Gender Expectations
A recent article headlined “Girls Enter the Boys’ World of Flipping” features teen girls who are claiming their place inside an emerging online community of extreme athletes who flip, freerun and defy expectations in a sport dominated by boys. Do you ever find gender expectations or norms confining? How? In what ways, if any, have…
Gender in the Workplace Study
Over the past three months, we have been reaching out to learning system vendors throughout the world, seeking to find information on the number of female executives at their companies and whether or not they had a leadership development program, and if so, what are the breakdowns? This post covers what will be included in…
Lesson of the Day: ‘How Language Classes Are Moving Past the Gender Binary’
Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “How Language Classes Are Moving Past the Gender Binary” by Molly LipsonMany languages, including Hebrew, French, Spanish, Italian and Arabic, use binary pronouns, such as he/she and male/female, which means that other gender identities are not formally acknowledged in those languages.In this lesson, you will learn about teachers who are finding ways…
Lesson of the Day: ‘Gender Pronouns Can Be Tricky on Campus. Harvard Is Making...
4. Why are some professors, colleges and universities resistant to the evolving uses of pronouns in their classrooms? Why did Nicholas K. Meriwether, 62, a professor at Shawnee State University, refuse to call a transgender student by “feminine titles or pronouns”? Do you agree that it would violate his religious convictions? How did the university…
