The Role of Gender: Women in the Workplace
The experiences of men and women in the workplace are often very different. Women frequently must contend with gender-based discrimination. Although the courts got involved in gender-related employment issues in the 1970's, the burden of fighting ...
The Role of Gender: Similarities and Differences Between Men and Women
The fact that gender is a very different experience for males and females might suggest that men and women are fundamentally very different. But according to many who study gender, this is a fallacy.
The Role of Gender: Women's Professional Football
A woman who plays in a women's professional football league talks about her decision to join the league and discusses the reactions of friends and family
The Role of Gender: Gender Socialization
The gender socialization process teaches children from a very early age how to differentiate between males and females. Over time, most boys and girls take on gender-related traits and incorporate them into their behavior. There has been a longst...
The Role of Gender: Changing Gender Roles at Home
The rapidly increasing number of women in the labor force has been both a cause and effect of the shift in gender roles in recent years. Women have had less time and often less energy to devote to their traditional role as homemaker. This has trig...
I am a man
This award-winning documentary links everyday black men from various socioeconomic backgrounds with some of America's most prominent academics, social critics, and authors to provide an engaging, candid dialogue on black masculine identity in Americ...
Michael Kimmel: on gender
We've heard again and again that men and women are engaged in a "battle of the sexes," that we're so differently wired and so foreign to each other that we might as well come from different planets. In this powerful new lecture, renowned speaker and...
Red Moon
Red Moon confronts one the world's oldest and most pervasive taboo subjects. With humor and refreshing candor, the documentary provides a fascinating, often ironic, take on the absurd and frequently dangerous cultural stigmas and superstitions surro...
Psychology of Gender, The (Part Two)
Social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji continues her discussion of the Implicit Association Test. Dr. Banaji notes that the IAT data demonstrate that, "...while we can hold positive attitudes towards women, that doesn't necessarily stop us from...discr...
Psychology of Gender, The (Part One)
Social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji talks about gender stereotypes and attitudes towards women. Dr. Banaji reports that, while prejudice usually implies an antipathy or dislike, this is not really the case with regard to gender. "There seems not to ...