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Summary: Students claim that many American schools enforce ridiculous dress codes for girls because it 'distracts' other male students. High school senior Jackson Brooks believes that calling girls' clothing distracting implies that girls are the reason to the disruptions in classes. "That's like saying that because a store has a cash register, it's the store's fault if it gets robbed!"
If that is the way that school systems thinks, why don't they consider that female students could also be 'distracted' from the clothing of male. This way of thinking suggests that schools only care about how boys learn.

MENZA, KAITLIN. "Which Side Are You On?." Scholastic Choices, vol. 30, no. 4, Jan. 2015, p. 2. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mat&AN=99992684&site=ehost-live.

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Summary: Pantene Philippines breaks down double-standards for men and women at work in a 60-second commercial. Saying that while women are "bossy", the men are the "boss", "pushy" instead of "persuasive", "selfish" instead of "dedicated".

Stampler, Laura. “Pantene Breaks Down Every Sexist Workplace Stereotype in One Ad.” Time, Time, 10 Dec. 2013, business.time.com/2013/12/10/pantene-powerfully-breaks-down-every-sexist-workplace-stereotype-in-one-ad/.

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" 'There are lots of
reasons. For one thing, Miss Maudie can’t serve on a jury because she’s a woman
—'
'You mean women in Alabama can’t—?' I was indignant.
'I do. I guess it’s to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom’s.' "
*Page 296

Comment: Miss Maudie Atkinson, and all women in the book are considered to the general public as weak, delicate, and fragile. From their perspective, we could say that women are like precious porcelain tea sets. Atticus says that the fragility of women is what makes them unable to take part in the trial, but having women that are part of trials like Tom Robinson's case was exactly what they needed

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" 'We decided that it
would be best for you to have some feminine influence. It won’t be many years,
Jean Louise, before you become interested in clothes and boys—' "
*Page 170

Comment: The term 'feminine influence' suggests that girls had to sculpted in a certain way and that the way tomboy Scout acts is not appropriate for her young age of 8.

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Summary: Female soccer player Elizabeth Lambert is known for the viral videos of her throwing punches and pulling the hair of her opponents. Lambert received harsh criticism and apologized to "practically everyone in New Mexico". There seems to be a double-standards for female athletes and male athletes everywhere around the world. Society always will have higher expectations in behavior and lower expectations in action for women. For example, LeGarrette Blount, an American football player, has been filmed punching another player in the face. And although he was suspended for the season, he was quickly reinstated.

Deveny, Kathleen. “In Defense of Elizabeth Lambert.” Newsweek, Newsweek LLC, 20 Nov. 2009, www.newsweek.com/defense-elizabeth-lambert-76669.

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"But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a
while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most of the remaining twilights
that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch."
*Page 55

" 'Jem, please—'
'Scout, I’m tellin‘ you for the last time, shut your trap or go home—I declare to
the Lord you’re gettin’ more like a girl every day!'
With that, I had no option but to join them."
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Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. Grand Central Publishing, 2010.

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"She [Calpurnia] seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the
kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl."
*Page 154

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How does society's definition of female roles, both during the 1930s and today, shape, affect, and impact the female characters?

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Although less noticeable today, females living in both the era of TKAM and now have to live with the many stereotypes that are ingrained into our culture.

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"I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with."
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