The current study investigates how descriptive and prescriptive gender norms that communicate work and family identities to be (in)compatible with gender identities limit or enhance young men and women's family and career aspirations. Results show that young adults (N = 445) perceived gender norms to assign greater compatibility between female and family identities and male and work identities ...

Background Some studies have revealed enzymatic and non-enzymatic roles of adenosine deaminase (ADA) in male reproductive system such as regulating adenylate cyclase activity by decreasing adenosine concentration, helping to interaction between prostasomes and spermatozoa. MaterialsAndMethods frequency distribution of ADA1 G22A alleles and genotypes in 200 fertile and 200 infertile men. The pol...

A heterosexual community can be analyzed as a marketplace in which men seek to acquire sex from women by offering other resources in exchange. Societies will therefore define gender roles as if women are sellers and men buyers of sex. Societies will endow female sexuality, but not male sexuality, with value (as in virginity, fidelity, chastity). The sexual activities of different couples are lo...

OBJECTIVES To assess the associations between gender roles and depression in older men and women and whether gender roles are independent risk factors for depression. METHODS International cross-sectional study of adults between 65 and 74 years old (n = 1,967). Depression was defined by a score of 16 or over in the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). A validated 12-item...

HEALTH ISSUE: Research has consistently shown that while women generally live longer than men, they report more illness and use of health care services (including medication). In the literature, the reasons for women's elevated medication use are not clear. This paper investigates the associations between over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription (Rx) medication use and selected social and demogr...

Brothels are restricted spaces for individuals who follow and praise the societal norms of morality. But these also give easy access to patriarchal society suppress women since they do not fit into so-called “respective” roles in society. usually viewed as men fulfill their desire sex, enhancing masculinistic peculiarities. Women always suppressed sexual acts derogatory subjects forced subjugat...

The research aimed to determine a representation of women in the poster Warkop DKI comedy film (Dono, Kasino, Indro) 1980-1989 from woman point view. involvement as models media was not yet clear terms their roles; however, could be used more commodities capitalism reap profits. In patriarchal rule, men were assumed created culture-making other subordinated. applied descriptive qualitative meth...

Facilitation of social attraction and bonding by the evolutionarily conserved neuropeptide oxytocin is well-established in female mammals. However, accumulating behavioral evidence suggests that oxytocin may have evolved sex-specific functional roles in the domain of human social cognition. A critical question is how oxytocin differentially modulates neural processing of social information in m...

Despite increasing interest in gender and health, 'lay' perceptions of gender differences in mortality have been neglected. Drawing on semi-structured interview data from 45 men and women in two age cohorts (born in the early 1950s and 1970s) in the UK, we investigated lay explanations for women's longer life expectancy. Our data suggest that respondents were aware of women's increased longevit...

There is limited research on the impact of HIV or its treatment on men's identity construction and gender roles in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on in-depth research with 26 men in rural Uganda, this article discusses men's vulnerabilities and shifting gender relations and sense of masculinity resulting from HIV infection or enrolment on treatment in eastern Uganda. The findings suggest two broad c...