Gender

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Gender

• Jarrod Johnson
• Cameron Schron
• Thomas Phaus
• Raina Keppler

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Gender

• History of Gender Roles
• Gender Sexuality
• Gender Equality
• Future of Gender Roles

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History of Gender Roles
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Just Some facts about males

• 1215 Men begin exchanging engagement rings
• 1862 Anti-Polygamy Act is passed it is now
  illegal to have more than one wife in the U.S.
• Alfred Kinseys Sexual Behavior in the Male
  reveals that 50 of husbands cheat on their wives

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• 3/5/1979 U.S. Supreme Court decides that men can
  get alimony too.
• 9/21/1996 Defense of Marriage Act decides to only
  recognize heterosexual marriages.

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Women begin to make a move

• 1848 Women and men sign the Declaration of
  Sentiments in hopes to destroy inequality among
  women, Seneca Falls, New York.
• 1920 19th Amendment is passed, women can now
  vote.
• 1963 Equal Pay Act is passed.
• 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act is passed.

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Women who Changed History

• Mae Jemison 1st African American Woman Astronaut

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Industrial Revolution-1950s

• Traditionally, women stayed at home to care for
  the children and take care of the house, while
  the men went off to work to make a living.
• Leave it to Beaver
• I Love Lucy

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Post Industrial Revolution

• More women begin to work outside of the home and
  two career families become more common.
• Children go to daycares
• Better family income
• Divorce rate increases
• Marriage occurs later in life

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Gender and Sexuality

• By Cameron Schron

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Sexual Behavior in the U.S.

• For centuries, sexual purity, or virginity, was
  the moral, religious, and social ideal
• Might be ideal, frequently not lived up to
• Several surveys have revealed that the majority
  of teenagers and young adults view sex before
  marriage as acceptable
• 90 of young adults are sexually experienced
• College students 74-88 men 69-88 women are
  sexually experienced
• Most have had several partners
• Other trends
• Waiting to get married
• Having sex at a younger age

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Sexual Identity

• Heterosexual
• Homosexual
• Bisexual
• Sigmund Freud (1905/1953)
• Polymorphously perverse all infants are capable
  of erotic attraction to anyone or anything.
• Oedipus or Electra complex

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Sexual Identity Cont.

• Heterosexual Having erotic and romantic feelings
  for people of the opposite sex
• Homosexual Having erotic and romantic feelings
  for members of the same sex
• Bisexual Feeling erotic and romantic desires for
  both sexes

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National Heath and Social Life Study (1994)

• Men
• Exclusively Heterosexual 85.0
• Exclusively Homosexual 2.4
• Bisexual 3.9

• Women
• Exclusively Heterosexual 95.6
• Exclusively Homosexual 0.3
• Bisexual 4.1

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Sexual Identity Themes

• 1.) Same-sex behavior crosses age, education,
  race, economic status, employment, occupation,
  religion, and political affiliation.
• 2.) on average 5 of adult American men and 3
  of women regularly engage in same-sex activity
• 3.) Same-sex desires and behaviors are more
  prevalent in men then women

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Sexual Identity Themes Cont.

• 4.) a number of adults are attracted to both
  sexes
• 5.) identifying oneself as heterosexual does not
  mean that same-sex desires and behavior is absent

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Study Flaws

• Discrepancies between sexual identity and sexual
  desires and behaviors result from social
  pressures and the stigma attached to
  homosexuality
• How would you categorize a woman who has been in
  a heterosexual marriage for many years, loves her
  husband, has three children, and experences
  strong sexual fantaises about woman?
• Or a gay man who on occasion has sex with a
  female friend whom he loves?

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Gender Equality

• "Gender equality means that women and men have
  equal conditions for realizing their full human
  rights and potential to contribute to national
  political, economic, social and cultural
  development and benefit equally from the results.
  Equality is essential for human development and
  peace.?Attaining gender equality demands a
  recognition that current social, economic,
  cultural, and political systems are gendered
  that women's unequal status is systemic that
  this pattern is further affected by race,
  ethnicity and disability and that it is
  necessary to incorporate women's specificity,
  priorities and values into all major social
  institutions.
• -Status of Women Canada

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Gender Equality in the Workplace

• Wage Gap
• Workforce
• Violence
• Unions

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Gender Equality in Sports

• Statistics
• Title IX
• Advancements

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Gender Equality in the Military

• Non-Combat
• Combat

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The Future of Gender Roles

• Stay-at-home parents (Census Bureau)
• 5.4 million women
• 98,000 men
• Gender and higher education
• Ages 25 to 34 with a college degree
• 33 of women
• 29 of men

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The Future of Gender Roles

• First female president
• What will the First Gentlemen do?
• ABCs Commander in Chief