Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-321).

Thundershowers, an original novella, represents one person's perception of relationships between women and men. The first-person narrator, Anna Slone, records her limited observations of married and unmarried couples while she pursues her own involvement with a man. She observes nothing admirable in any of the relationships between men and women in the story, and her own romance falls short of her expectations. The only nurturing love that she records passes between herself and two other women, her mother and a friend. Thundershowers is not meant to be a suggestion that all woman-man relationships are soulless or that real love can exist only between women. Set in a Colorado resort, the action focuses on several concurrent love-interests, including a faltering marriage, a traditional marriage, the engagement of two young lovers, a lighthearted sexual affair, and the short-lived but painful romance of Anna and a man whom she meets at the resort.

Final thesis is about changing role of men and women in a culture. It describes three roles of women in a advertisement.

My PhD research explores the role of men's subjective accounts of interactions with the women they date, especially with reference to whether they experience women to have power in dating relationships. It comprises a qualitative analysis of the responses gained from semi-structured interviews conducted with 20 British men and 10 Pick Up Artists (men who attended classes to learn how to increase their confidence when dating women) all aged 21-40. Current debates around gendered power are largely focused on female subjectivities, and are core to political and theoretical differences between second and third-wave/post-feminisms. I argue that in order to understand the workings of (heterosexual) gendered power relations, we must pay attention not only to issues of structural power but also to men's perceptions of the lived experiences of such relationships. At a time of increased uncertainty about gendered identity and increased pressure to see the ‘self' as a project, such perceptions may be both very varied and at variance with accepted structural analyses of gendered power. Following three introductory chapters in which I trace the debates around masculinity and a contemporary social order focused on risk and individuality, I analyse the interviewees' responses in order to explore how the men position themselves within the gender and dating discourses that are available to them. The effects of what Ulrich Beck described as ‘individualism' and the use of ‘constructed certitude' are explored, as is how the men deal with conflicting ideas borne out of living in an age when ideals from both hegemonic and inclusive masculinities co-exist. Whether men acknowledge their own insecurities or whether they focus on perceived external triggers, such as female culpability, and whether men respond to insecurities by focusing on an active process of overcoming them (thus remaining inside hegemonic ideas), is also a focus. Subject areas explored include the role of homosocial behaviour in dating, the gendered dating process, the power of female beauty, men's bodily anxieties, media representations of dating, men's body image, unwanted pregnancies and female aggression. I conclude that we cannot dismiss men's perceptions of female power in dating as mistaken, as has been argued. If men's realities include such perceptions, then their un/willingness to relinquish 'more' power needs to be understood if equality between the sexes is to be increased.

This thesis is aimed to explore the development of ¡§equal rights for men and women.¡¨Relevant issues including ¡§population¡¨¡B¡§education¡¨¡B¡§labor force participation rate¡¨and¡§political participation,¡¨have been explored and analyzed to find out about the impact brought about by the campaigns of ¡§equal rights for men and women.¡¨This thesis is a longitudinal study. It used the way of the social indicator and implemented human resource reports published by the Directorate-General of Budget ,Accounting and Statistics Executive Yuan, Council of the labor Affairs Executive Yuan, Ministry of Civil Service, Department of Statistics, Statistics Department of Interior . This paper shows that ¡]1¡^Life Expectancy , the ratio of women receiving higher education and women's ¡§labor force participation rate¡¨and ¡§political participation,¡¨have increased annually during the past few decades ;¡]2¡^women's status has been improved yet the problem of gender inequality needs to be dealt with . Suggestions on women's population ,education , labor force participation and political participation are made for promoting gender equality.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-77).

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This study/essay is engaged in display of men and women in advertisement, common stereotypes, symbolism, genders. Slightly describing essential theory and knowledge of this problem in the first chapter. The aim of this dissertation is analysis and evaluation of results acquired by electronic interviews on the topic of displaying men and women in advertisement and also summarized content analysis of tv commercials in light of picturing/portraying men and women in advertisement.

This thesis describes the development status of women in society in a historical context from the Middle Ages until the 20th century. It acquaints us with the rights to which women in the 19th and 20th centuries were acquired. This work also deals with current issues of women in entering the labor market, and describes the forms of discrimination that women face. The theoretical part is also elaborated the topic of how perceptions of mass media on gender issues. The practical part deals with public opinion on gender issues and compares the results of data collected from the People newspaper in 2005 and 2012. Applying this methodological tool was a questionnaire and content analysis.

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