Weblog Assignment #4

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If you click here, you can go to SLOWLANE.COM. this web site helps staying at home dads and their families. There are many searchable online references, resources and networks on this web site. Therefore, they can find out a lot of information which can help them easily. We can also read articles, buy many books, see news, and enjoy poetris. All of them are written for staying at home dads including local and international dad organizations, single dads, new dads, and divorced dads. In addition, there are many links not only to discuss about those issues, but also to communicate with people who have same situations.


My opinion

Nowaday, dads who stay at home like single dads, new dads, or divorced dads are incleasing gradually. I think this web site is very usuful for those people, because they can find out the way to live more comfortably. They also can contact with people who have same situations, so they can share their ideas and opinions each other. As a result of this, they can release their stresses and strains for their sociaties or families. I think this web site offers them a good opportunity to solve their problems.

Weblog Assignment #3

I saw here. The article on the web site states that many European women are still in cruel circumstances for their work despite the fact that they do better in school than men. From this article, we can get the information about present circumstances of gender roles for their work, and know about some different treatment between male and female. There are mainly three kinds of information with some of the statistics. According to the first statistics, Latvia has the highest proportion of women managers. The second statistics show that Cyprus has the highest gender pay gap. The third statistics show the average of one third of women who are part-time workers.


My opinion

There is a similar problem in Japan. I wonder that despite the fact that a lot of women have better education in school than men, this is not reflected on entry to the labor market, and if they get jobs, their wages are less than men's wages. However, as this article says, I think this matter is getting better gradually. One of the reasons is that gender institution deeply thinks about it. Also in some countries, many women clamor against their government policy, because of lower pay. Therefore, I think this matter will be improved in the future.

Weblog Assignment #2

I saw this site. This mentions discussing the learning process called socialization. There are contents in the beginning of this article. The contents is mainly separated into two parts; socialization for social agents (humans) and socialization for non-humans (animal species). Also this article has a definition of the word "socialization". According to this article, socialization means "the process by which human beings or animals learn to adopt the behavior patterns of the community in which they live".


My opinion

There are contents in the beginning of this article. I think this is a nice notice to attract people. It is easy to understand what the article is describing. And also I was surprised when I knew that animals have socialization, even feral animals. From the explanation of this article, I think all creatures have socialization like humans. However socialization is not always good thing. It sometimes causes gender socialization because of reinforcing gender roles.
Therefore I think we need to have democratic (equal) socialization to decrease discrimination between boys and girls.