Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of GirlsPhysical Activity and Sport are a large part of societies everyday life. Some people take part in physical activity for many different reasons, such as, health benefits, employment, elite athletes, or pure enjoyment. According to the Surgeon General's R...

Abstract The differences in gender and initiating intentional physical contact during communication were investigated. Fifty college-age dyads who engaged in conversation were observed between 30 and 60 seconds to see which gender instigated physical contact with a person of the same or opposite g...

Physical violence is more of an issue in a male institution. Males find themselves harassed by other inmates. It is also a problem in women's institutions but just not as much. Women are more physically abused by the guards that are suppose to be there to protect them.Psychological victimization ...

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...

The male and female body shapes are physically different, therefore clothing for each gender has to be tailored to fit these variations. Women\'s clothing generally incorporates more darts to accommodate the bust and hips, while men\'s clothing has a more rectangular shape to cover their less curva...

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 ...

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN TERMS OF LEISURE Introduction: There are many approaches to defining leisure. Many languages, such as German, Spanish, and Japanese, have no equivalent term. Most languages have some concept of "free time". In general use, "leisure is what we do for fun". ...

Kimberly Jose HUM 101 Section 32 12th of November, 2001 The Balance between Women and Men Men and women have always had their differences, but do those make their lives easier compared to the other? Women have the evident disadvantages and heinous events and activities, how...

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...

There is literally and epidemic which has spread around the world over the past thirty years or so. This is a health problem, both physical and mental, that isn't caused by an elusive bacteria or a yet unnamed virus. This health problem is caused by greed. The corporate greed of big business...

Masculinity is a topic that has been debated in our society extensively, through research as well as in informal settings. Many wonder what it means to be masculine, and if we can really assign a definition to such a term. After all, shouldn't ones own perception determine what is masculine. This wo...

Infantrywomen Throughout the history of our great country women have played a vital role in the defense of this country. Women have served and continue to serve this country in many different ways. During the World Wars women served in the Women Army Corp (WAC) here in the states and overse...

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...