Problem 1: Discuss the role of the media in influencing gender identity.
Problem 2: Choose a personal care product that you use that connects to your gender identity in some way. Explain how the product connects to your gender identity.
Problem 3: Intersectionality helps us recognize that variations in the meaning and display of gender are related to different levels of power, prestige and privilege associated with membership in other socially constructed categories of difference and inequality. Discuss a social problem of your choice through an intersectional lens.
Problem 4: Our course material discussed the shifting work/family/gender nexus, specifically how we have moved from the family-based economy (from the feudal period) to the family-wage economy (from the industrial period) to the family-consumer economy (in the contemporary period). Discuss one central point you took away from this material about gender.
Problem 5: Define occupational sex segregation. Give one example of an occupation where you believe there is occupational sex segregation. Explain.