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• Revisit the different levels (frameworks) used to study gender: individual level, interactionist

level, institutional level

• Dependent variables, independent variables, reading bivariate frequency tables

• Theories of housework allocation (relative resources, etc.)

• Compulsory motherhood, motherhood mystique, intensive mothering

• “For the Family”, integrated motherhood, active fathering, mommy wars

• Integrated motherhood

• Motherhood wage penalty, fatherhood wage premium

• Unequally sharing couples (indirect strategies of resistance), characteristics of equally sharing

and factors that help and interfere, how equally sharing versus unequally sharing mothers

approach conflicts

• Sex segregation, patterns, index of dissimilarity, current level, trends in sex segregation

• Individual level explanations for sex segregation

• Tomaskovic-Dewey findings on gender socialization as explanation for sex segregation

• “Principled” employer sex discrimination, statistical & consumer driven discrimination

• Experiences of people working in gender atypical positions, men in female-dominated positions

• Glass ceiling (and explanations for it), glass escalator

• Feminization of occupations, masculinization of occupations

• Gender-wage gap, explanations for gender-wage gap

• Media coverage of female political candidates, gender and voting behavior

• Gender and the composition of congress, supreme court, governors

• Focus of first wave feminism

• Sexual harassment, sexual harassment in the restaurant service industry, impacts of sexual

harassment, contrapower sexual harassment, changes needed to address sexual harassment

• Informal “hidden” and formal curriculum, vertical and horizontal stratification in education

• Gender expectations about math skills, gender and math

• Issues boys are more likely to experience in education

• Issues with using SAT as a measure of gender differences

• K – 12 gender patterns in education, gender and red-shirting

• Gender patterns in educational attainment, stereotype threat

• Models explain gender patterns in science: difference & structural deficit

• Different types of intimate-partner violence, negative effects of partner violence

• Sociological explanations of partner violence, patterns of partner violence

• Radical feminist perspective on sexual violence

• Common elements of feminist perspectives

• Liberal feminism, Marxist and Socialist feminism, Radical feminism