class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # SOC 2220 Discussion Section ## Week 8 ### Xuewen Yan ### 2020-10-30 --- # Announcement - Quiz 6 this week starting at 3pm Friday until 6:30pm Sunday - Event Write-up: Recording can be found [https://www.ecornell.com/keynotes/](https://www.ecornell.com/keynotes/) [https://events.cornell.edu/search/events?search=SOCCAL](https://events.cornell.edu/search/events?search=SOCCAL) [https://inequality.cornell.edu/events-0](https://inequality.cornell.edu/events-0) [https://www.priceinitiative.org/](https://www.priceinitiative.org/) - No class next Tuesday! Use this time to do Hagerman’s reading if you are behind the schedule --- # Today's goal: Explore WHY sociologists say that - gender, sex and sexuality are distinct concepts but are all ^[entirely or partially, depending on the scholar's position] **social constructs**? - the study of gender and sexuality provides a lens for the study of **power assymetry** and **social stratification**? --- # Activity 1: Understand “doing gender” Video on toys ads and learning gender [https://feministfrequency.com/video/toy-ads-and-learning-gender/](https://feministfrequency.com/video/toy-ads-and-learning-gender/) Questions: - What is "gender role socialization" according to Gansen(2017)? How do these toys play a role in shaping the gender socialization process? - Can you think of any other examples where society structures the “doing gender” process? Do these processes have consequences for the issues of power, privilege, and questions of social exclusion and inclusion? - In what ways are sex and sexuality also socially constructed? How are these constructions related to the distribution of power and resources in society? --- # Activity 2: Mechanisms of the gender pay gap One person sharing screen: Read the article [Even The Most Successful Women Pay A Big Price In Pandemic](https://www.npr.org/2020/10/20/924566058/even-the-most-successful-women-are-sidelining-careers-for-family-in-pandemic) Questions 1. What are reasons that Professor Chen could not do research during the pandemic? 2. Researchers observe that empirically, women who have children earn less in the workplace than childless women (*motherhood penalty*), whereas fathers earn more than unmarried or childless men (*fatherhood premium* or *fatherhood bonus*). How may these concepts be related to the article, and why do you think these phenomena exist? 4. According to this article, what are examples in family that gender acts as a process, structure, and stratification during the pandemic? (Lorber 1994) 5. What are the causes of and solutions for gender inequity and gender wage gap? (preschool, college, workplace, laws, family, etc) (Individual, Institutional, Interactional, Others?)