Gender Assignment
Please answer the following questions:
1. What is the Family Values movement? Which sociological theory does it support? Why?
2. Identify three historical changes in the family that impacted women negatively in society and explain how they impacted women negatively.
3. What are the motherhood and fatherhood mandates? What do the functionalist and conflict theories say about each one?
4. In which racial/ethnic groupare men most likely to share in household responsibilities? Why?
5. What are the two contemporary fatherhood models? Which is better for families? Why?
6. What is the feminist view of motherhood?
7. What are the pros and cons of legalizing same sex marriage? How is this similar to and/or different from the fight to legalize interracial marriage decades ago?
8. Explain how different social problems are constructed as gendered issues.
9. What types of majors are women concentrated in compared to men?
10. What are three ways that girls' experiences in the classroom differ from boys'?
11. How is sexual harassment related to the creation of an unequal learning environment for girls?
12. How is school a gender-segregated workplace (both in occupation and pay)?
13. What are two ways that boys suffer in school, and why do they suffer from these issues?
14. Explain Title IX, its impact on society, and the nature of the backlash against it.
15. Using the social constructionist position, explain how gender inequality is perpetuated through the education system.
16. Take a position on whether boys suffer in the education system. In doing this, discuss the difficulties in the education system for both boys and girls, then explain how each is related to androcentric society and the hegemonic masculine standard.