Women's Pages or People's Pages: The Production of News for Women in the Washington Post in the 1950S

1996 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 364-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-Ling Yang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Process ◽  
Sexual Segregation ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Gender Beliefs ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
And Gender

The current debate over whether special newspaper sections for women should be revived is not without a history. The study examines the women's pages of the Washington Post in the 1950s that were edited by Marie Sauer. Although the Post is credited with initiating the change from traditional women's pages toward today's unisex lifestyle sections in 1969, it turned down a similar proposal by Sauer in 1952. Focusing on the Post's internal decision process to maintain sexual segregation of news, this study analyzes how women's pages were shaped by factors such as advertising, professional values, and gender beliefs.

scholarly journals Paediatricians’ attitudes and beliefs towards transgender people: a cross-sectional survey in Israel

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. e031569
Author(s):  
Nitsan Landau ◽  
Uri Hamiel ◽  
Itay Tokatly Latzer ◽  
Elinor Mauda ◽  
Noah Levek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Gender Beliefs ◽  
Human Value ◽  
And Gender

ObjectiveThe number of transgender and gender non-conforming children is on the rise. For these children, the timing of medical intervention is crucial, yet transgender children report poorer overall physical and mental health outcomes compared with their cisgender peers. We aim to describe how paediatricians perceive transgender people.SettingThe ‘Transgender Attitudes and Beliefs Scale’, which consists of 29 items in three domains—human value, interpersonal comfort and sex/gender beliefs—was administered to 391 senior and resident paediatricians in Israel. The responses on a 7-point Likert scale were collapsed into two categories: a mean score of ≥6 for each domain was a ‘Favourable’ perception and <6 ‘Unfavourable’.ResultsOf 355 respondents (91% response rate), 221 (62%) were females, 132 (37%) were males and 2 identified as ‘other’; 290 (82%) were born in ‘trans-respect countries’, 274 (77%) identified as secular, 223 (63%) were senior physicians and 132 (27%) were residents. Overall, 90% of the cohort scored favourably on the ‘Human value’ domain, 68% on ‘Interpersonal comfort’ and 40% on ‘Sex/gender beliefs’. In the ‘Interpersonal comfort’ domain, being a man, birthplace in a transphobic country, identification as religious and being a senior physician were all associated with increased ORs for an unfavourable score: 2.1 (95% CI 1.3 to 3.4), 3.4 (95% CI 1.9 to 6.3), 2.4 (95% CI 1.4 to 4.2) and 1.8 (95% CI 1.1 to 3.0), respectively. In the ‘Sex/gender beliefs’ domain, being a man and identifying as religious had significantly increased ORs for unfavourable scores: 2.2 (95% CI 1.3 to 3.5) and 10.6 (95% CI 4.7 to 24.1), respectively.ConclusionsNegative attitudes towards transgender people are still widespread among paediatricians. Interventions are warranted to positively impact these attitudes.

The Corrections-Commercial Complex

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Robert Lilly ◽  
Paul Knepper
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Parking Garage ◽  
Private Interests

The current debate about corrections' privatization neglects the extensive overlap of business, political, and private interests that shapes public corrections policy. Based on current developments in the United States it is possible to identify a corrections-commercial complex. As Deep Throat reportedly said to Washington Post writer Bob Woodward in an underground parking garage after he and Carl Bernstein uncovered the Committee for the Re-election of the President's secret fund in 1972: “Follow the money.”

scholarly journals Acquiring Gender in Melanesia: Homosexuality and its Relationship to Maleness

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Richard Goulden
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Homosexual ◽  
North Americans ◽  
Gender Beliefs ◽  
Social Sanctions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Categories

It is readily apparent that many Melanesian societies maintain a distance between men and women. Some ethnographers working in Melanesia have posited reasons for this dichotomy, for example, fear of contamination from menstrual blood, or the importance of male solidarity in social organization. These theories do not adequately explain gender concepts and the range of social interaction between the sexes. By focussing on the belief surrounding male homosexual behaviour in initiation ritual, this paper attempts to demonstrate that gender concepts in Melanesia, like attitudes towards homosexuality, cannot be explained in terms of Western categorizations of male and female, or in terms of Western concepts of sexuality. A comparison of the correlation between homosexuality and gender beliefs among North Americans and among Melanesians indicates that the apparent separation of the sexes in Melanesia is not due to the inherent distinctness of male versus female, as reflected in the Western dichotomies that colour such ethnographic descriptions of gender. It is suggested that in Melanesian societies men must be differentiated from women, and that mutable gender categories must be maintained by social sanctions that delineate the sexes during the reproductive years.

Patrolling the Boundaries of Gender: Beliefs, Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Trans and Gender Diverse People in Portuguese Adolescents

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-56
Author(s):  
María Victoria Carrera-Fernández ◽  
Ana Almeida ◽  
Xosé Manuel Cid-Fernández ◽  
Pablo Vallejo-Medina ◽  
Yolanda Rodríguez-Castro
Keyword(s):  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Gender Beliefs ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Portuguese Adolescents
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document