Gender Norming (Final)
Matt Amos
What exactly is a standard? According to Webster's dictionary, a standard is a level of quality or excellence that is accepted as the norm or by which actual attainments are judged. Standards are created because someone believes that a fair and efficient form of doing something is necessary. 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. 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......

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Title: Gender Norming
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