Gender Role Orientation

Famous quotes containing the words gender, role and/or orientation:

    “... lynching was ... a woman’s issue: it had as much to do with ideas of gender as it had with race.”
    —Paula Giddings (b. 1948)

    “His role was as the gentle teacher, the logical, compassionate, caring and articulate teacher, who inspired you so that you wanted to please him more than life itself.”
    —Carol Lawrence, U.S. singer, star of West Side Story. Conversations About Bernstein, p. 172, ed. William Westbrook Burton, Oxford University Press (1995)

    “Institutions of higher education in the United States are products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are valued over cooperation, connectedness and subjectivity.”
    —Yolanda Moses (b. 1946)