module 6 notes

1.  Watch video:  Women in Politics from the History Channel

Link to video (Links to an external site.)

Discussion Question for Notes:  Gather some information about any well-known woman in politics and include highlights of her career in your notes.  Be prepared to discuss this woman during our meeting.  Please advise each other of which woman you have chosen so we have 3 different ones to learn about.  NOTE:  You should let each other know who you have chosen by Sunday evening.  First come, first serve.

2.  Watch this video: Let's try emotional correctness

LINK (Links to an external site.)  

Discussion Question for Notes:  Why is this video important in understanding women and their participation in electoral politics?

3. Review this webpage from the Pew Institute:  Long-standing gender gap in presidential voting

LINK (Links to an external site.)

AND

Review this webpage article from the Pew Institute:  The Gender Gap in presidential voting

LINK (Links to an external site.)

Discussion Question for Notes:  Based on the chart in the 2nd article what are the most important factors in addition to gender that made a woman more likely to vote for Hilary Clinton in 2016? 

4.  Review this webpage article:  How Americans describe what society values in men and women

LINK (Links to an external site.)

Discussion Question for Notes:  Based on what you have read so far in this course or from other information you have studied, what is a likely reason for the differences this author describes?

5.  For your article/website/analysis for this week please do the following:

Discussion Question for Notes:  Review several news source websites and locate at least two sources each from print media (via websites) and from videos about our current Vice-President Kamala Harris and analyze the news coverage she has received.  What are the primary messages you found about her?  Was there a difference in that coverage based on news outlet sources?  Record key points in your notes but also be prepared to discuss what you found.

NOTE:  I included the points that I have been allocating for searching for and posting an article or website into this Notes assignment.