male peers
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmaleandpeer
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male
adjective
uk/meɪl/us/meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that fertilizes eggs, and does not produce babies or ...
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peer
noun[C]
uk/pɪər/us/pɪr/
a person who is the same age or has the same social position or the same abilities as other people in ...
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(Definition ofmaleandpeerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmale peers
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However, in themalepeerculture it may be important for boys to confront their attackers directly, even physically if necessary.
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This study provides evidence that groups interaction emerges at a specific time period inmalepeerculture.
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And they are being followed by their male peers.
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However, in the past women joined an age-set at circumcision and had their own initiation names, different from those of their male peers.
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They must become 'one of the boys', identifying with their male peers rather than with the women on whom they comment.
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Arguably, it became part of their sense of self, differentiating them both from their social inferiors and from their male peers.
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The mid-century reformers drew on this earlier tradition of feminine pedagogy and did not simply adopt the standards of boys' education and their male peers.
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Though among the creative artists of her generation her brilliance is without question, the protocols of prestige have been much less well oiled for her than for her male peers.
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Extending on this, the present study suggests that educationally underachieving young males are also more likely to father a child than their higher achieving male peers.
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She then argues that women are actively struggling for equality among their male peers, later asserting that women are coming strong.
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Unlike male students, she was not hired into the sociolgogy department, even though she far surpassed the productivity of her male peers.
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The sport was later included, with women being represented in equal numbers to their male peers.
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Moreover, women interviewed in this study perceived that many of their male peers were geeks, with limited social skills.
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Bedouin girls are much more likely to drop out of school than their male peers, and women are less likely to seek higher education.
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Not following these standards often leads to teasing and other such ridicule from their male peers.
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He is a very popular boy with both his female classmates and some of his male peers.
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In females, adjustment problems are more often manifested as internalizing problems, rather than the externalizing problems common among their male peers.
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Young women between the age of 27 and 33 earned 98%, nearly as much as their male peers.
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Because of that, his male peers, and many of his female peers, see him as a female, which upsets him though he doesn't express it strongly.
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