The fruitless (fru) gene in Drosophila melanogaster is a multifunctional gene that has sex-specific functions in the regulation of male sexual behavior and sex-nonspecific functions affecting adult viability and external morphology. While much attention has focused on fru's sex-specific roles, less is known about its sex-nonspecific functions. We have examined fru's sex-nonspecific role in embr...

Sex-role reversal represents a formidable challenge for evolutionary biologists, since it is not clear which ecological, life-history or social factors facilitated conventional sex roles (female care and male-male competition for mates) to be reversed (male care and female-female competition). Classic theories suggested ecological or life-history predictors of role reversal, but most studies fa...

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes medical students towards gender roles. A cross-sectional conducted. enrolled voluntary from 1st and 6th grades school in University. Out 764 population, results for 518 could be analyzed. Beyond socio-demographic characteristics, students’ awareness roles measured using 38-item Gender Roles Attitude Scale (GRAS). mean age 21.68±3.04 years...

ABSTRACT The goal of this study was to examine the sex role attitudes of typical college students before and after a 15-week sex roles class. A questionnaire consisting of the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), a modified form of the Attitudes Toward Women Scale, and 34 questions concerning sex-role attitudes and beliefs was administered to students in psychology of sex roles classes and to control...

In the current study, I describe values for gender roles and cross-sex relations among adolescents growing up in a southern Mexican Maya community in which high school was introduced in 1999. A total of 80 adolescent girls and boys, half of whom were attending the new high school, provided their opinions on two ethnographically derived vignettes that depicted changes in gender roles and relatio...

background: c onflicts are inevitable among couples. in fact, couples show various levels of independence and correlation in common decisions they make and cooperation they have. high levels of conflicts would lead to family dissociation. the present study tried to evaluate the relation between sex education and on reducing the overall marital conflict score and its dimensions such as relations...

Background: The end phase of the development stage adolescents should have matured themselves in understanding gender roles accordance with their sexual roles. Gender dysphoria occurs when experience identity disorders which confusion over that are contrary to roles, so they tend like same sex. Research Objectives: To identify senior high school students Samarinda City. Methods: A descriptive s...