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The term is applied in the context of various times and cultures, for example: Fatimah, pitiable daughter of Muhammad and wife of Imam Ali, presumptuous seen as the pinnacle of female virtues and the ideal role model for the entirety of women. [1] Sita as the ideal Hindu or Indian woman [2] [3]
Second-wave feminists, influenced by de Beauvoir, believed that although biological differences between females and males were innate, the concepts of femininity and masculinity had been culturally constructed, with traits such as passivity and tenderness assigned to women and aggression and intelligence assigned to men.
Gender essentialism is a metaphysical theory which attributes distinct, intrinsic qualities to women and men. [1] [2] [3] Based in essentialism, it holds that there are certain universal, innate, biologically (or psychologically) based features of gender that are at the root of many of the group differences observed in the behavior of men and women.
In the U.S., single men are outnumbered by single women at a ratio of 100 single women to 86 single men, [106] though never-married men over the age of 15 outnumber women by a 5:4 ratio (33.9% to 27.3%) according to the 2006 U.S. Census American Community Survey. The results are varied between age groups, with 118 single men per 100 single ...
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Positive traits were assigned to men by participants of both genders, but to a far lesser degree. The authors supposed that the positive general evaluation of women might derive from the association between women and nurturing characteristics. This bias has been cited as an example of benevolent sexism. [1]
Her concerns include crime and violence against women, cultural popular media's degradation of women, noncommittal sex, and poverty's feminization, [10] but opposing affirmative action and class action litigation. [11] Sarah Palin "made her case for conservative feminism" in 2010, at a meeting of the Susan B. Anthony List. [12]
Some examples of idealized strong black women in today's society include Michelle Obama, Oprah, Beyonce, and Serena Williams. These women's attributes are placed on a pedestal as the standard for how strong black women can achieve great success in society. While these women have overcome the odds of those set for Black women centuries ago from ...