Research Questions

Medical abortion is a routine medical procedure, but its safety depends on the conditions in which it is performed and the term at which the pregnancy is terminated. It is safe if performed by a medical professional following the protocol recommended by World Health Organization and using the methods appropriate to the pregnancy duration term […]

Many women nowadays participate in the battle for their reproductive right to make abortions because they want to be in full control of their own bodies. At the same time, many women who decide to make an abortion do not know the potential risks to their mental and physical health that can seriously impact their

According to World Health Organization (2021), annually, around 73 million abortions take place in the world. For centuries, women have been fighting for their right to take full control of their bodies and decide whether they want to become mothers. The factors making women have abortions differ dramatically. Some of them take such a step

Every so often, a ranking of presidents is compiled by leading historians and scholars. Most people have their top 2 or 3 favorites. Some may have a top 5. Far fewer think about the worst presidents in U.S. history. While this course has not discussed every U.S. president in detail, it has covered the entire

Taken together, these results suggest that when compared to female college students who do not play intercollegiate sports, female student-athletes conform to the same levels of feminine norms, but these student-athletes also conform to certain traditional masculine norms that are associated with participation in sport. These results provide mixed support for our first two hypotheses.

The results of the study provided mixed sup- port for the third hypothesis that athlete status, self-perceptions of body dissatisfaction, and conformity to traditional feminine norms (i.e., Thinness, Invest in Appearance) would predict body esteem. Participation in athletics did not significantly predict body esteem, once other variables were entered that explained more of the variance

There are limitations in this current study that need to be acknowledged. First, the design was cross-sectional, and the regression analysis contained a high number of predictor variables. Additionally, the experience of student-athletes at this particular NCAA Division III institution may not be representative of the experience of women elsewhere. There may be differences that

Taken together, the results of this study have implications for not only a better understanding of the role of traditional gender norms in sport, but also for future research into how conformity to gender norms can influence women’s perceptions of body image. An understanding of gen- der norms and contextual pressures to conform to these

In order to more closely examine female student-athletes’ experience with gender norms that operate within sport, we explored conformity to masculine and feminine norms and the role of this conformity in perceptions of body image. The first purpose of our study was to determine if female student-athletes differed from female college students in their conformity

Body image has been conceptualized as a social construct that differs based on contexts and experiences with gender socialization (Cash, The´riault, & Annis, 2004). American society’s conception of femininity as body- based has important implications for body im- age attitudes and behaviors. Cultural standards of femininity–particularly the dominant images of thin bodies– have been found