Essays on Gender Diversity

Stereotypes and culture play a significant role in how society perceives gender and non-heteronormative sexual orientations. This paper aims to explore how stereotypes influence societal mindsets and personal mindsets concerning gender. Also, it will evaluate the effectiveness of gender mainstreaming in tackling the adverse effects of these stereotypes. Finally, it will investigate how culture has...

Introduction to Gender, Sex, and Sexuality When Harry became born, his dad and mom, Steve and Barb, we’re overjoyed to add some other boy to their family. But as their baby boy started to develop and increase, they noticed that Harry began to explicit himself in a manner that they viewed as more female than...

It’s no surprise that the universe is a mass place that is unknown and still needing to be discovered and Australian production Boy Girl Wall showed just how mysterious the world can be. ‘This is not a love story, it is a story about love,’ (Boy Girl Wall, The Escapist, 2012) This is the opening...

Masculinity vs Femininity Over many years and decades, Australia has changed the view of both masculinity and femininity so that it is inclusive for everyone in the population. The terms masculinity and femininity respectively refer to traits and characteristics typically associated with being male or female. Both masculinity and femininity are present in the modern-day...

In the television show ‘Friends’, there are characters who adhere to gender stereotypes and roles as well as characters who break those stereotypes or develop away from them. In the episode ‘The One with the Male Nanny’, Rachel and Ross are seeking out a nanny to care for their daughter, Emma while they are working....

Men are expected to be masculine. Beloved by Toni Morrison describes the effects of slavery on bith genders and although it is mostly centered around its female characters it also shows a variety of masculinity and the road of understanding manhood. Beloved is a complex book that is written engangingly (White, 2011). It is natural...

Valorizing celibacy The renouncing of sexual life by young men is reified by other cultural beliefs regarding loss of strength by the falling of the seed. The valorization of brahmacharya (celibacy) is taken to incredible lengths in Hindu religion. Thus, religious texts are replete with statements like, “Brahmacharya is so powerful that by strictly following...

In 8th grade I had my own little crew I guess you could call it. Everyone in the neighborhood knew about our group because we would do everything together. If we didn’t do it together we didn’t do anything at all. There seemed to be about 30 of us in the group when in reality...

Ever since I was a child, I have loved playing with puppets. Call it being childish, but I truly enjoy playing with puppets, the feeling of having total control over their limp bodies gave me happiness unlike anything else, more than toys, games, books, or even having friends. I grew up watching the Muppets and...

The present study will investigate the effects of culture and gender on aggressive behaviors. The proposed study aims to extend prior research by focusing on both gender differences between males and females, as well as, cultural differences among individualistically and collectivistically reared participants. Research indicates that internalized cultural descriptions significantly influence an individual’s emphasis on...