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  2. Stability–instability paradox - Wikipedia

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    The stabilityinstability paradox is an international relations theory regarding the effect of nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction.It states that when two countries each have nuclear weapons, the probability of a direct war between them greatly decreases, but the probability of minor or indirect conflicts between them increases.

  3. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Stabilityinstability paradox: When two countries each have nuclear weapons, the probability of a direct war between them greatly decreases, but the probability of minor or indirect conflicts between them increases. Paradox of tolerance: A tolerant society that tolerates intolerant ideas becomes less tolerant overall. Closely related ...

  4. Gender-equality paradox - Wikipedia

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    The gender-equality paradox is the finding that various gender differences in personality and occupational choice are larger in more gender equal countries. Larger differences are found in Big Five personality traits, Dark Triad traits, self-esteem, depression, personal values, occupational and educational choices.

  5. Gender paradox (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    [1] Specifically, the "paradox" arises from sociolinguistic data showing that women are more likely to use prestige forms and avoid stigmatized variants than men for a majority of linguistic variables, but that they are also more likely to lead language change by using innovative forms of variables.

  6. Health survival paradox - Wikipedia

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    Sex gap in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy [1]. The male-female health survival paradox, also known as the morbidity-mortality paradox or gender paradox, is the phenomenon in which female humans experience more medical conditions and disability during their lives, but live longer than males.

  7. Stable marriage problem - Wikipedia

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    men get their first choice and women their third - (AY, BZ, CX); all participants get their second choice - (AX, BY, CZ); women get their first choice and men their third - (AZ, BX, CY). All three are stable, because instability requires both of the participants to be happier with an alternative match.

  8. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex

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    The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex is an article regarding theories of the oppression of women originally published in 1975 by feminist anthropologist Gayle Rubin. [1] In the article, Rubin argued against the Marxist conceptions of women's oppression—specifically the concept of " patriarchy "—in favor of her own ...

  9. Modern Woman: The Lost Sex - Wikipedia

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    Modern Woman: The Lost Sex portrays the feminist movement not as a response to centuries-long subjugation of women, but rather as a misguided attempt to remedy the female population's lack of clear purpose after the Industrial Revolution forced them and their economic productivity out of the home. The authors argue that while feminism claims to ...