Substantive Post #1 The article titled, “Abortion Incidence and Service Availability In the United States, 2014” examines the rate of abortion in the US by state and discusses some potential causes for increases or decreases in that rate since previous studies. This article notes that abortion has steadily declined since abortion was legalized in … Read more
Substantive Blog #1 (Research for final paper) One of the main challenges that societies face in the reconstruction stage after long years of armed conflict is to integrate the gender perspective in the design of public policy. This is important because in most conflicts inequality and violence against women intensify and therefore, in order to … Read more
Substantive Blog Post #1 (Research for Final Paper) I have decided to write my paper on discrimination in the workplace. I not only want to focus on gender, but also racial discrimination. I read an article last Spring that has left an everlasting imprint in my mind towards racial discrimination. In this article the researcher conducted … Read more
For my research project, I will be focusing on human trafficking in Asia. Human trafficking is a human rights violation and one of the biggest transnational crimes. While human trafficking occurs all over the world and in different forms (sex trafficking, labor trafficking, organ trafficking), Asia has particularly high numbers of human trafficking. This topic … Read more
After watching the documentary Forbidden: Gay and Undocumented and reading portions of the Pathways of Desire text for class, of particular interest to me was understanding why gay men migrate to other countries. As I was looking into this topic I stumbled across this article, which details the fleeing of two men from Russia due … Read more
Based on an article published by the BBC, PepsiCo has hinted at launching a new line of chips that would be more suitable for women to snack on. These chips would be able to “fit in a handbag” and reduce “how loudly the crisps crunch when eaten.” Later in the article, the company has stated “‘don’t … Read more
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/naomi-parker-fraley-dead-rosie-the-riveter-dies-died-age-96-tulsa-oklahoma-second-world-war-poster-a8174876.html As Facebook and all news articles were in a frenzy January 20th, 2018, the believed face behind the Rosie the Riveter, Naomi Parker Fraley, died at 96 years old. It is in these moments that we reflect on their life and the events and actions that led to her becoming an inspiration to women … Read more
With discussion of gender roles, perceptions, and inequalities trauma is bound to be a part of the conversation. Even in our discussion of Nisa, the Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, trauma of weaning experienced by young children was a topic of conversation. Although a gender-neutral trauma found among !Kung children, it illustrates the … Read more
https://www.thenation.com/article/ten-things-end-rape-culture/ I was recently reading an article published in The Nation, titled Ten Things to End Rape Culture. I agreed with everything the article mentions yet I believe that it was missing what I believe is the most important factor to ending rape culture; that is a change of name. Culture from an anthropological definition … Read more
https://www.dailywire.com/news/26478/grammys-show-metoo-might-be-about-stopping-abuse-ben-shapiro# Harriett Martineau was one of the founders of sociology who, along with a host of other women, has unfortunately been written out of the established canon. She argued that one of the sociologist’s roles is to identify and explain inconsistencies between a society’s morals (values) and manners (patterns of actions) – essentially assessing whether … Read more