CFD 3240 Lecture 16: cognitive theory
14 Jan 2019
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Gender roles in american minority groups: african american women, female role contains a variety of characteristics that reflect the difficult challenge that black women have faced historically which include (hooks, 1981; Terrelonge, 1989: self-reliance, assertiveness, perseverance, black adolescent girls tend to have higher self-esteem and are less concerned with physical appearance than white girls (basow & rubin, 1999; vasquez & fuentes, Black men adopt extreme characteristics of the male role in order to declare their masculinity in spite of the discrimination they experience (stevenson, 2004) The bell curve: looking at math and gender: even when gender difference exist between males and females the portion of the two bell curves that overlap is much greater than the portion that is distinctive to either gender. In countries outside the west, adolescent girls have much less in the way of educational and occupational opportunities.
