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Gender is cultural-based and varies in a thousand subtle ways across the many diverse cultures of the world. Gender has been shaped by political, religious, philosophical, linguistic, traditional and other cultural forces for many years.
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Gender is culturally-based and varies in a thousand subtle ways across the many diverse cultures of the world. Gender has been shaped by social norms, politics, religion, philosophy, language, tradition and other cultural forces for many years.
Gender is culturally-based and varies in a thousand subtle ways across the many diverse cultures of the world. Gender has been shaped by political, religious, philosophical, linguistic, traditional, and other cultural forces for many years.
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- What Is The Difference Between Sex and Gender?
- Debunking Myths About Women
- Gender Roles as A Social Force
- Death from Cultural and Social Oppression
- Sexual and Other Forms of Slavery
- Maternal Deaths
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Rape and Sexual Abuse
- Wage Disparity
- No/Low Education For Females
By far, sex and gender has been one of the most socially significant social factors in the history of the world and the United States. Sex is one's biological classification as male or female and is set into motion at the moment the sperm fertilizes the egg. Sex can be precisely defined at the genetic level with XX being female and XY being male. B...
In Table 1 you saw how females carry the lion's share of the biological reproduction of the human race. Since history assumed that women were impaired because of their reproductive roles (men were not), societies have defined much of these reproductive traits as hindrances to activities. I found an old home health guide at an antique store in Ohio ...
One can better understand the historical oppression of women by considering three social factors throughout the world's history: religion, tradition, and labor-based economic supply and demand. In almost all of the world's major religions (Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and many others), very clear distinctions have been made abo...
Some cultural traditions are so harsh that females are biologically trumped by males -- by withholding nutrition, abandoning wife and daughters, abuse, neglect, violence, refugee status, diseases, and complications of childbirth unsupported by the government. If you study this subject online looking at the Population Reference Bureau's many links a...
One of the most repugnant traditions in our world has been and is the sale of children/women into sexual and other forms of slavery. A non-profit organization funded by the Walk Free Foundation has recently provided a 2013 annual report on all forms of slavery, highlighting sexual slavery as one of many forms SOURCE. Countless civilizations that ar...
Although pregnancy is not a disease, it carries with it many health risks when governments fail to provide resources to expecting mothers before, during, and after delivery of their babies. Maternal Death is the death of a pregnant or recently delivered woman resulting from pregnancy, delivery, or recovery complications. Maternal deaths number in t...
Female Genital Mutilation is the traditional cutting, circumcision, and removal of most or all external genitalia of women for the end result of closing off some or part of the vagina until such time that the woman is married and cut open. Another WHO 2020 report stated that more than 200 million girls and women have been cut in 30 countries in Afr...
With very few exceptions, the world's histories have recorded the pattern of sexually abusing boys, girls, and women. Slavery, conquest of war, kidnapping, assault, and other circumstances are the context of these violent practices. The website www.rainn.org is a tremendous resource for knowledge and information especially about rape, assault, ince...
Wage disparity between males and females is both traditional and labor-based economic supply and demand. Statistics show past and current discrepancies, always with lower pay for women. Diane White, in a 1997 presentation to the United Nations General Assembly, stated that "Today the wage disparity gap costs American women $250,000 over the course ...
Efforts to provide formal education to females worldwide have escalated over the last few decades. In 2017, the WorldBank reported that about 130 million girls ages 6-17 will never enter a formal classroom ( See “Girls Education” 25 Sep. 2017 retrieved 10 July 2020 from SOURCE). There is also an in-depth report about efforts to cease the marriage o...
Gender is culturally-based and varies in a thousand subtle ways across the many diverse cultures of the world. Gender has been shaped by political, religious, philosophical, language, tradition and other cultural forces for many years.
Sep 20, 2020 · “...if one gives sufficient social power to a class of people holding even the most outlandish ideas, they will, consciously or not, eventually contrive to produce a world organized in such a way that living in it will, in a thousand subtle ways, reinforce the impression that those ideas are self-evidently true.”
