Gender and Society

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

2. Coming Up • This week: • The Pervasiveness of Gender • Gender Roles • Gender and Alcohol • Gender and Leadership • Sexuality

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. Policing Gender Expectations

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

10. 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

11. 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.

12. Gender Interaction • In conversation, • Men tend to dominate, but not always. • Who dominates the conversation varies by the perceived gender role.

13. Gender Socialization • Interaction in conversation • Expectations about how to act and the qualities of men and women • Expectations about alcohol use

14. 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?