SOCY325 Week 6 discussion
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:
- What are some of the major threads that connect these institutions in terms of gender, gender expectations, or effects on gender?
- Are there any common problems that need to be solved?
- Why is it important to consider intersectionality whenever we look at gender in institutions? Give at least two examples from the learning resources.
- Is the role of gender in politics connected to finding those solutions? If so, how?
- 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:
- How do expectations about gender affect that institution?
- How does that institution affect gender?
- What are the major hurdles to achieving gender equality in that institution?
- What would gender equality look like in that institution?
- And, what do you see as the major work that institution needs to do to achieve gender equality?
Requirements: 300 words or more
