ENG 107 Women in Workplaces Emotion and Hopes Discussion

Instructions:

Choose two options from the list below (every option has a big problem).

1. What is the first option you chose?

2. Copy and paste the problem paragraph from that option.

3. Copy and paste the comment you wrote. Please remember that to get full credit, your comment must include the following:

The biggest problem in this paragraph is ______

To solve this problem you need to _____________

Here is how I would rewrite the paragraph __________________

4. What is the second option you chose?

5. Copy and paste the problem paragraph from that option.

6. Copy and paste the comment you wrote. Please remember that to get full credit, your comment must include the following:

The biggest problem in this paragraph is ______

To solve this problem you need to _____________

Here is how I would rewrite the paragraph __________________

Option A:

We all know that women and men have physiological differences, but do women and men have different brains? This question is answered by the title of a non-fiction book by Gina Rippon: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds. The New York Times reviewed the book and identified the book’s main claim: “men’s and women’s brains are not so different after all” (Ostler). The review also points to some of Rippon’s specific support for this claim. For example, Rippon described a research study that revealed how, even when men’s and women’s behavior is different, their brain activity is exactly the same:

She reports on a fascinating study in which both boys and girls were shown videos of someone being injured. They were scanned in an fMRI machine while watching the videos, and brain activity in areas related to empathy was measured. The subjects were also asked how badly they felt — a direct metric of empathy. The researchers found that girls report more empathy as they age, and boys report less. But, interestingly, the brain activity shows no variation by gender at any age (Ostler).

Basically, this research proves that boys and girls act differently, but it is not because of differences in their brain. So why do boys and girls act differently? I think it is obvious that they act differently because they have been trained to act differently. In this case, girls have been encouraged to show empathy and boys have been discouraged from showing empathy. So girls have been given more freedom than boys by society to express what they actually feel.

 

Option B:

One of the idea Reiner’s provide and Sandburg did not discuss about in his essay is boys when they are young have ability to show emotion and hopes than girls by showing facial expression but since they become older that change. I think Sandberg would say in respond to that is correct and especially when she talked about men and women in workplaces and how both of them feel. Sandberg would agree with Reiner’s idea and especially when she mentioned the history of men at the past and now to women. According to Sandberg, “where each child answered the question ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ they noted that several of the boys wanted to be president. None of the girls did”. That show Sandberg would agree because we clearly see that boys have ambition and easy to express what they have and their emotions than girls.