I got 40%. Better not go to Thailand...
http://www.bangkokdiaries.com/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-a-thai-lady-and-a-thai-ladyboy/
By the way, 5 are females and 5 are males.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Blogging Assignment Week 9
On a similar note to the story about Catalina de Erauso, I found it interesting that many of the people who interacted with Erauso were unable to determine his gender, especially other soldiers who would have spent a lot of intimate time with one another. So, I found a website that includes a quiz about whether or not you can guess if the person pictured is a male or female. The focus of the website is on Thailand's notoriety for ladyboys, aka men who look like females. The quiz on this article adds another dimension to determining gender: race. Does it make it harder for one to determine gender if that person is not of the same race?
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I understand how other people could have recognized the Lieutenant Nun as being biologically female. First, some women have facial features that seem a little more masculine; additionally, the portrait of the Lieutenant Nun does not seem particularly effeminate. What surprises me, however, is that on the multiple occasions during which the Lieutenant Nun lost her clothing, why did those who were travelling with her not reveal her secret to others? Why had others not heard of her story before she revealed it herself?
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I found this article online about the wage differences between men and women in different business industries. In this article you can see that generally women make from about 70% to 85% of what men make in most industries, with the outlier of construction workers making almost equal wages. Of course not every single industry is shown on this chart, and something I think would interesting to see is if there are any jobs where women do earn as much as men or even more than men. The chart doesn't show these positions but I would imagine that there are some statistics where women make more money. For example, jobs that are steretypically held by women, such as nurses, secrataries and nannys,would seem to pay more for a female than a male. Is that because there are few males that hold these jobs or is because females are wanted more for these jobs? I would question what the true reasoning behind this is. Also I find it interesting that the one job shown where women make almost equivalent salary to men is construction working, a job which is stereo-typically held by men as it implies labor and strength, something men are usually associated with. Is the reason why women are paid almost equal because there are few women in the construction industry? These are all interesting thoughts and ideas along with gender wages differences.