This essay is formatted as a letter in response to a criticism which I have frequently received from certain portions of the feminist community. Namely, feminist who understand “the social construction of gender” to refer to a total absence of any “innate” quality to gender identity. In other words, that people develop a gender identity solely based on our societal ideas about what is known as ...

This paper describes the traditional authorship attribution subtask of the PAN/CLEF 2013 workshop. In our attempt to classify the documents based on gender and age of an author, we have applied a traditional approach of topic modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation[LDA]. We used the content based features like topics and style based features like preposition-frequencies, which act as the eff...

The use of online course research, while limited, is inconclusive in determining expected student performance in online versus a traditional lecture format. introductory microeconomics classes, analyzing learning differences between those in online and traditional lecture classes. In addition to comparing overall performances, the researchers tested further to determine if gender, ethnicity, ma...

Music is known to be one of the most visible forms of artistic expression through which traditional patriarchal values in society can be contested and challenged. However, it has not been recognised to what extent globalisation has enhanced or hindered the use of music as a tool for gender equality. Therefore, it is necessary to find linkages between gender and music in globalisation processes....

Some languages have both gender and classifiers, contrary to what was once believed possible. We use these interesting languages as a unique window onto nominal classification. They provide the impetus for a new typology, based on the degree of orthogonality of the semantic systems and the degree of difference of the forms realizing them. This nine-way typology integrates traditional gender, tr...

Previous studies on individual-level gender ideologies in Russia have produced conflicting results, with some suggesting re-traditionalisation and others noting increasing egalitarianism. This research explores changes the Russian population’s views division of labour between 1994 2012, moving beyond unidimensional conceptualisations ideology that juxtapose traditionalism The findings evidence ...