Gendered institutions.

This week asks you to look at many different institutions in our society specifically as gendered institutions. Referring directly to the learning resources for this week, as a response to this post, take a moment to synthesize what you have learned:

1.  What are some of the major threads that connect these institutions in terms of gender, gender expectations, or effects on gender?

2.  Are there any common problems that need to be solved?

3.  Why is it important to consider intersectionality whenever we look at gender in institutions? Give at least two examples from the learning resources.

4.  Is the role of gender in politics connected to finding those solutions? If so, how?

5.  Finally, choose one or two of the gendered institutions we learn about this week (education, politics, criminal justice, military, healthcare, religion), and dive deeper into these questions:

o  How do expectations about gender affect that institution?

o  How does that institution affect gender?

o  What are the major hurdles to achieving gender equality in that institution?

o  What would gender equality look like in that institution?

o  And, what do you see as the major work that institution needs to do to achieve gender equality?

                                              Learning Resources

• Breadcrumb:
• The Underrepresentation of Women in STEM https://youtu.be/GNQcKRhKE0Y
• Chapter 81: Gender Issues and Schooling
• Mary Lundeberg & Lindsey Mohan
• In: 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook
• Edited by: Thomas L. Good
• DOI: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.umuc.edu/10.4135/9781412964012.n81
• Subject: 21st Century Learning , General Education
• http://sk.sagepub.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/reference/education/n81.xml
• "Gender Issues and Schooling,” by Mary Lundeberg & Lindsey Mohan from 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook
• http://sk.sagepub.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/reference/download/education/n81.pdf
• Explore the website for the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers
• https://cawp.rutgers.edu
• "25 years after ‘The Year of the Woman,’ what’s changed?”https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/07/29/women/1qM1ANXSXPv40H9A0DUMQP/story.html
• "Women racked up victories across the country Tuesday. It may be only the beginning" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/women-racked-up-victories-across-the-country-tuesday-it-may-only-be-the-beginning/2017/11/08/97f8f3b0-c49f-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html
• "Medicine, Health, and Reproductive Justice” from the textbook Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, by Kang, et al.
• http://openbooks.library.umass.edu/introwgss/chapter/medicine-health-and-reproductive-justice/
• LGBT Healthcare Training Video: "To Treat Me, You Have to Know Who I Am,” NYC Hospitals training video
• https://youtu.be/NUhvJgxgAac
• Military Masculinity
• Daniel Burland
• In: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
• Edited by: Jodi O'Brien
• DOI: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.umuc.edu/10.4135/9781412964517.n283
• Subject: Sociology of Gender
• http://sk.sagepub.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/
• http://sk.sagepub.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/reference/gender/n283.xml
• Military, Women Serving in
• Lory Manning
• In: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
• Edited by: Jodi O'Brien
• DOI: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.umuc.edu/10.4135/9781412964517.n281
• Subject: Sociology of Gender
• http://sk.sagepub.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/reference/gender/n281.xml
• TIMELINE: A History Of Women In The US Military
• http://taskandpurpose.com/timeline-history-women-us-military/
• "Women in Federal Law Enforcement: The Role of Gender Role Orientations and Sexual Orientation in Mentoring,” by Barratt et al. ,Sex Roles, 71(1-2)
• The Common Experiences of Women Who Leave Extreme Religions
• A new book captures the similarities among apostates from a wide range of religious groups.
• https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/the-common-experiences-of-women-who-leave-extreme-religions/275065/