due in 3 hours

1.  Read this article (all parts).  History: Rosie, the Riveter   LINK (Links to an external site.)

Prompt for Discussion Notes:  What is your most important take away from this article?

2.  Watch this video:  The Lowell Mill Girls  LINK (Links to an external site.)

Prompt for Discussion Notes:  What is your most important take away from this video?

3. Watch this video: Why we have too few women leaders    LINK (Links to an external site.)

Prompt for Discussion Notes:  What is one reason given by the speaker for why this is the case?

4.  Review this webpage:  "Gender differences re: work"    LINK (Links to an external site.)

NOTE:  Be sure to scroll through all the articles pertaining to gender issues in the workplace through the last one "Gender Differences in the Workplace & Statistics"

Prompt for Discussion Notes:  What were two of the most interesting concepts/theories, statistics, or issues in this set of articles?

5.  Review this brief article, "The Gender Pay Gap Across the US in 2021" LINK (Links to an external site.)

     AND

     Review this brief article from the "Pew Institute," "Gender pay gap in U.S. held steady in 2020"  LINK Links to an external site.

Prompt for Discussion Notes:  What is your most important take away from these two articles?

6.  Review the various topics (all sections) on the AAUW.org web site  LINK (Links to an external site.)

Prompt for Discussion Notes:  (Read all the sections and then . . ) . . . Take one of the "Fast Facts" section (only the last 3, not the first one) and prepare to summarize that section during the discussion; What is one public policy change we could make in the U.S. to minimize the gender gap?  What is one way that business could decrease the gender gap among their employees?  Abdulla - "Take Mothers in the Workplace;"  "Dylan - Take Occupational Segregation" and; Salem - Take "Women & Student Debt"

7.  Watch video "Women in the Workplace"  LINK (Links to an external site.)

HIINT:  Be sure to go to the suggested website from the video for updated statistics and other information.

Prompt for Discussion Notes:  This 3-minute video is from 2015.  Note one issue or problem that has changed from then to now.  How has it changed?What do you think was the main cause of the change?