Analyzing Gender, Culture, and Health Disparities in Singapore

The study investigates how genes, gender, and culture collectively impact societal norms and health outcomes in Singapore. It highlights issues like rape victim slut-shaming by media, skewed natural sex ratios due to sex selection practices, and the effects of hookup culture on single individuals. The paper underscores the importance of addressing gender discrimination and enhancing support systems for victims through legal and counseling services. Recommendations include fostering appreciation for human diversity and integrating social, cultural, and genetic factors in health assessments. Ultimately, this research aims to clarify how these elements create both challenges and opportunities for understanding complex traits that affect well-being.

Genes, Culture, and Gender
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Social Issue......................................................................................................................................1
Explain why the social issue is a problem, both in a general sense as well as in the Singapore
context..........................................................................................................................................1
Use relevant research to explain why it is important to address the issue...................................2
Acknowledge what the government or the relevant body had done on this issue.......................2
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

Introduction
The discussion of the essay is about determining the social issues like the genes, culture, and
gender where the culture is about enduring the behavior, ideas and the attitude which are shared
by a large group of people. The gender in psychology is the characteristics of biological and
social influence where the people define the males, females and the other. The gender role is
about the expectation from people, mainly based on the gender identity. The genes are the
natural selection with the guiding force in the creation of complex functional mechanism known
as adaptations (Coconuts, 2016). The humans have the different biological needs which need to
be met in order to survive.
Social Issue
Explain why the social issue is a problem, both in a general sense as
well as in the Singapore context
There is a gender imbalance where the stacks of social science show the dating and mating behavior
which is mainly influenced by the sex ratios. There are marriageable men who have the dating culture
with courtship and Romans and men need to attract a wife, by earning more. The gender ratio skew
towards men is set with the dating culture which tends to become more sexualized. The people tend to
have a better sex when ratios skew female. The women frequently wind up being treated to be the sex
objects in Singapore or elsewhere and the men are found to be inclined to exercise the option to delay
marriage and play the field. The uneven ratios tend to add the sexual nirvana for the heterosexual men but
for the women, there is a high priority on getting married and getting the children wedlock.
The gender, genes and the culture also include the issues of slut-shaming where the girls or the women
are criticked to violate the expectations of behavior and appearance in regard to sexuality. The example is
about violating the dress code policies by dressing in the provocative ways requesting the access to birth
control with pre-marital, or casual sex (Eliza, 2017).
With respect to an issue in Singapore, there are problems related to how the women or the other races or
culture are identifying characteristics which are feminized. The check is whether it is sexual or the social,
body that tends to haunt or threaten with the figure of threat and arguing on the economic and social
disintegration. The cultural crises rise in Singapore with threatening from within and without, merely
repositioning the age-old reminder. The racism is rarely far from any surface of the Asian societies. The
multiracialism encourages a higher consciousness of one's race even as it insists on tolerance.

Use relevant research to explain why it is important to address the
issue
In order to address the issue in Singapore, there are comparisons about the gender differences where the
women are sensitive to smells and sound and experience anxiety disorders or depression. The average
males are found to be slower to enter puberty and quicker to die than the women. The women have a
greater level of connection and sympathy with the better non-verbal emotional connection. The men are
found to fight or argue. But on the other hand, the social dominance of men tends to occupy more position
with more powerfulness. The leadership style of men tends to talk assertively, with interruption, where
the women tend to be more indirect, less interruptive (Birger, 2015).
Considering the sexuality, it is important to address the issue, where the males are more likely found to
initiate the sexual activity and fantasize about sex, permissive attitudes and seek partners. The women
sexuality generally tends to be set by the emotional passion. The cross-cultural evidence suggests that the
social or the cultural factors influence the differences in gender based on cognitive performance. The
gender roles over the time and culture which has been more set to mark the difference that is malleable of
both sexes who are capable to effectively carry out the organizational roles. The slut-shaming needs to be
focused on where the women are insulted by their body. They are the victim blaming for blame and other
sexual assault. This is done by stating the crime where women wearing revealing clothes or acting
completely in a sexually provocative manner, before the consent of sex (Steinberg, 2016).
"Raped after lying to parents" focuses on the alleged wrongdoing or untrustworthiness of the victim
which suggest that the sexual assault is the punishment. This happens mainly because the perpetrator
tends to choose the disregard consent which is not due to the peripheral decisions which are made by the
victim. Th gender roles and peer transmission vary with culture and time which is set currently towards a
greater equality. The peers are considered to have a major impact on behavior and perceived gender role.
Here, the changes and innovation come from and is embraced by the young. The culture becomes more
gender equal and the psychological differences between the men and women tend to lessen. The
aggression is the behavior which intends to harm, and the men are more likely to injure the others across
the time, culture and age (Hernandez et al., 2006). It is important for the women to be calm and composed
with making decisions, smartly, rather than keeping their life at risk.
Acknowledge what the government or the relevant body had done on
this issue.
As per the analysis, the government of Singapore has focused on the clause in Constitution
article 16(1)(a) which reads that there shall be no discrimination against any citizen of Singapore
mainly on the grounds of caste, creed, culture, or sex. On the other hand, WHO (World Health
Organization) has focused on sex selection should be the choice of an individual. The selection is

based on wide range of social implications (Feldman et al., 2016). The ethical concern is that the
sex selection will tend to reinforce discrimination mainly against the women. There is a need to
work on handling the distortion of natural sex ratio leading to gender imbalance and reinforce
discriminatory stereotypes towards women by devaluing the females. The Sexual Assault Care
Center set up by the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) focus on
directing the poor girl to care center where she gets a proper counseling and legal information in
Singapore (Jiang et al., 2015).
Recommendation
The sex-linked biology is set to the concept of race, ethnicity and the clarity to determine the
interactive influences of each in giving rise to the differentials of health. There is a need to focus
on the concepts which impede the appreciation of the rich variety of humans where the attention
needs to be given to the other category people as well. This will help in properly assessing the
impact on health with interactions among the social, cultural and the genetic factors. The
consistency is mainly through the effect across the racial groups which result in genetic variants
with common biological effect.
Conclusion
The challenge is mainly to focus on how genes, gender, and culture could impose a challenge
and opportunity for clarification. The sex and race are the complex traits which are important to
understanding and its impact on the health with each genetic underpinning. There are genetic
studies of sex and gender which are set to the extent to take hold of the detailed information
about genetic similarities and differences (Buikema et al., 2017). The victims in Singapore cite
disbelief and unsupportive attitude from the peers and family which is a major reason that they
are not able to report the crime.

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