Alexis Allen and Dr. Shane Reese, Statistics Women have made vast advancements in the workplace within the last thirty years, but gender career issues still exist today. The field of communications presents an interesting case study about discrepancies between male and female employees’ contrasting earnings and career roles. A phenomenon called the Glass Ceiling Effect […]
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The Effects of Gender on Human Event-Related Potentials
Kimberly Hales and Dr. Scott C. Steffensen, Psychology Specific components of the human averaged visual evoked potential (VEP) are task-related. As observers scan a visual scene, they use two main types of visual object search: parallel and serial (Luck and Hillyard 1994). Parallel processing is where the object seems to “pop-out” to the observer, while […]
FINDING A SEX-LINKED MARKER IN OSTRICHES USING RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA (RAPD) TECHNIQUES FOR GENDER DETERMINATION
Chris Shaw and Dr. Robert Park, Zoology In recent years, ostriches have been used more frequently by ranches to fill the market demand for low fat meat, exotic leather and different oils for lubrication. As the numbers of ostriches have increased, the demand for a reliable way to determine the gender of young ostriches has […]
SIMILARITY AND CONTIGUITY OF FORM AND MEANING: A PARADIGM OF GRAMMATICAL GENDER CHANGE IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES
Eve A. Ross and Dr. Cynthia L. Hallen, Linguistics Gender in language is currently a hot topic in linguistics and related fields. One somewhat neglected branch of this subject is grammatical gender. Grammatical gender refers to the gender of a word that does not correspond to the gender of the real world object the word […]
Religion and Gender in the Impact of Parental Mediation on Self-censorship and Attitudes toward Mediation
Christopher Layton and David Hansen ABSTRACT This article reports the results of a three sample follow-up quantitative study involving 588 participants. Those sampled were students of three institutions of higher education, namely: Brigham Young University, Illinois State University and Texas Christian University. The three samples involved three different religious and non-religious affiliated institutions to evaluate […]
Gender and Law: the Incorporation of Gender into Austrian Political and Legal Systems
Sarah Kemeny and Dr. Cindy Brewer, Germanic and Slavic Languages Rosa Mayreder, Auguste Fickert, and Marie Lang’s publication of “Dokumente der Frauen” and the General Women’s Organization of Austria organization influenced and shaped Austrian political and legal identity for women in Austria. Auguste Fickert (1855-1910), Rosa Mayreder (1858-1938), and Marie Lang (1858-1934) were founders of […]
Race and Gender in Southwest Africa: A Study of German Colonial Women Writers
Amanda J. Anderson and Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Kelling, German and Slavic Languages Overlooked historically, women’s colonial literature has helped shape perspectives on race, gender and power. Male and female colonists alike carried glorious imperialistic fantasies, which can be found in the literature of the time. Specifically, German colonialism occurred much later than all other nations and […]
Discussing Gender Equality in an Unequal Environment: Misrepresentations of Life by Tamilian Women
Evan Carpenter and Dr. Julie Hartley, Anthropology In May through September of 2005 I shot a documentary film about social progress for women in a village just outside the city of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. The original purpose was to learn how the social and domestic roles of a family are affected by a […]
The Use of 13C/12C and 15N/14N Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis To Determine Carnivory Level in Gender Identified Free-Ranging Utah American Black Bears (Ursus americanus)
Eric Olson and Professor Beverly Roeder, Integrative Biology Stable isotope analysis of carbon (13C/12C or 13C) and nitrogen (15N/14N or 15N) has been shown to provide a more accurate estimate of overall diet in various mammalian species (Sponheimer et al. 2003). This technique was used to determine the amount of vegetation and animal protein in the nutritional […]
Gender and the Poetics of Conversation
Cassie Keller and Dr. William Eggington, English Language Department Abstract This research extended the findings of Neal Norrick and Deborah Tannen in examining the poetical elements of conversation and gender differences in discourse. Related research suggests that the “poeticity” of conversational language among and between sexes has not been analyzed (Norrick). This project was conducted […]
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