"Percentage of Women in Government, Fact Sheet on Women in Government." UN News Center.
UN, 1996. Web. 17 Nov. 2012.
"World Population by Age and Sex." United States Census Bureau. N.p., 2000. Web. 17
I am going to talk about both of these websites together since they are both closely related. The first website gives data regarding women in government all around the world. It shows the percentage of women in different countries governments and also breaks it down into different government positions.
The second website gives facts about how many women and how many men exist on our planet. The first website was from 1996 so I found the earliest census data from the U.S. Census Bureau website which was in 2000. Because of this time difference there will be some error in the numbers but I feel that I can argue in my paper that women's representation in government does not reflect their population size.
Both of these websites are very credible due to the fact that one of them is a U.S. government (.gov) website and the other is the official United Nations website.
Berryman, Kristy, Rachael Power, and Sarah Hollitt. "Gender Role Development."
Socializatioin within the Family. Flinders University, n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2012.
This article will help illustrate our societies predetermined social roles because it gives a chart that lays out masculine and feminine behavior. It also tries to refute these stereotypes.
I feel that this will be a good source to use because it also talks about gender role development and how gender is shapes us throughout our lives in different places like at home and at school.
This website is credible because it is from a University website, but it is also an Australian University so it does not directly relate to gender roles in the U.S. which is what I'm trying to portray in my essay. The website also has a tacky feel but that may just be due to the fact that it is an old website.
The quality of writing in this website makes it seem like it is for a more scholarly audience than the website makes it appear. I like that they discuss how our gender roles are just socially constructed which will help give support to my thesis.
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