1. How Does Gender Impact Our Lives?
Gender and Society
How Does Gender Impact Our Lives?

2. Spin the Bottle Sex, Lies and Alcohol
How is drinking defined for men?
How are men supposed to act?
How is drinking defined for women?
How are women supposed to act?
How is drinking by women related to men’s expectations about women?

3. Spin the Bottle Sex, Lies and Alcohol
How are gender roles enforced?
How is alcohol related to sexual assaults?
What is the double standard when it comes to drinking and sexual assaults?

4. Gender is Pervasive
Gender tends to be present in nearly all of our interactions.
We tend not to notice when gender fits our expectations.
Notions of gender are enforced to conform to those expectations.

5. Gender is Socialized Socialization of gender varies by culture.
Our concepts of gender come from the socialization that we receive from birth.
Baby blankets
Toys

6. Gender Interaction
Men’s networks (who they interact with) are larger and more loosely connected than women’s.
Men’s networks tend to revolve around work while women’s tend to be associated with family and neighborhood.

7. Gender Interaction In conversation,
Men tend to dominate, but not always.
Who dominates the conversation varies by the perceived gender role.

8. Gender Socialization Interaction in conversation
Expectations about how to act and the qualities of men and women
Expectations about alcohol use

9. Gender Roles in the US What do we consider feminine?
What do we consider masculine?
What are the qualities we associate with a leader like the President or a CEO?

10. Feminine
Intelligent
Smart
Compassionate
Polite
Sensitive
Dainty
Caring
Emotional
Listener
Nurturing
Dependent
Passionate
Selfless
Masculine
Confident
Strong
Decisive
Competitive
Assertive
Arrogant
Stubborn
Impartial
Controlling
Persuasive
Aggressive

11. honest / trustworthy
intelligent
friendly
educated
confident
strong
determined
compassionate
good speaker
hard working
responsible
courageous
decisive
Female
Female
Female 170-8
Both 90-86
Male
Male 1-177
Male
Female 175-3
Male
Male
Female
Male
Male

12. Women in Power
To date, thirty-five women have served in the United States Senate, with sixteen serving at this time.
There are currently 74 women serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. (of 435 = 17%)
10 women CEO’s in the 2006 Fortune 500 (2%)

13. Gender Roles
Can men and women cross roles?
What are the consequences?

15. Gender vs Sex
All of the following are based on a continuum – meaning, no category is either male or female, but a combination of both to varying degrees.
Gender is related to how people perceive their femininity or masculinity.
Sex is related to a person’s biological characteristics.
Sexuality is related to who someone is attracted to emotionally, physically, and sexually.

16. Gender and Sexuality Transgender Transsexual Lesbian/Gay/Homosexual
Person who feels comfortable breaking conventional gender roles.
Transsexual
Person who feels they should be the other sex.
Lesbian/Gay/Homosexual
Person who is attracted to someone of the same sex.
Bisexual
Person is attracted to both opposite and same sex.
Straight/Heterosexual
Person who is attracted to someone of the opposite sex.

17. Women-men and Men-women
Various North American Indian groups have/had genders in between male and female.
Men who wear women’s clothes but maintain masculine role such as warrior.
Men who wear women’s clothes as part of spiritual role.
Men who assume the gender role of women and may marry other men, but not always.
Intersexed individuals who are not masculine or feminine.
Women who performed men’s tasks but did not assume male gender roles.
Women who did exclusively men’s tasks but may not wear men’s clothes.
Some married women while others did not.

18. Recap
Gender is pervasive in our society, but we may not see its effects.
There are expectations in society regarding gender roles.
Gender and sexuality are socialized and vary from culture to culture.
Gender and sexuality are not “either or” but exist on a continuum.