Although the notion of gender has a biological meaning, concept refers to social construction that emerges from basis. This includes cultural definitions masculinity and femininity are more appropriate for life. In definition distinction roles in life construction, discussion public private sphere is seen. Textbooks have an important place as dominant discourse tool debate. Therefore, textbooks...

Gender roles, in the context of present study, specifically refers to traditionally accepted roles patriarchal societies wherein women’s subordination their male counterparts is amplified. The study incorporates ideas feminist theorists, and particular, Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex where she explores paradigm gender provides theoretical foundation upon which primary text Bodily Harm will be ...

the purpose of this article is to investigate the differences between men and women’s painting regardless of being limited to presuppositions about masculine and feminine art. therefore, first the appearance of differences between men and women art during the eighteenth and nineteenth century is considered. having done that, various types of women’s painting, feminine painting and feminism pain...

Two hundred and twenty-six heterosexual participants (115 women and 111 men) were asked to indicate their attitude toward gender-roles, their perceived similarities with gay men, and their attitude toward gay men (i.e., sexual prejudice). As expected, male participants showed more sexual prejudice than female participants, and perceived dissimilarities were related to a greater sexual prejudice...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this integrative literature review was to explore factors that are related to sexual practices among Latino adolescents and identify which of those factors are common across successful sexually transmitted infection (STI)/HIV intervention programs for Latino adolescents. DESIGN An integrative literature review was conducted. Search terms included Latino, Hispanic, edu...

The purpose of this study is to investigate how educational use of Rwandan children’s literature, mainly fairy tales, can challenge traditional gender roles in Rwandan education. Indeed, researchers in and authors of children’s literature argue that the manner in which gender is represented in children’s literature impacts children’s attitudes and perceptions of gender-appropriate behaviour in ...

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status gender attitudes predict cognitive noncognitive skills. We find steep attitude gradients both skills, bigger effect sizes for (SES) gradients. Our results suggest...