Essays Tagged: "female students"
Gender Bias in Math and Engineering, What is being done?
As a woman, mother, and, future teacher, I am worried about the future of young girls. Female students consistantly score lower then boys on standardized tests and take fewer advanced mat ... ntentional on the part of the parents or teachers. A guidance counselor who does not protest when a female student wants to drop Algebra, is not necessarily attempting to discriminate. However, if he ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Which gender does better on a first year level of college?
AbstractThe purpose of the present study was to analyze and observe the academic performance among females and males. Student's grades were investigated in this experiment to determine which gender p ... ychology 100. The scores from the tests were calculated to obtain the overall averages of males and females to distinguish which gender performed better academically. Averages were determined among ma ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
This paper is about anorexia in teenage girls discusses the problems
is referred to in medical terminology, is an extreme eating disorder that predominantly affects the female gender, and in particular affects girls and women most often during their teenage and early a ... t years. In one recent study, it was found that up to one percent of all adolescent and college age female students suffer from some degree of anorexia nervosa. In many of those cases, it was noted th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Evaluate the claim that recent changes within schools are the main factors responsible for high female attainment.
that the pictures of experiments were always being conducted by males who were often supported by a female assistant. This was problematic as the sciences were already viewed as very masculine subject ... enforced to eradicate such negative sub conscious messages in order to encourage and cater for the female student. These policies in theory would have raised female motivation and also given them the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Nurture has a lot To Do with Gender Roles We Play
science at the University of British Columbia, she redesigned programs and increased the number of female students who study in computer science by 20 per cent (43 44). This example illustrates that ... enced by parental control but they are also influenced by school education. Teachers treat male and female students differently in classrooms and it will shape different gender roles. In China, studie ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Indiana Jones: Hero Extraordinaire
known as Professor Jones; he teaches archeology at a college, and practically the whole class is of female students who overwhelm the handsome teacher with questions that they supposedly cannot figure ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Women's Movement In the 1960's (Presentation Script)
pay and fewer promotions than men. They uncovered barriers to women seeking political office and to female students striving for high academic achievement. This feminist movement rejected all limits t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History
Effects of social pressure on
essure on academic performance of entering freshmen. Ninety undergraduate students (45 males and 45 females) were randomly assigned to three equal groups. Students of the first group experienced posit ... bers in a group, the more likely they are to be successful. She also suggested that the presence of female students in a male dominated law school tend to affect their achievements. She also claimed t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
So your called a bitch
are negative ones and furthermore are geared towards woman. There are more swear words directed to females than males. For instance, words like tramp, slut, whore, these all categorise woman to be pr ... cuous. Another example that I will focus on is the word bitch.The definition of the word bitch is a female dog, thus suggesting that a female dog barks and that being called bitch means you always wan ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Sexual Harassment
e boys" when it should be receiving more attention since a 2000 study in Ontario showed that 80% of female students had been sexually harassed at school.Another form of sexual harassment that is often ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
THE STATUS OF WOMEN
nd fewer promotions than men. They also uncovered barriers to women seeking political office and to female students striving for high academic achievements.Informal women's liberation groups, which we ... iving for high academic achievements.Informal women's liberation groups, which were first formed by female students active in the civil rights movement and in radical political organizations emphasize ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Gender Roles
arding state merit scholarships; the New York State Education Department was discriminating against female students who competed for the awards. Since, female students tend to have lower scores on the ... am bases its awards solely on the results of a test. The plaintiffs argued that this process denies female students a fair opportunity to demonstrate their eligibility for the awards. The court agreed ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
EggSploitation
or family medical issues. $50,000" (Demand Media Inc.). I can only imagine eyebrows being raised as female students, on all five campuses, read this ad. The first report of egg donation in the United ... at the money they were paid to be egg donors was used to offset their college loans.The fact that a female is enrolled in college might demonstrate that she has intelligence or the ability to juggle a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Perception of College
of applied science will be the degree to seek. After visiting Northwest Community College in Desoto female students seem to be the majority on campus. Northwest has different programs to meet the comm ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Exercise Physiology
were done, Bod Pod, VO2 max, and Wingate power test. 6 students participated in the Bod Pod. The 3 female students had an average body fat percentage of 26% while the males had an average body fat of ... metabolic consumption.This metabolic consumption was measured in part two of the lab. A male and a female volunteered to take a part in a VO2 max test. This tested an individual's maximum ability to ...
Subjects: Science Essays