirty-seven cultures on six continents. What his findings show is that men tend to choose mates more on physic...

Domestic Violence Women's Studies 210 Analytic Response #2 Domestic violence and sexual assault are two difficult things to define. I define domestic violence as any unwanted physical contact from a significant other. Significant other being boyfriend, girlfriend, sexual partner, or spouse. I define...

Great Expectations In the past years, expectations for each sex have been scripted into society and have come to a social and cultural acceptance. The same social flow would be apparent today if it were not for evolved altering and social transitions due to inevitable changes such as men and women ...

The submissive role that many women assume in marriage is a familiar controversy among most societies; a role so common that it is often expected of a female to live "under the thumb" of her husband. Why, with all of the advances in equal rights and the recent progression of female partic...

Female genital mutilation is a horrendous injustice that occurs everyday in this world. Female genital mutilation is wrong for several reasons. It is wrong because women can experience physical health consequences, psychological health consequences and it is a form of gender discrimination. In s...