Zulma
We shape our culture’s views of men and women. Our cultures usually reflect our response to gender issues. This is why some people react to gay marriage because while they were growing up this was taboo in their society. Therefore, our generation faces a lot of challenges, and we need more time to frame the issues of our era and grow awareness of how the interaction of communication, gender, and culture privileges help some people and oppress others. The new generation will decide how to respond to social practices that produce differences in the quality of life and opportunities available to various groups in our culture.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
reply to Anjum
Anjum
Some times culture and stereotypes affect our choices of career. Women, known as the caregivers, they nurture their kids and are always willing to sacrifice for the sake of their family. They always put family first it is their decisions to pick a job where they are around their children all the time. In my case both my husband and I were working in NY and it was, my decision to quite my job and go back to school to be a certified teacher because I concluded that if I did not do that my husband would not do it. Because his culture has an impact on him that woman are the ones who take care of the house. However, I just meet a couple in my daughter’s school and I found out that the father is staying home and he is the one in charge of picking and dropping the kids and the wife is the professional. So now a day our society is changing, because a lot of men and women are exchanging roles at home.
Some times culture and stereotypes affect our choices of career. Women, known as the caregivers, they nurture their kids and are always willing to sacrifice for the sake of their family. They always put family first it is their decisions to pick a job where they are around their children all the time. In my case both my husband and I were working in NY and it was, my decision to quite my job and go back to school to be a certified teacher because I concluded that if I did not do that my husband would not do it. Because his culture has an impact on him that woman are the ones who take care of the house. However, I just meet a couple in my daughter’s school and I found out that the father is staying home and he is the one in charge of picking and dropping the kids and the wife is the professional. So now a day our society is changing, because a lot of men and women are exchanging roles at home.
assigment 6
Few days ago, one of my 15 years old students approach me telling me that yesterday she went with her friend to have an abortion. In addition, she said that the clinic did not require her parent’s consent, while when she went to have tattoo on her arm, she was asked for her parent’s consent. I was surprised that for a minor to have an abortion without her parent’s consent is allowed to have an abortion in this country especially with the harmful side effects. As soon as I got home, I did some research about the topic and I found out that there are many states who request that minors must have parental approval for most types of medical procedures. In the United States, some states have Parental Involvement Laws. This law requires one of two types of parental involvement. Overall, parental involvement laws reduce the number of teenage abortions. Because some of pregnant minors might be pressured into having an abortion by an older boyfriend, to conceal the fact that he is guilty of statutory rape, and to avoid that parents should be notified. In addition, the parents of the minor are financially responsible for any complications resulting from the abortion. Notification and consent laws give parents a chance to counsel their teenage daughters about the possible consequences of abortion.
The moral and legal aspects of abortion are subject to intense social debate in many parts of the world. Aspects of this debate can include the public health impact of unsafe or illegal abortion as well as legal abortion's effect upon crime rates. Current laws pertaining to abortion are diverse. Religious, moral, and cultural sensibilities continue to influence abortion laws throughout the world. The right to life, the right to liberty, the right to security of person, and the right to reproductive health are major issues of human rights that are sometimes used as justification for the existence or absence of laws controlling abortion.
The moral and legal aspects of abortion are subject to intense social debate in many parts of the world. Aspects of this debate can include the public health impact of unsafe or illegal abortion as well as legal abortion's effect upon crime rates. Current laws pertaining to abortion are diverse. Religious, moral, and cultural sensibilities continue to influence abortion laws throughout the world. The right to life, the right to liberty, the right to security of person, and the right to reproductive health are major issues of human rights that are sometimes used as justification for the existence or absence of laws controlling abortion.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
relpy to shonte
You are right Shonte, the number of women who work outside there home and have children is increasing. Mothers today, have either to work outside of home for financial support or to be equals with men. Today, most men and women work outside their home, few people can afford nannies or maids. In this case, the responsibility of taking care of the home and family are not easily met .so the mother is the one who have to sacrificed her job and take care of her home in this case the women career have to suffer more than the men do. Some women do not want to quite work and stay home to raise their children which is their choice but when I had my children, it was my decision to stay home with them the first two years. However, the problem I face it is I could not find a job right a way .but for me it is worth it to be with my child. In addition, if I stay at work I will feel so guilty that I am banding my child. The rate of women that have to work is increasing because of the increasing rates of divorce, causing mothers/women to have to go to work in order to support themselves or their child. Even so, many women go to work even if they are married because some households need two incomes in order to support their families.
assigment 5
In the United States, women and men have relatively equal access to educational opportunities. Both males and females come across gender expectations and pressures in school from kindergarten through college. In the past women were discouraged from advanced studies because many believed that if women got a good education, it might “unsex” women. The only field that was proper for women was either a nurse or teacher. These two professions present women as caring, loving mothers.
Now a day, females achieve better at all levels of education and earn more and higher degrees than men do. Despite that, not all barriers have vanished. Women still face few barriers because of cultural stereotypes of femininity. “Many studies show that women score lower than males on math and science.” (192). These studies think that females are less able than men in math and science. From my life examples, we are eight girls in my household and none of us wanted to enter the math and science field because the stereotypes in my cultures that woman do not perform well in those fields. Males are more likely than females to be encouraged to pursue careers in math and science, where as females are to be encouraged to enter careers that involve more direct interaction with people. In today school, young women tend to exceed in advance studies in high schools around the country. For example in my son’s AP science class, he have four boys and twenty girls. That shows us that more and more females are gaining further educational success.
Now a day, females achieve better at all levels of education and earn more and higher degrees than men do. Despite that, not all barriers have vanished. Women still face few barriers because of cultural stereotypes of femininity. “Many studies show that women score lower than males on math and science.” (192). These studies think that females are less able than men in math and science. From my life examples, we are eight girls in my household and none of us wanted to enter the math and science field because the stereotypes in my cultures that woman do not perform well in those fields. Males are more likely than females to be encouraged to pursue careers in math and science, where as females are to be encouraged to enter careers that involve more direct interaction with people. In today school, young women tend to exceed in advance studies in high schools around the country. For example in my son’s AP science class, he have four boys and twenty girls. That shows us that more and more females are gaining further educational success.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
reply to assignment 4
Hi Zulma
You are right, there are many children, who need good homes to offer them love and care. During my work in school, I meet many kids who are being raised by their Grand parents or aunts and uncles. Because their biologically parents left them or could not provide them with the basic needs and stability.
The Topical family used to be mother and a father but nowadays family structure change with the high rate of divorce and same sex relationship, we see single mother and single father raising children in their own and provide them with love and care they need. Because of these changes in our family structure who is to say who should or should not be a lowed to adopt if the fit the requirement to raise a child.
You are right, there are many children, who need good homes to offer them love and care. During my work in school, I meet many kids who are being raised by their Grand parents or aunts and uncles. Because their biologically parents left them or could not provide them with the basic needs and stability.
The Topical family used to be mother and a father but nowadays family structure change with the high rate of divorce and same sex relationship, we see single mother and single father raising children in their own and provide them with love and care they need. Because of these changes in our family structure who is to say who should or should not be a lowed to adopt if the fit the requirement to raise a child.
assignment 4
As I was reading chapter 10, I read about the number of mothers with children, who they have difficult time to work outside of their home and keep their jobs. The stereotype of women as a mother has a literal form. Women employees who have or plan to have children are often perceived as less serious professionals than men or women who are not mothers. My previous job in the Untied Nation my employer asked me in my interview how soon I was planning to have children. I said in couple of years, after that I asked why he has to ask such a question, he said we don’t prefer women who have children, because they take many days off when their children are sick or have school activity and that will effect the work and her performance. In addition, mother focuses more on mothering than working. Therefore, it is illegal to stereotype women in work places as mothers or to act toward them in ways that reflect the belief that work and motherhood are incompatible. The assumption that serious careers and full time job reflects social relationship of previous eras in which men were professionals and had stay at home wives to care for the home and children. Today, most women and men work outside of the home, which make it difficult to start families and raise children. When they start families usually, the women’s job is the one that has to suffer not the man’s. When couples decide to have children both of them have to share the responsibility of taking care of those children.
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