Articles related to "Gender Inequality"

A discussion of how gender violence is contributing to the current AIDS pandemic.

Sexy TV dads are nurturing, flexible, suportive, collaborative and intelligent. Could this indicate a paradigm shift in fatherhood?

Sandra Bem defines institutionalized androcentrism as a society's tendency to view women in relation to, or as extensions of, men.

In an attempt to eliminate inequality between the sexes, some parents and teachers actively discourage traditional gender identification in young children.

Are women innately ill suited to scientific inquiry? Harvard's last President thinks so. What do others say?

Explore various issues acounting for the growing numbers of HIV Positive women. Gender inequality in treatment and prevention is addressed.

This article explores the connection between ideas of change, and activism.

A series of stories written for children provides a glimpse into the educational goals of the 1950s and early 1960s as they relate to social and cultural norms.

Being female, even in today's more enlightened society, has its drawbacks, one of which is less likelihood of career success.

Women are equally well-educated and high-achieving as men until they become mothers and the main responsibility for raising children creates a gender gap.

Today marks the 99th anniversary of International Women's Day. In Wales, a recent report suggests in some major areas gender equality may be moving back in time.

This article looks at the impact of postmodernism on 2nd wave feminism.

The women's rights' movement is often misunderstood as an angry protest towards men and the family. It is time to go back to the most basic principal of what feminism is.

In the ongoing discussion of the AIDS pandemic in Africa, the role of culture is almost always, without fail, mentioned.

A look at some of the moments in Extreme Sports that had people talking in 2006.

Piglet is a timid and anxious little creature, but he embodies more than first meets the eye........

Celebrity involvement in humanitarian affairs comes with its drawbacks, which can ultimately be a step backwards in the struggle to curb AIDS.

Although, biologically, AIDS does not discriminate the reality is that some communities have been hit harder by this pandemic.

Ellen Simonetti is internationally known as the flight attendant fired for blogging. Her debut novel mirrors her personal blogging journey but with a twist.

In both Virginia and Massachusetts, the genders were viewed unequally. The Puritans viewed men and women more as partners, while the Virginians viewed women as property.

In Valerie Martin's tale of 19th Century plantation life in America's deep South, the narrator, an unhappily married plantation owner's wife, tells her own story.

in the face of the challenges we face in our world today, we need a new breed of leaders with uncommon passion and bold vision to lead change and drive progress

In Sweeney Todd the real villain isn't the "Demon Barber of Fleet Street" - it's the injustice of class inequality.

Artificial Hymen Kits, Hymenoplasties and other attempts at "restoring" virginity are considered life-savers by some and repressive by others.

There has always been a separation of men and women in the workforce. Every race and culture has its own dynamics. Here, Latino men and women are the focus.

The stereotype of promiscuous Africans continues to rear its head and undermine constructive solutions to the AIDS pandemic.

Sexism is the true "barberism" of the movie Sweeney Todd - the inability for the male characters to relate to women as equals dooms everyone.

Does calling them "problem plays" simply allow us to ignore the parts of Shakespeare we find uncomfortable to modern taste?

Stephen Lewis shows why he is a formidable force in the world of HIV/AIDS.

The Women's Rights Movement was instrumental in bringing rights to all women of America. What tends to be forgotten are the other women who fought in their own way.

Liliane Bettencourt, Christy & Alice Walton, Abigail Johnson, and Jacqueline Mars inherited fortunes that put them high on Forbes' Billionaires List.

From the U.S. to Senegal, Italy to Japan, Cuba to Australia and all of the various locales in between, hip hop has become a worldwide phenomenon.

When thinking about religiously inspired violence, its occurence within religious traditions is often forgotten.

Patricia Pearson's meticulously researched book, When She Was Bad, asserts that women's capacity for violence is similar to that of men.

Some members of the deaf and dwarf communities want to pass on these characteristics to their offspring. This development is compared to other forms of community identity

Patriarchy affects women, ethnic and minority groups in Nepal in all forms of public and private life. The legal system is one of the biggest barriers for women's rights.

With millions of teenagers following Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series and loving every minute of it, is the message the series narrator sends positive?

The fight for gender equality is not an exclusively women's issue, because no one is truly free when the other half of the world's population is oppressed.