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Video Links

• Gender as a Spectrum, Not a Divide
  This short clip describes the four categories of gender in the Navajo culture and contrasts this with the dichotomous understandings of gender and the mandate that one’s gender must necessarily correspond to one’s biological sex. 

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• Miss Representation
  This documentary was released in 2011 and examines how mainstream media and culture contribute to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The documentary contains interviews with various people who hold political office as well as people who work in the entertainment industry.

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• Profile of Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Girl Shot by the Taliban 
  This 2009 New York Times documentary profiles Malala Yousafzai, a young girl living in an area of Pakistan that has come under Taliban control. When her school was going to be shut down, she decided to speak up for the right of girls to receive an education. This documentary was filmed before she was shot in 2012. 

      

• Malala Yousafzai UN Speech
  In 2012, Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl who’d become an international symbol of the suffering of girls in Pakistan and who’d been an outspoken advocate for the right of girls to receive an education, was shot by members of the Taliban while she and her friends were on the way to school. Though shot in the head and sustaining severe and life-threatening injuries, she survived. In this video, she addresses the United Nations and talks about her hopes for girls in Pakistan and around the world. 

     

Audio Links

• This American Life 15: Dawn
  In this program, a writer goes on a search for a mysterious neighbor from his childhood in Charleston, South Carolina, and stumbles onto an epic story of the Old South, the New South, gender confusion, Chihuahuas, and changing values in American journalism. This program documents his quest to find out the truth about the man who lived down the street from him 30 years ago in South Carolina: Gordon Langley Hall, also known as Dawn Langley Hall Simmons. Gordon was rumored to have had one of the first sex-change operations in America, then to have married a black man, then to have borne the black man's child. It was said he had a full coming-out party for his Chihuahua. It was said he had voodoo powers. The reporter sets out to find what was true and what was rumor about Gordon Langley Hall and stumbles onto a sprawling story about changing culture morés in America. 

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• This American Life 204: 81 Words
  This story is about how the American Psychiatric Association (APA) decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness. At that time, the APA declared that homosexuality was not a disease simply by changing the 81-word definition of sexual deviance in its own reference manual. It was a change that attracted a lot of attention at the time, but the story of what led up to that change is one that we hear today from reporter Alix Spiegel. Part One of Alix's story details the activities of a closeted group of gay psychiatrists within the APA who met in secret and called themselves the GAYPA . . . and another, even more secret group of gay psychiatrists among the political echelons of the APA. Alix's own grandfather was among these psychiatrists and the president-elect of the APA at the time of the change.

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• What is a College Major Really Worth?
  In this segment, host Michel Martin discusses a report recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The report describes the relationship between college major and graduates’ earnings. One of the key findings is that those who have majored in conventionally “masculine” areas (mathematics, science) earn more than those who major in conventionally “feminine” disciplines (education, humanities). 

      

Web Resources

Professional Resources

This area is covered by the American Sociological Association (ASA) 

• Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)
  SWS is an international organization of social scientists—students, faculty, practitioners, and researchers—working together to improve the position of women within sociology and within society in general.
   
• Gender & Society
  Consistently ranked as a top journal in both women's studies and sociology by the Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports, Gender & Society focuses on the social and structural study of gender as a basic principle of the social order and as a primary social category. Emphasizing theory and research from micro- and macrostructural perspectives, Gender & Society features original research, reviews, international perspectives, and book reviews from diverse social science disciplines, including anthropology, economics, history, political science, sociology, and social psychology (self-characterization).

​Data Resources

• The Institute for Women’s Policy Research
  The Institute for Women’s Policy Research includes a variety of topics such as work, health, poverty, and welfare. The institute has great publications on women, employment, earnings, and economic change. You can get added to an e-mail list that announces press releases and Capitol Hill briefings. 
   
• The United States Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau
  The United States Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau has its own website. 
   
• American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
  The labor union organization AFL-CIO tracks issues related to gender and pay equity in the workplace. 
   
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission maintains a website on sexual harassment. 
   
• U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women
  The U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women website provides information about this issue. 

​Other Resources

• The National Association for Women
  The National Association for Women, which was established in 1966, is dedicated to making legal, political, social, and economic change in our society in order to achieve their goal of eliminating sexism and ending oppression.
   
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
  The mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is to build the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. We do this by training activists, equipping state and local organizations with the skills needed to organize broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, and building the organizational capacity of our movement. Our Policy Institute, the movement’s premier think tank, provides research and policy analysis to support the struggle for complete equality and to counter right-wing lies. As part of a broader social justice movement, we work to create a nation that respects the diversity of human expression and identity and creates opportunity for all (self-characterization).
   
• The National Association of Professional Women
  The National Association of Professional Women has over 200 chapters throughout the United States and is dedicated to helping women promote their businesses and share their ideas as well as providing information regarding career opportunities for women.
   
• Gender and Society
  Michael Kearl’s Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace: Gender and Society.
   
• The Converging Wage Gap 1980–2012
  This article from Contexts, which is published by the American Sociological Association, analyzes the gender wage gap that has narrowed since 1979, which was the first year that this was calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This article takes a look at how the gender wage gap varies by age, with older women experiencing less inequality in terms of wages compared to younger women.
   
• Feminists for Life
  For an alternative perspective on gender and reproductive rights—“Pro Woman, Pro Life”—see Feminists for Life.
   
• Is Medicine's Gender Bias Killing Young Women?
  This article from Pacific Standard magazine examines how younger women are twice as likely to die from a heart attack when compared to their male counterparts. This article takes a look at some of the reasons why this is the case and how gender bias plays a role in this regard.
   
• The American Association of University Women (AAUW)
  The AAUW has dedicated more than 120 years to the advancement of education. To this day, AAUW continues to break through barriers to improve educational opportunities for women and girls. Learn how AAUW makes a difference through research, publications, leadership programs, and as one of the world’s largest sources of funding to ensure that women and girls have access to higher education and the opportunity to achieve excellence in professions of their choice.