Gender+Roles

Gender Roles

History Students: Discuss gender roles of the 1950s, referencing ads/propaganda/consumerism and reasons why. Psych Students: Discuss gender roles/theories, Left/Right brain differences of men & women (if any).

Hey ya'll im victaria im in psych 2nd period with mrs.cavanaugh so here is some information i have found so far. so hope it helps: i basically just took out important things ->men have more gray matter (6.5 times) in their brains, and women have more white matter (10 times). -> Gray matter is the raw processing material of the brain, and white matter connects the processing centers ->men’s brains have a little more horsepower, women’s brains are better connected. ->men can focus better on tasks that require raw manipulation of data, and women are better at pulling information for multiple sources and synthesizing it. ->Much of the processing women do is in the frontal lobes. ->Men’s processing is distributed throughout more of the brain. ->almost all our language processing happens on the left side of our brain. We have bundles of fibers connecting our left and right hemispheres. Women appear to have more left-right connections than men, and when their brains work on a problem, their brains are more symmetrical in processing activity as well. With men, fMRI scans have shown that the processing generally happens on only one side of the brain but women engage both sides of their brain on a problem. At the risk of oversimplification, it appears that women engage more of their brains when they think. Men tend to restrict thinking to the task at hand. Women take a more holistic approach to mental processing.

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//Gender Role// is also that standard of how a person with a given gender identity is supposed to behave including the traditional behaviors that society expects of people male and female

-Many of these traits were considered appropriate for the different sexes; though in todays society we have a broader view of whats appropriate behavior for males and females
 * Ex**: Traditionally men in the United States viewed as dominate, competitive, and emotionally reserved; women were viewed as submissive, cooperative, and emotionally responsive

//anthropologists// have found that some studies reverse the roles that ameicans traditionally give the men and women where some assigned roles differently "masculine" and "feminine"

-Gender roles can vary from society to society, gender role is what gives gender identity its social meaning gender roles can also change quickly through societies

//Hi im OSHAY from Mrs. Cavanaugh 1st period and this is what i have came up with.//


 * Gender Differences in Personality**

Studies have found that besides the obvious physical differences, differences between male and female do exist. One study (Mednick & Thomas, 1993) found that males are more confident than females, especially in academic areas or in tasks stereotyped as "masculine," such as math and science. Aggresion is of the areas with the most significant differences between genders.

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 * Gender Differences in Intelligence**

Most studies show significant difference in the average IQ for men and women. Men's IQ is 2-5 % more than the average female. [1] However, on average men perform better on tests of spatial and mathematical ability, while women perform better on tests of verbal ability and memory[citation needed]. Also, men's IQ has greater variance, that is, there are more men than women in the very high and very low IQ groups, with women's scores more concentrated around the average.

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 * Gender Differences in Social Conversation**

Men tend to talk more than women in public situations, but women tend to talk more than men at home.

Females are more inclined to face each other and make eye contact when talking, while males are more likely to look away from each other.

Girls and women tend to talk at length about one topic, but boys and men tend to jump from topic to topic.

When listening, women make more noises such as “mm-hmm” and “uh-huh”, while men are more likely to listen silently. Women are inclined to express agreement and support, while men are more inclined to debate.

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This graph shows that of our polled group, males were much more likely to have been arrested than females. Our statistical analysis shows that there is a significant difference in the percentage of male to female arrests, so we have rejected the null hypothesis.This graph shows that of our select group of Miami students, males were much more likely to have been involved in a fight. The statistical analysis shows that there is a significant difference between the percentage of male and female involvement in fights, and that the null hypothesis is rejected.

//These graphs show that males are more aggresive than females are most likely to get into a fight// OSHAY! http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/humannature00/FinalArticles/TheNatureofHumanAggressio.html

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/Images/fonegend.jpg oshay! so how do you want to split this project up victaria?

•WWII was over -Men came home -Younger women stayed home to care for new families -New family era •U.S. economy experienced period of rapid expansion •Production increased •Higher standard of living •More married women entered workforce from the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s there was tremendous pressure on women to accept their more traditional roles as wives and mothers, dependent on their husbands, and committed to living their lives for their families, children, and husbands.
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