workforce‚ a controversial issue has been whether women have progressed in society or do they still face the glass ceiling by enduring wage discrimination. On the one hand‚ some argue that women have come a long way. From the perspective of Christina Hoff Sommers‚ American Enterprise Institute scholar and author of Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today‚ American women know that they’ve succeeded and feminism was a thing of the past. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue
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THIS IS NOT MY PAPER!! A War Against Boys? By Michael Kimmel By now‚ you’ve probably heard there’s a "war against boys" in America. The latest heavily-hyped right-wing fusillade against feminism‚ led by Christina Hoff Sommers’s new book of that title‚ claims that men are now the second sex and that boys--not girls--are the ones who are in serious trouble‚ the "victims" of "misguided" feminist efforts to protect and promote girls’ development. At the same time‚ best-selling books by therapists
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Christina Hoff Sommers thinks that schools should teach moral values while Joel Turtel believes that schools in America are not teaching moral education correctly. Turtel’s opinion on the moral education programmes and what they are turning young generations to is very extreme. Though I disagree with Turtel that teaching young people that “a value is good if it ‘works’ for a particular child at a particular time” is not the best solution and that this will cause children to be “turned into amoral
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were thirty-five points (out of 800) ahead of females in math and seven points ahead in English." (C. Sommers 382). Although male’s scores are relatively high in these areas‚ males often do not complete the training through secondary education for lack of interest. "Sons rush through homework assignments and run outside to play‚ unconcerned about how the teacher will regard the sloppy work." (C. Sommers 381). As the male species grows into maturity the theory is instilled in his mind. Males rush through
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order for the president-elect to provide new jobs in education‚ healthcare‚ etc. “At the same time‚ more than 1‚000 feminist historians signed an open letter urging Obama not to favor a “heavily male-dominated field” like construction‚” says Christina Hoff Sommers. Women tended to blame Obama a lot in this article due to the sole fact that he was only targeting men for jobs in his new
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In the early 1900 ’s‚ women were not known to have high rank jobs or work full time at all. They were the one ’s who did all the cleaning‚ cooking‚ and the ones who took care of the children. Women didn ’t really start having jobs that paid till the 1920 ’s - 1930 ’s. But until then‚ the men did the majority of the work out in society. In a play called‚ Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell‚ which was written and took place in 1916‚ two women by the names of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters lived in a small town where
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Cited: Augustine‚ Saint. "Virtue and the Human Soul." Vice and Virtue In Everyday Life. Comp. Christina Hoff Sommers and Fred Sommers. Belmont‚ CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning‚ 2010. Print.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education. November 22‚ 2009. Gurian‚ Michael. (1997) The Wonder of Boys. New York‚ NY: Penguin Putnam Inc. Pollack‚ W. (1998). Real boys: Rescuing our sons from the myths of boyhood. New York‚ NY: Random House‚ Inc. Sommers‚ Christina. (2001). The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men. New York‚ NY: Touchstone.
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threatening the schools with expensive lawsuits and investigations. The author spends much of the article discrediting the claims made by the ACLU‚ saying “race and sex are different‚ as the Supreme Court has emphasized and as most everyone recognizes” (Sommers‚ 1). Although I do not agree with the extremity of the arguments made by the ACLU‚ I believe there are strengths in their reasoning. There are two major critiques made by the ACLU regarding single-sex education. The first argument is that “there is
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determines the development. In any area involving gender however‚ this debate is still strong. In the War Against Boys: How misguided feminism is harming our young men‚ Christina Hoff Sommers points out that some feminists still support the nurture side of the debate without acknowledging any possibility of a biological influence. Sommers insists on examining the growing number of studies indicating that gender differences are not all socialized but are biological sex differences‚ just as differences
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