Gender and Society: A Matter of Nature or Nurture? "Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them." --Margaret Mead In addition to age, gender is one of the universal dimensions on which status differences are based. Unlike sex, which is a biological concept, gender is a social construct specifying the socially and culturally prescribed roles that men and women are to follow. According to Gerda Lerner in The Creation of Patriarchy, gender is the "costume, a mask, a straitjacket in which men and women dance their unequal dance" (p.238).
The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet Here are the most useful websites on the Internet that will make you smarter, increase productivity and help you learn new skills. These incredibly useful websites solve at least one problem really well. And they all have cool URLs that are easy to memorize thus saving you a trip to Google. Also see: The Best Android Apps ABC News 'I'm Scottish': Gutted Lambie to quit Senate in latest citizenship shock Jacqui Lambie broke down in a radio interview this morning as she confirmed she will resign from the Senate because she holds British citizenship, telling listeners she always thought she was "Australian as they bloody come". How your MP will vote if Australia says Yes to same-sex marriage We've asked every federal politician what they intend to do if same-sex marriage gets to a vote in Parliament. On the numbers we've gathered, both houses would pass a bill to change the law.
Revealed: The incredible attention to detail on TV's most stylish period drama Mad Men By Polly Dunbar Updated: 00:27 GMT, 26 September 2010 Its razor-sharp scripts and fascinating characters are compelling enough, but for most Mad Men fans it’s the incredibly authentic re-creation of the dazzling style and glamour of the early Sixties that puts the show in a league of its own. Producers of the drama about the hard-drinking and philandering advertising executives of New York’s Madison Avenue – currently being shown on BBC4 – do not overlook a single detail in their dedication to accuracy, with a team of set designers painstakingly trawling antique shops for vintage props to meet creator Matthew Weiner’s exacting demands. Seeking perfection: A stagehand attends to a minor prop detail as actresses January Jones and Kiernan Shipka (Betty and Sally Draper) prepare for a scene Prop master Ellen Freund, who has worked on Mad Men for the past two series, says: ‘We don’t get the script until five days before shooting each episode, so we have to hit the ground running.
Masculinities To speak of masculinities is to speak about gender relations. Masculinities are not equivalent to men; they concern the position of men in a gender order. They can be defined as the patterns of practice by which people (both men and women, though predominantly men) engage that position. Functionalism (philosophy of mind) Since mental states are identified by a functional role, they are said to be realized on multiple levels; in other words, they are able to be manifested in various systems, even perhaps computers, so long as the system performs the appropriate functions. While computers are physical devices with electronic substrate that perform computations on inputs to give outputs, so brains are physical devices with neural substrate that perform computations on inputs which produce behaviors. An important part of some accounts of functionalism is the idea of multiple realizability. Since, according to standard functionalist theories, mental states are the corresponding functional role, mental states can be sufficiently explained without taking into account the underlying physical medium (e.g. the brain, neurons, etc.) that realizes such states; one need only take into account the higher-level functions in the cognitive system. Mental state M is the state that is preconceived by P and causes Q.
Functionalism Functionalism is a theory about the nature of mental states. According to functionalism, mental states are identified by what they do rather than by what they are made of. This can be understood by thinking about artifacts like mousetraps and keys. In particular, the original motivation for functionalism comes from the helpful comparison of minds with computers. But that is only an analogy. The main arguments for functionalism depend on showing that it is superior to its primary competitors: identity theory and behaviorism.
9 Depressing Facts From the Latest Women in Media Report Women are inching towards media equality, but it’s slow going. That’s what we learned from the Women’s Media Center’s annual report on the status of women in TV, news, movies, and even social media. Some things are unsurprising, like the fact that women are vastly underrepresented in sports journalism. Other things are more interesting, like the fact that the Melissa Harris-Perry Show has more diversity than all the other Sunday political talk shows combined. The highest-paid female movie star, Angelina Jolie, makes about the same per movie as the two lowest-paid male stars, Denzel Washington and Liam Neeson. Her $33 million paycheck is dwarfed by the $75 million Robert Downey Jr. rakes in as the highest-paid movie star for the Iron Man movies.
inequalityprojects - Gender Inequality in the Media Gender Inequality in the Media:Athletic Coverage in the Media: Media coverage of sports relies on a multitude of factors to enable the sports industry to be effective in America. Gender inequality within this media coverage depends on many things; corporate power, the economy, and the passion of the sports fan. dd in the viewpoints of male and female athletes, and the layers of ideologies structure this controversy into what sports media has become soda oh yeah.Corporate Power Corporate America, in association with the sports industry, team up to make sports the sixth largest industry in the United States, with about $213-214 billion dollars invested in the industry each year (Kian, Mondello, Vincent, 2009). The spectacle of sports gives corporations a very profitable way to make a buck and create dynamic media coverage that is shown all over the world. Gender Stereotyping in Televised Media Sport Coverage Gender Stereotyping in Televised Commercials
Gender Equality in the Media: The New Social Movement Artwork by Jessica Bishop; Infographics by Erin Ford “The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one,” says Patricia Mitchell, the former president and CEO of PBS [4]. By the age of 10, a young girl will watch an average of 31 hours of television a week [1] and join other women around the country in comprising 52% of the movie-going population [5]. Have We Achieved Gender Equality In The Media? 2013 was a great year for women in the Walkleys. The Newcastle Herald’s Joanne McCarthy deservedly won the top award, the Gold Walkley, for her portfolio of 350 stories on child abuse that helped trigger a Royal Commission. She also won the Melbourne Press Club award for Journalist of the Year in 2012. Women won Walkleys for best cartoonist, best press photographer, best non-fiction book, best interview, best long-form feature, best indigenous affairs reporting, best radio documentary, best sports story, best all media commentary. Women shared in eight other awards.
Family Matters - Issue 93 - Greater gender equality There remain persistent gender differences in economic outcomes throughout the world. In 2010 the OECD Gender Initiative was launched to examine existing barriers to gender equality in education, employment, and entrepreneurship (the "three Es") across Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. In fact, the OECD Gender Initiative was developed as an integral part of a wider policy imperative for new sources of economic growth, and it argues the economic case for achieving gender equality through a more efficient use of everyone's skills in terms of education and economic participation (OECD, 2012a; 2012b).