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Gender and Society. How Does Gender Impact Our Lives?. Coming Up. This week: The Pervasiveness of Gender Gender Roles Gender and Alcohol Gender and Leadership Sexuality. Gender is Pervasive. Gender tends to be present in nearly all of our interactions.
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Gender and Society How Does Gender Impact Our Lives?
Coming Up • This week: • The Pervasiveness of Gender • Gender Roles • Gender and Alcohol • Gender and Leadership • Sexuality
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.
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?
What impact do pictures like this have? • Women internalize body images • Men are not affected by similar male images • Eating disorders vary by culture
What would people think if we placed the head of the “Pioneer Mother” on the shoulders of the “Pioneer”?
Gender is Socialized • Socialization of gender varies by culture. • Our concepts of gender come from the socialization that we receive from birth. • Baby blankets • Toys
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.
Gender Interaction • In conversation, • Men tend to dominate, but not always. • Who dominates the conversation varies by the perceived gender role.
Gender Socialization • Interaction in conversation • Expectations about how to act and the qualities of men and women • Expectations about alcohol use
Spin the BottleSex, Lies and Alcohol • How is drinking defined for men? • How are men supposed to act? • How is drinking defined for women? • How are women supposed to act? • How is drinking by women related to men’s expectations about women? • How is alcohol related to sexual assaults?