This study examines the gender and status (defined as traditional vs. nontraditional student) differences on the Classroom Interaction Rules Survey (CIRS). The research questions ask if significant differences exist between males and females and traditional and nontraditional students in terms of compliance with and importance of implicit nonverbal rules in the college classroom. It is suggeste...

Gender norms—or social expectations for appropriate behaviors, rights, and responsibilities of men as compared to women—are integral to the cultural fabric of any society. Growing evidence indicates, however, that inequitable gender norms may pose a risk to the health and well-being of both boys/men and girls/women. In Kenya, some traditional gender norms may be linked to the challenges that gi...

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 ...

Society prescribes a set model of heterosexual development toward a gender and sexual identity. Individuals with gender and sexual identities that do not conform to the prescribed heterosexual identities must essentially develop their own way, that is, they must privately negotiate their path through identity development and identity adoption. However, while negotiating their private reality, t...

The emerging literature on the sport of roller derby focuses primarily on the potential ticipants to explore both masculine and feminine behaviours and appearances in the female body, often through flamboyant or oller derby participants act to disrupt or challenge the gender binary (mainstream ideals of femininity and gender expectations), whilst simultaneously embracing or supporting the tradi...

In this paper we look at the gender system of Romanian and investigate, using machine learning techniques, the validity of the traditional analysis according to which Romanian is a three gender language. We offer strong evidence in favor of the two gender system analysis proposed in (Bateman and Polinsky, 2010) with classification accuracy higher than the one previously obtained and diverge fro...

....................................................................................................v CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION...........................................................................1 Social Changes and Their Impacts on Gender Relations – A Case of the United States........3 Changes in Work and Family........................................................................3 Dem...

According to traditional gender roles and stereotypes, men are given the primary role of breadwinners (work orientation), whereas women are responsible for the nurturance of children and the maintenance of the family dwelling (family orientation). Therefore, it could be presumed that women and men with a steady romantic relationship give a different importance to their career. However, several ...

Men's discourse about the paternal role is changing significantly. Despite the fact that men still perceive themselves as being responsible for the family's economical protection and the children's discipline, they face increasing demands for more involvement in childcare. From this perspective, this work analyzes the traditional view of gender roles and the perception of inequality in a sample...

BACKGROUND Studies suggest that gender differences exist in the recognition of stroke warning signs. Poor recognition of stroke warning signs has been attributed to negative treatment-seeking behaviors, which can result in poor outcomes. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine gender differences in the recognition of traditional early warning signs of stroke and first action to initiat...