Getting Gender on Their Minds: A Classroom Exercise on Sex Roles.

Loewen, James W.; Sampson, Samuel F.

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ERIC Number: EJ339496

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1986

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Getting Gender on Their Minds: A Classroom Exercise on Sex Roles.

Loewen, James W.; Sampson, Samuel F.

Teaching Sociology, v14 n3 p185-87 Jul 1986

Presents a 25-minute in-class exercise designed to open students' minds to more subtle insights into the pervasive social processes that keep women out of many occupations and restrict their earnings. Provides a copy of the required handout and suggests follow-up discussion topics. (JDH)

Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Class Activities, College Instruction, Feminism, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Role Theory, Sex Role, Social Theories, Sociology, Stereotypes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Learner

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Language: English

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