Audio Resources

Audio 9.1: “Theybies”: Letting Children Decide Their Gender
Description: Parents today, especially those who see gender as something along a spectrum, are raising their children in unconventional ways by allowing the kids decide their own gender identity.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Describe the difference between sex and gender.

Audio 9.2: Hollywood Stars Speak Out in Effort to Combat Gender Pay Gap
Description: Hollywood actresses are becoming vocal about the reality of gender discrimination in film and many are demanding equal pay and encouraging their male costars to support the initiative.
Learning Objective: 9.6: Explain social policies that could decrease gender stratification.

Audio 9.3: Billboard about Gender Roles Sparks Debate, Protest in North Carolina
Description: A billboard in North Carolina reads “Real men provide. Real women appreciate it.” NPR takes a look at the debate that followed.
Learning Objective: 9.2: Identify agents of gender socialization.

Video Resources

Video 9.1: Tough “Guise”
Description: Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the United States at the dawn of the 21st century.
Learning Objective: 9.5: Discuss costs and consequences of gender stratification.

Video 9.2: Everyday Things Women Pay More for Than Men
Description: Buzzfeed examines the “pink tax” women pay when purchasing those same items at higher prices than the ones marketed strictly for men.
Learning Objective: 9.5: Discuss costs and consequences of gender stratification.

Video 9.3: Sexism
Description: Laura Bates talks about her inspiring initiative. The EveryDaySexism is an ever-increasing collection of over 50,000 women’s experiences of gender imbalance. The stories come from women of all ages, races and sexual orientations, disabled and non-disabled, employed and unemployed, religious and non-religious. The project has expanded into 18 countries worldwide and become internationally renowned, featuring in media from the New York Times to French Glamour, CNN to Grazia South Africa, Cosmopolitan to the Times of India.
Learning Objective: 9.6: Explain social policies that could decrease gender stratification.

Web Resources

Web 9.1: The Effects of Gender Socialization on Men and Women
Description: This post describes different ways men and women are socialized to fit established gender roles.
Learning Objective: 9.2: Identify agents of gender socialization.

Web 9.2: What We Mean When We Say “Toxic Masculinity”
Description: A teacher discusses how terms like “toxic masculinity” can provoke conversations that help her students make sense of things they see in the daily news cycle.
Learning Objective: 9.5: Discuss costs and consequences of gender stratification.