Essays and Research Papers on Women's Studies (All)

A 5 page paper which examines the ways in which gender roles are developed and reinforced, focusing primarily on the home, classroom and the workplace. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

6 pages in length. This paper reviews three articles on the title subject and analyzes each article. There are people who use language that would be considered biased in use. The question that is raised is this: Is the language a cause of the bias or is the bias a cause of ...

This 5 page paper looks at the gender gap and argues that it is definitely present despite the advent of feminism and other changes to modern society. Implications for career are explored. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

An 8 page exploration of the roots and impacts of patriarchy as it currently exists in the workplace. The author reviews such manifestations as pay discrepancies and emphasizes that while approaches such as affirmative action have resulted in inroads towards bettering a woman's place in a ale-dominated world, only a change in mindset will ...

Female Students Are Not Getting the Academic Assistance that Male Students Get: In 5 pages the author discusses the issue of female students not getting the academic assistance that male students get. "The gender gap is alive and well at the end of the 20th century. Female students are not getting the ...

A 12 page paper. The gender pay gap in the UK is the widest of any country in the European Union. About 30 percent of managers and administrators in the country are women but they are concentrated at the lowest levels of management. Further, they are paid 24 percent less than male counterparts. This essay ...

This 7 page paper provides an overview of existing research studies on gender and negotiation. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

This 5 page paper explores the detrimental effects of stereotyping. The results, and how people cope, is also included. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 15 page research paper that examines the issues of gender in opera and specifically in regards to Bela Bartok's work Bluebeard's Castle. Bartok wrote but one opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, a short work based upon a grisly fairy tale. Psychologically and symbolically complex, the opera's narrative not only represents Bartok's conceptualization of gender, but ...

4 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses the ways in which culture has played an integral role in establishing gender laws. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

In seven pages, this paper examines the similarities and differences that exist in global (non-U.S.) cultures including Japan, India, the Middle East, and Africa (Ghana), making connections with those in the United States, and also examines the role the gender researcher plays in such analyses. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.

This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of cultural views on distribution of labor. Interviews with American and Chinese families reveal trends in the distribution of household labor. Bibliography lists 0 sources.

A 6 page paper that discusses gender bias against women in a male-dominated culture. Stereotypical behaviors are learned early in life and are perpetuated throughout life in media depictions of women. The comments of three feminist authors are integrated: Sandra Lee Bartky, Sandra Lipsitz Bem, and Catharine A. MacKinnon. The writer also addresses the ...

This 5 page reaction paper provides a response to an article called "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are Not Enough" by Fausto-Sterling. The idea that more than two genders actually exist is explored. The paper concludes by calling for a new, equitable paradigm. No additional sources are cited.

This 3 page paper discusses the factors of race, ethnicity, and class as they pertain to gender and the inequities in the workplace. Bibliography lists 0 sources.

6 pages in length. Susan Moller Okin, author of "Justice, Gender, and the Family," espouses to three distinct aspects of political space that deal with women and children: tradition, personal and property. Upon further examination, one finds that the author reconstructs the family as a means by which to increase political space in these ...

This 10 page paper considers how the issues of race and gender are dealt with in this black feminist book in a manner that is not confrontational nor is it openly critical. The paper considers the subtleties of the narrative and the contrasts drawn the give the message of the importance of race and gender ...

A 14 page discussion of the contention that gender differentiation in both the public and private spheres became increasing exaggerated during the Industrial Revolution. The author describes the clothing of the time by decade and concludes that gender distinctions in terms of fashion were indeed exaggerated. Women's fashions would be more accurately described ...

An 8 page paper discussing social changes that have facilitated business changes in terms of gender. It has been more than a generation since women's abilities have continued to separate from gender issues. Disparities still exist, but in far fewer number and severity than was the case in the mid-1960s. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

This 7 page paper explores the subject of transgenderism and the reasons why individuals choose this lifestyle. This paper concludes that transgenders have a high desire to be true to what they feel to be their unique gender identity. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 5 page paper examining the traditional gender roles presented in the classic fairy tales. Beginning from the observations of psychoanalyst Karen Horney and anthropologist Margaret Mead, the paper is mostly involved with the traditional view of the beautiful princess waiting for the rescue that will come in the person of the handsome prince. ...

This 7 page paper explores the vast differences that exist in these two countries in terms of gender equality. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

6 pages in length. Gender issues span a significant range of concerns based upon performance, intelligence and aptitude; however, the very fundamental components of such social struggle stem from whether nature or nurture commands greater credit and why. Patriarchy has long assumed that the male gender is, by nature, regarded as superior over ...

6 pages in length. Ghassan Hage's White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society, Naila Kabeer's "The Structure of Revealed Preference: Race, Community, and Female Labour Supply in the London Clothing Industry" and Harsha Walia's "Colonialism, Capitalism and the Making of the Apartheid System of Migration in Canada: Part II" all make ...

A 1 page definition of gender stereotypes and how these stereotypes evidence themselves in the workplace. Cautions that women throughout the centuries and across all geographic boundaries have been, and undoubtedly will continue to be, viewed as inferior to men and incapable of the same occupational accomplishments. Bibliography lists 1 source.