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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Gender Science

The Gender Science test was a scrabble for me personally since i associated the science a much more masculine then feminine and arts a more a mixture of the both genders
So the test was strange like the beginning the instructions to locate my fingers onto a certain key in order to answer the questions with two to four separate groups.
For the Gender Science it was separated for science, liberal arts, female and male gender roles are suppose to be separated to the category where they belong. I found it strange how the mixed the categories around and insist i answer the questions as quickly as possible.
My Results of the Test.






My test result explained that i have little to no association
 between Female and Make with either liberal arts and 
science. Meaning, is that i believe that a category for
 a job has nothing to do with gender-roles and should 
be aimed for each gender. I believe their is certain jobs the
 are mainly targeted for men and women alike. For example 
construction workers, usually the workers are men 
 and swimsuit models are usually women; The employer 
had a choice between a women and a man to be
 construction workers the employer would choose 
the man for the job and probably base this on the
 fact that the man is a man and the employer
 predicted that the men are stronger then women. 
But even if those jobs are that way, there are jobs split
 equally between men a women and it shouldn't matter
 as to why a role has to fall for a job that's predetermined 
for them because of their gender.

During class, a couch for the football team walked into
 our Spanish 2 classroom looking for students to help 
out with lifting some textbooks and lots of hands were 
raised to volunteer for the job and all of the students
 that were chosen was a boy and i seen a few girls hands
 were raised but weren't chosen. Is it because the meaning
 of looking for volunteers were the disguise of looking for 
boys to help? Why couldn't any of the girls help
 out too, they are very capable as much as any of the
 boys. Maybe his mindset was the fact he thought that
 the boys were more capable in picking up 
more textbooks then the girls were.

I think the category should of been lengthen more boarder 
and the text more simply since i got confused since they 
switch a category from one key to another after i gotten 
used to the set key is the first place
Gender - Science. This IAT often reveals a relative link between liberal arts and females and between science and males.

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