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Video 1: Polyamory and Emotional Literacy
Description: Kel Walters gives an informative TEDx Talk on the benefits of polyamorous relationships, while highlighting the role of emotional literacy in successful relationships. Waters also touches on issues of acceptance within the polyamorous community versus the monogamous community.

Video 2: Changing Gender Roles at Home
Description: This video by Intelecom Intelligent Communications sheds light on how changes in the division of labor in the workplace contributed to shifts in the household division of labor. With more women working outside the home, the “stay-at-home mom” stereotype seems outdated. In spite of shifting demographics, the video reveals that women are still likely to complete more housework than their male counterparts.

Video 3: This Emotional Life--Gender Roles and Relationships
Description: Two professors from UCLA, Benjamin Karney and Thomas Bradbury, share ways to avoid disagreements stemming from traditional gender role ideology.

Video 4: Dating Advice From Kids
Description: YouTuber Stuart Edge asks children for relationship advice--this video provides an insight on how children perceive gender roles in relationships which gives a basis for understanding why such roles are persistent throughout life. It is interesting to note the assumption of heteronormativity.

Audio 1: The Connection Between Gender Roles and Sex
Description: NPR journalist Alex Cohen speaks to Sarah Holley, a researcher in psychology at the University of Berkeley, about the ways in which gender roles are affected (or not) in same-sex relationships as opposed to heterosexual relationships.