Gender Norming

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Social Issues

 

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Angela C

 

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November 23, 2014

 

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University

 

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The military is full of these standards. One of the most widely known is the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT). It tests the maximum amount of push-ups and sit-ups a person can do in two minutes. Along with completing a two-mile run in the allotted time prescribed. The APFT is different from any other standardized test I have ever seen...
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It is painfully obvious that the test is severely skewed in the females favor. About fifteen years ago, "a group of sports medicine experts in the Army decided that the standards for the females in the APFT were not fair" (www.us.army.mil/athleticmed.html). They believe that overall some parts of the body were weaker on females than in males, and that a new test could help females be equals in the military...
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