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Gender and Society

Gender and Society. How Does Gender Impact Our Lives?. Coming Up. This week: The Pervasiveness of Gender Gender Roles Sexuality Next Week Review for Exam Exam. Gender is Pervasive. Gender tends to be present in nearly all of our interactions.

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Gender and Society

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  1. Gender and Society How Does Gender Impact Our Lives?

  2. Coming Up • This week: • The Pervasiveness of Gender • Gender Roles • Sexuality • Next Week • Review for Exam • Exam

  3. Gender is Pervasive • Gender tends to be present in nearly all of our interactions. • Unlike Race/Ethnicity and Class, people of different genders tend to interact more frequently.

  4. What are your impressions of this statue?

  5. What are your impressions of this statue?

  6. Gender Stereotypes? • How well do these impressions fit the ideas of what we think of pioneers, both men and women? • What impact do you think this has on people who walk by?

  7. What impact do pictures like this have? • Women internalize body images • Men are not affected by similar male images • Eating disorders vary by culture

  8. What would people think if we placed the head of the “Pioneer Mother” on the shoulders of the “Pioneer”?

  9. Gender is Socialized • Socialization of gender varies by culture. • Our concepts of gender come from the socialization that we receive from birth.

  10. Gender Interaction • Men’s networks (who they interact with) are larger and more loosely connected than women’s. • Men’s networks tend to revolve around work while women’s tend to be associated with family and neighborhood.

  11. Gender Interaction • In conversation, • Men tend to dominate, but not always. • But, it varies by the perceived gender role.

  12. Gender Roles in the US • What are the qualities we associate with a leader like the President or a CEO? • What do we consider feminine? • What do we consider masculine?

  13. Gender Roles • Can men and women cross roles? • What are the consequences?

  14. Gender vs Sex • All of the following are based on a continuum – meaning, no category is either male or female, but a combination of both to varying degrees. • Gender is related to how people perceive their femininity or masculinity. • Sex is related to a person’s biological characteristics. • Sexuality is related to who someone is attracted to emotionally, physically, and sexually.

  15. Gender and Sexuality • Transgender • Person who feels comfortable breaking conventional gender roles. • Transsexual • Person who feels they should be the other sex. • Lesbian/Gay/Homosexual • Person who is attracted to someone of the same sex. • Bisexual • Person is attracted to both opposite and same sex. • Straight/Heterosexual • Person who is attracted to someone of the opposite sex.

  16. Recap • Gender is pervasive in our society, but we may not see its effects. • There are expectations in society regarding gender roles. • Gender and sexuality are socialized and vary from culture to culture. • Gender and sexuality are not “either or” but exist on a continuum.

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