Video and Multimedia

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Video 1: The Urgency of Intersectionality
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias — and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.
 

Video 2: Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included
Learning Objective: LO 3
Summary: Michael Kimmel makes the surprising, funny, practical case for treating men and women equally in the workplace and at home. It's not a zero-sum game, but a win-win that will result in more opportunity and more happiness for everybody.
 

Video 3: Experiment: Developmental Gender Study
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: Some of the most basic differences between the sexes are revealed at a very young age. These findings raise a central question: Are gender differences and behaviors learned or innate? Developmental neuroscientist Dr. Michael Meaney of McGill University studied the gender roles and talks about his findings.
 

Audio 1: Young People Push Back Against Gender Categories
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Summary: As society has become more accepting of gays, lesbians and transgender people, a new generation of young people is challenging those categories in favor of a more fluid understanding of gender. They refuse to be limited by notions like male and female. NPR's Margot Adler reports on the call for less stringent categorization for gender identities.
 

Audio 2: Speaking Through Silence & Erasure: Race, Sexuality, & Expression in Marginalized Language Communities
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: Center for Race & Gender. Speaking Through Silence & Erasure: Race, Sexuality, & Expression in Marginalized Language Communities
 

Audio 3: Media Talk podcast: mind the gender gap
Learning Objective: LO 3
Summary: Media Guardian: Jane Martinson and guests perform a gender test on the entire media industry.
 

Website 1: Association for Psychological Science.
Learning Objective: LO 2,3
Summary: The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national and international level.

Website 2: ScienceDaily
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: ScienceDaily is one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites. Since starting in 1995, the award-winning site has earned the loyalty of students, researchers, healthcare professionals, government agencies, educators and the general public around the world.

Website 3: The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO)
Learning Objective: LO 1,2,3
Summary: UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector works towards providing strong role models for women and girls in science throughout the world, building capacities of women in STEM, as well as supporting and promoting the contributions of women to scientific knowledge generation and dissemination to advance sustainable development.