Quintanilla

Cynthia Quintanilla

The article discussed in our interview is titled "Gender Wage Gap Reflects the 'Ask'  Gap" (link below). 

Satya Nadella, the CEO of MicrosoftCorp., was asked to give advice to women uncomfortable with asking for pay raises. Nadella responded with, "It's not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along." This comment received a lot of backlash from people stating that he was suggesting women remain submissive and take a back seat to men's pay. Nadella apologized and said it wasn't his intention to answer in that manner. He amended that if a person feels they deserve a raise then that person should definitely ask for one. The article detailed how women are less likely to ask for raises than their male counterparts and continued to discuss reasons why the wage gap continues to exist. 

The person I interviewed believes the wage gap exists, though he was never seen it. He thinks that Nadella would be unfit to answer such a question as was posed to him because of his position as CEO. He cannot micromanage when he has umpteenth things to handle. The interviewee thinks that while Nadella didn't mean to sound insensitive to women's wage issues, he wasn't the best person to know the real problem with gender wage gaps. 

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Nick Nakashian Weekly Interview

Nick Nakashian

            In my interviewee, my interviewee and I spoke about an article written about the comments of the Microsoft CEO, in which he said if you wait for it you will receive a raise, and this brought about questioning in regards to the pay gap between men and women. When asked if the pay gap was a serious issue in the workforce today, my interviewee felt it was. He believed that it was because of old stereotypes and traditions, and felt that if you do a job you get paid for it, the exact amount you are supposed to be paid. The article also brought up a term called the "ask gap" referring to the large amount of women that simple do not ask for a raise for whatever reason. When asked if this was a major cause in the gender pay gap my interviewee believed that it could have some effect, but the solution to the problem could not be as simple as just getting women to ask for a raise.

 

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Renee Martin

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For this assignment I googled gender, found a story about the CEO of MIcrosoft making a remark about the pay gap between men and women. During a conference he was asked for advice to give to women who wanted a raise, to which he said something to the effect of "It isn't about asking but being confident that you will be offered a raise if you work hard enough." This sparked a debate about whether or not he said this as a cop out or if it was a bigger statement about women and their place among the opportunity for advancement. 

Kim Simonds

Interview about : Minneapolis allows gender-neutral restrooms.

My interview was with a female, located on Fresno State campus. The topic of this interview is in regards to a news article was published in September 22, 2014. The heading of the article is "Minneapolis formally allows gender-neutral bathrooms." I informed the interviewee what the article stated, that in Minneapolis, the state council passed a motion to remove all the public bathroom signs that stated "men" and "women" on the bathroom doors, and that new signs that state "unisex" or "family." I asked the interviewee if she approved of this change, that the restrooms would be for unisex or family. She claims that she is okay with the new change, but only if they are individual restrooms that do not share any stalls. She would not want a male sharing the restroom with her. I also mentioned that the family restrooms would help shares the responsibilities of the parents with small children. She thought that it was a wonderful idea that the child of the same sex as the parent would be taken into the restroom, that fathers can now share the responsibility.

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Eskelsen Weekly Participation

For this week's interview, I summarized an article titled "Workers happier with members of same gender, study finds," in the Business section of The Boston Globe. The article described main findings of a study published in an academic journal in the summer of 2014. The study found three main things: 1) employees are happier when they work with people of the same sex; 2) workplaces where both men and women work together are more productive than single-sex workplaces; and 3) women report that they have a difficult time getting their ideas noticed when they work with men, and when they do become assertive they get accused of being the "b" word. My respondent said that she was not surprised to hear about women employees being called the "b" word and also that employees are happier when they work with people of the same sex. When asked why she was not surprised to hear that employees like to work with members of the same sex, she said that the possibility of romantic relationships between them decreases, with the exception of homosexual individuals, which increases the professionalism of the relationship(s). This would increase their happiness.

Cara Eskelsen

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Mellott Participation

Kalena Mellott

For this weeks participation the story that I selected to conduct an interview for was about a school in Lincoln, Nebraska that is choosing to change its classroom policy to be gender inclusive.  This would mean that students would not be divided up as boys or girls ever and instead may be divided up by who likes different things.  The individual that I interviewed felt that this was unnecessary, especially at the lower age levels.  The interviewee felt that by addressing the class by saying 'boys and girls' or having them line up or group up by boys and girls there was really no problem.  My interviewee felt that while it was cool to have a class name to not use the terms boys and girls was not necessary.

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Labit - In Class Participation

I interviewed a 27 year old male from Fresno. I had found an article from ABC news regarding a school age girl from Arizona that had written a letter to the Dicks Sporting company regarding their recent basketball catalogue. The little girl was upset that there were no women athletes represented in the entire catalogue, the only girl being pictured was in the audience of one advertisement and there were cheerleaders pictured on the coupons. The little girl wrote to the company with her concerns and about how girls can play basketball; she plays for teams and is a big women's basketball fan. The interviewee was supportive of the young girl for speaking out for what she thought was right as well as her father who supported her and got the letter out to the public via is Twitter feed. The interviewee remarked on how the media can be directly reached these days through the use of sites like Twitter and Facebook and people should take advantage of it. The interviewee mentioned that without it the letter would probably stop at the regional level and not get the traction it deserves.

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Kayla Forte- Interview

For my interview this week I spoke with a Caucasian female who is a student at Fresno State. I read an article about New York law and how they are trying to change what is needed when someone would like to identify with the opposite gender as they were born in to. My interviewee stated that she believes that you should not need to get surgery or undergo any operations to identify with the opposite gender. She believes that everyone has a right to express themselves the way they choose and they should not need to prove themselves to anyone. She thinks it will be a hard thing to adapt to, just as it was with the gay and lesbian community, but she thinks it will be a positive change for the future. She believes it will promote equality and acceptance among society.

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Online Class Discussion Based On The Chapter 5 "Social Construction" Sara Hernandez

Sara Hernandez

Now-a-days things are different, for example men can marry men and women can marry women. Most people today accept the fact that love is love no matter the gender. Back in the days things like same sex marriage or just same sex relationships, transsexual, or transgender, gay, or lesbian, was not acceptable in society. Now, all these things are becoming socially accepted mostly because the generations of today are more educated and open minded about things like these. The days of judging and discriminating others because of who they are gender wise, are over. The things that were"not right"  in society back then, are okay now. Being gay or being lesbian is seen more and more in our society today, that people are not shocked. We have learned to accept that men don't have to be men, and women don't have to be women. Like mention in the chapter 5 each gender doesn't have a specific role, they just are who they wanna be, sometimes depending on their culture. What society calls gender roles, are now played by any individual no matter who they are. 

 

Doing Gender

Ricardo Navarro

Gender seems as if it is being "done" in all aspects of my life. It seems as if categorizing and pushing social cues happen at a very young age within my family. When someone is expecting a baby in our family, we begin treating them on the basis of their primary sex characteristics even before they are born. If they have male parts, we buy them toys and blue clothes. If they are girls we buy them pink clothes. As they grow up we begin to shape them according to their sex. If they are boy, we play sports with them. If they are girls we give them dolls and tell them to play house with the other girls. If either of them cross (like the boys playing with dolls)  the older  adults in my family generally get upset or mad. As children grow older and their secondary sec characteristics begin to show, the older adults also begin to judge. One of my cousins was a "late bloomer" and I actually heard his mom say "I wonder if he is going to stay like a girl forever." She said this just because he did not reach puberty in the same time his brothers did. While these judgement's seem very rude, it is perfectly acceptable to my older family who are "traditional" and 65 years and older. It seems that "doing gender" begins at a very young age in my family, but that is changing extensively. I now have two little cousins from different sides of my family, they are both female and enrolled in baseball. Neither of their parents base their actions or judgement's on the children's primary sex characteristics.

Doing Gender - Erin Cavazos

Erin Cavazos

Doing Gender

Doing gender is something we all learn as infants. It becomes second nature to us and it is impossible to stop once it is learned. I see people doing gender all day every day of my life. One example is washing dishes. When I lived at my parents house my mom, my sister and I always did the dishes but my dad never did. When I would confront him about it he would complain that he worked hard and didn't have time or was too tired for dishes. Looking back I see that we were all unknowingly submitting to gender roles. Although my mom works, my dad is the primary bread winner. As a result my mom, my sister and I are left to do the housework. My mom even ironed and prepared his cloths for him every day. Now that I live with my boyfriend I try to limit gender roles to a minimum but I still find myself arguing with my boyfriend to do the dishes.

Another experience I had was when I went to a family gathering and all of my little cousins were playing together. There was a good amount of boys and girls and they were playing with all sorts of toys. My nephew decided to put on a toy pearl necklace and I was shocked by the reactions he received. The other little kids did not care or say anything but the adults immediately told him to take them of because that was for girls and he was a boy. They told him to take it off and go play with boy toys. These are the experiences that molds us to doing gender. It has gone so far that we apply it to our pets. People put collars and outfits on their pets that are gender appropriate. Their pillows are usually a certain colors too. Animals do not care about gender and gender roles yet we do gender when it comes to the things we buy them.

Online Class Participation

Ileana Corral

     - The way that I see gender "done" in my daily life is by seeing different types of people with their own style that relates to their personality. Some people, like girls, certain girls wear make up to show their identity and wear clothing that would reflect "feminine" features and for men they wear certain outfits to go with their personality as well, from sporty to a tucked t-shirt and slacks. People having their own style that reflects their identity is somewhat socially accepted and somewhat socially ostracized, by this I mean that certain styles are accepted because fashion is very important to certain groups in this society and it is somewhat socially ostracized because some people do not accept people by the way they dress and sometimes they do not fit the norm. Other ways that I see gender being "done" is by the way people react to certain things and how they accomplish things. What I mean with this statement is that some people would react with different emotions with certain situation, for an example, women typically will have more of an emotion when dealing with hardships, excitement, etc. and on the other hand, men typically hold on to those emotions so that they won't be seen being vulnerable or too "out there". I believe that people have different responses when it comes to "doing" gender because of different institutions in their lives that helped them shape the way they see, feel, think, etc. about gender. They also tend to make personal decisions based on their experiences when they make friends, meet new people etc. they tend to take that into consideration and based on their point of view, they decide whether to accept the gender structure of those people.  

Eduardo Gutierrez

As for me and my own social experience, I have seen gender be "done" in a way that pushes males to be strong, confident, and hard working. As for women, society has made it seem that we must view women as the keeper of the home and the care taker of the children. For example, I was raised in a family that understood each person of the household has a job to with hold. As the mother, she should make sure there is food prepared for the family to eat healthy on a regular basis. On the other hand, the male figure or father figure was in charge of working and earning money to purchase food and other necessities. Living like this in my house hold has always been tradition and was seen as an agreement that was held as a family. Being the "Man" around the house usually stemmed from being the one who makes they money for the family and is in charge of the families expenses. Now a days, many families choose not live by this traditional belief, but instead choose to split up the responsibilities of the home. As for my own experience, it was tradition and to this day I can say that it has kept my family as close as we are, because we understand what it takes to stay together successfully and strong as a family should be. When I was a young boy, my brother and I would spend hours in the hot sun helping my father work around the house no matter what ever home activities it may consist of. For example, planting trees, flowers, digging holes for sprinkler installment and repair. These simple jobs and tasks would never be asked of my younger sister simply because it did not seem to be her responsibility to learn the importance of working out side in the sun all day with myself, my brother, and my father. As a young boy I can say that I have never thought anything to be wrong with how society does gender, but instead it seemed normal and it was how I was raised to view gender. I do believe modern society will view this as an ostracized view of gender, but I am also in agreement simply because every successful family does not work this way and in many cases the women is in charge of her family and their families well being.  

Peter Rice - Weekly Participation: Doing Gender

From the perspective of a man, I can say with confidence that I see plenty of other men "doing gender" on a daily basis. A perfect example of this is whenever I visit the gym at the rec center. Every time I go in there, the room reeks of ego. There are always plenty of people grunting and showing their manly side: it seems as if everyone is trying to outdo one another to prove themselves as the alpha. This is the case because society tells us that men have to be big and strong to be appealing. It creates an insecurity within a lot of people, driving them to push harder to become stronger. We all aspire to be the manly men portrayed on TV and through the media. Although this is difficult to achieve, our culture and out society tells us that having these manly traits is what makes us truly men. The media tells us that the best men are super handsome with dope abs.

Online Class

Brandon Guthier

Timothy Kubal

Sociology: Sex and Gender

October 9, 2014

Social Construction Discussion

            I can think of quite a few incidents where I can recall gender being "done" in my daily life. For example, I am always the one who is given the task to fill up any holes in our backyard that have been made by our dogs. When I started realizing that nobody else but me was asked to carry out this task every time a hole reappeared, I started telling myself, " I wasn't the one who decided to let the dogs out and not watch them in the first place. Why do I have to pay the consequences for something that I did not do? Why not make the person who is responsible for this fill up the holes instead?" It makes more sense to me now after reading about how gender is sometimes "done" all around us. It is seen as the norm of masculinity for men to perform tasks such as shoveling a patch of dirt into a wheelbarrow and carrying a heavy load of dirt over to the hole to be filled up. Society views this as normal and socially acceptable. They would have a harder time accepting the norm that a woman should perform such tasks. Society might believe that women ought to be more involved with dusting, laundry, and other housecleaning tasks rather than filling up a bunch of dirt holes. Other examples are when I am asked to mow the lawn on the weekends and balance out my own checkbook. Both of these tasks are viewed as something a more masculine person would perform. It has become the norm to see men rather than women mow a lawn, because that is all that society sees. Therefore, society adapts itself to this view and eventually views it as socially acceptable. However, the idea of always allowing a man to balance checkbooks and handle finances is viewed as being socially ostracized. Earlier, Michael Kimmel described in his text that men are seen as being much better at math then women. According to Kimmel, this would lead to women making poor financial decisions that resulted in a man taking over all financial decisions and tasks. However, this surely cannot be the norm for every  woman. Whether the way it is "done" is seen as socially acceptable or socially ostracized, there is no denying the fact that gender is being "done" all around us every minute of every day.

Nick Nakashian: Class Participation Prompt

Nick Nakashian

Gender roles are filled very day, and often if we don't take a step back to think about our everyday lives, we will miss the ways in which we participate in gender. I work in the produce department of a large grocery store cooperation. In our department we have both men and women on the team. However, I feel that there is a definite separation between the work for men and the work for women. Most of the men in our department work out on the floor, working with the displays and keeping them stocked. This position requires a lot of physical labor; moving heavy boxes filled with products, and unloading delivery loads. All the women in the department work either in the back, chopping fruits and vegetables, making juice, or in the floral department. There are no men that work full time in floral, and even when I was hired I was half joking asked if I wouldn't mind doing feminine work in floral if they needed help.

I feel that this department represents a very traditional and almost outdated way of doing gender; letting the "big boys" do all the heavy and physical work, while the girls prepare food and decorate flowers. And to most people there really seams to be nothing wrong with this setup, perhaps most people would agree with letting the men do all the heavy lifting. However, I believe that it is the small situations like this that translate large-scale gender roles and expectations.  

Chapter 5 & "Doing" Gender-Participation

In my life, I've seen gender "done" a lot. When it really comes to my attention is when, as the book describes, it's situational; I understand that a lot of things can constitute as someone doing gender, but it stands out the most when it conflicts with the person in other ways (to me, at least). I had a friend in high school, a girl, who would act passive and ignorant around men when she wanted them to sexualize her (and only sexualize her).  In other areas (including when she was with a boyfriend who she had been with for a long time), she was more strong-willed an opinionated, "did gender" as a strong female voice rather than the air-headed, simpering sex object. Men's reactions to these personas usually favored the high-pitched voiced, ignorant version to the intelligent, witty, and blunt version of her.

Another example that sticks out in my mind was of a gay boy I had gone to school with, and was friends with for a while. He dressed in tight clothes, had a lot of piercings, wore makeup on occasion, and usually wore his hair long. Sometimes, people would say that they couldn't tell if he was a boy or a girl—that would lead them to be disturbed or sometimes even angered by him. But many of the things that he did, what he wore, and so on, reflected both his gender as a gay male and from his subculture (he was what the kids would call "emo," and his clothes reflected that of a typical "emo" boy). Although people gave him a chance later on, initial reactions to the way he expressed his gender were overwhelmingly negative, and, as I said, people seemed almost angry when they couldn't tell at first glance what gender he identified as.

-Alexandrien Garcia

Class Attendance

Álvaro Sosa
I see gender done culturally in my society. Societies in principal
want their culture to remain unchanged to be preserved across time and
thus gender must remain the same because it is culture after all; a
specific way of behavior in my point of view. But we all know gender
is evolving as we speak since we can look back in history and see all
the changes gender has gone through. Culturally installed believes and
thus culturally installed femininities and masculinities tend to not
be able to perceive their flows. Sayings are a big part of the culture
of México because they are anchors that hold change constant. So I
still hear sayings such as "men do not cry." But this is absurd
because we see men crying everywhere and yet some say men don't cry.
Thus in this manner society creates a false definition of gender based
not on the facts but rather in the echo it has. Thus I am against all
of these sayings. Sayings are nothing but the beginning of a
children's process to learn their gender. The people around these
children are there just to remind them of the established norms
because gender must remain unchanged as culture has to remain
unchanged.


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Sosa, Álvaro
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Kayla Forte

Kayla Forte – Weekly Participation

The way I see gender "done" in my daily life is the actions and the way we go about living our lives. There is said to be gender roles that vary across cultures. These gender roles are learned through socialization and form us into the people we are today. The typical stereotypes here in the United States is that the men are supposed to be these big strong guys that are going to provide for the family. "Men don't cry" is another way we see men being scrutinized for having emotion. As for the females, we are not supposed to be in jobs of heavy labor, rather they would like us to be home taking care of our children and cleaning the house. For myself, I consider myself to be a pretty dynamic female in the sense that I have all the "roles" a typical female should have but I also express some of the traits you would see more in a male role. These gender roles have too much impact on the ways that they affect each and every one of us and it is sad to see people try to be something they are not. I would hope that as we grow and develop that we can be more open and understanding to the possibilities that not all people are born to be male or female, they are just people and how they live and how they view the world is completely dependent on them, not these "roles" that we have grown to know. 

Attendance credit

Darnell Taylor

Attendance Credit

One of the main ways I see gender done in my life is when it comes to feelings and emotions. I was raised being taught that if you are a male, you are expected to always be strong and not show emotions. Many of the men I know feel like they are not supposed to cry or show weakness because that is seen as feminine. This trait is seen as a good thing in this country, but at the same time that is a sad thing for the world to celebrate. Another way I see gender done in society is like when women are expected to take on the role of cook, house keeper, and also take care of the kids. This is an expectation in society and I think it is a bad thing because that is a lot to ask of a person. 

Replacement for In-Class Interview

Darnell Taylor 

Interview Replacement for Class:

I interviewed a friend of mine, and she thought it was acceptable for people to choose their desired gender so they do not have to stay with their biological gender. In the article it talked about how New Yorkers are voting on a law to legalize a gender change on a person's birth certificate without actually having the gender reassignment surgery or hormone therapy. A person can basically have their gender changed as long as they fill out the paperwork and have it signed by either a doctor, nurse, social worker, or a psychologist just to name a couple options. My friend basically thought that people should be able to choose their gender because it only ever really affects their life. It never makes a difference in anyone else's life. 

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Class Participation

I see gender being "done" throughout my day through the various ways people hold themselves as well as how they react to one another. I feel that a lot of it has to do with the way society has constructed its' thoughts on how to be either female or male. You can easily tell what gender a certain person is trying to portray just by the clothes they are wearing and the way they walk. For example, when I was in high school there was a guy who grew out his hair and dressed like a girl. I thought he was a girl to begin with until fellow classmates told me otherwise. When guys would check him out, to then find out he was a girl they would threaten him. Saying they wanted to fight just because they were now looked at as gay and fighting was the only way to win back their masculinity. Most guys will react negatively when faced with the idea that their masculinity is threatened. You don't hear to many stories of women reacting as negatively when their femininity is on the line. When people strongly believe that they have certain standards to meet to display themselves as a certain gender they become narrow minded, offensive, and aggressive when threatened. When people are more open to the idea that gender is flexible and are comfortable with who they are, people then become understanding and accepting of one another.

Ashley Trembley

Stephanie Grieb

Stephanie Grieb

It seems that gender is "done" in different ways like the clothes we wear, the way we are supposed to act, certain tasks we are expected to do, or our hobbies.  For example, men are expected to be the stronger ones and they should be interested in video games and sports like football and wrestling; women are expected to be more fragile.  You wouldn't expect to see a man wearing a dress very often; also some men may be judged for even wearing the color pink.  However, these are only stereotypes.  People are changing and just because a woman is more "masculine" or a man is more "feminine" it doesn't mean that there is something wrong with a person.

            I think that one major example of this would be how men and women are expected to look.  Stereotypically, men are expected to be taller and to be more muscular than women and these days, the media is pressuring women to be smaller than men.  Many would look at couple weirdly if the woman is taller than the man, but why is this?  I admit that as a woman who is tall for her age, I cannot imagine myself being with a shorter man, but at the same time I wonder why that is.

Mellott Sociology 131 Attendance Participation 10/6-10/8

Kalena Mellott

The way in which I see gender "done" in my daily life is the way in which many of my friends and I are very outspoken.  Sometimes this is socially accepted for us women to be outspoken and other times it is not.  While in a class and having a discussion it is often not looked at strangely that my friends and I are participating, giving opinions, or leading the discussion.  However, when I go to referee soccer games and have to tell the coach to stop yelling at us referees that are doing the game many of the coaches give me a look that says, "wow that audacity of this girl".  Many might think that it's not because I am a girl but it is  more because of the job, however, I have seen the same coach be respectful of the male referees who told him the same thing.  As females my friend and I were expected to take the verbal abuse without comment and it was expected of the male referees to say something.  This happens all the time and it is definitely all about gender. 

Quintanilla

Cynthia Quintanilla

Gender is done as we perform daily tasks. Since babies are born as a clean slate and later learn to behave into socially acceptable sex-based roles, what we do after infancy is defined as masculine or feminine behaviors. Realistically, our behaviors are simply actions, it is people that identify those behaviors and gender oriented. A woman and a man can both take command of a group of people when working on a project, but these behaviors will be categorized differently. The woman will be considered "bossy" while the man will be considered "a good leader." It seems that the patriarchy has already established a list of things by which to define men and women and SO HELP THEM you will be labeled regardless if you follow the gender stereotypes provided. A woman painting her nails will receive positive reinforcement about her behavior and will continue to paint her nails, but a man that paints his nails will be, at best, questioned and, at worst, ridiculed. This type of social feedback reinforces the type of things we do to fit into society's gender construct.

It seems as though society is incapable of viewing people as simply humans that perform actions and instead insists on dividing people based on their genitals into two different categories thinking that they each need a different type of training. Unfortunately, the type of training one group gets is deemed inferior. And to think, it's all by design!

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Marisa Diaz 

   

   In daily life gender is "done" in many ways and some may find certain ways socially acceptable and some ways unacceptable, because everything is always changing not everyone will always agree on the same ideas of gender. Being raised by men, daily I am criticized for not being "lady like".

            For example, recently I moved into new place, because I usually had a roommate I never decorated much, being as I no longer have a roommate I decorated the way I felt showed my personality, however whenever family and friends come over they say things such as "I expected it to be more girly" or "it doesn't seem like a girl lives here" and my favorite is "why does it seem like this is a man's house".  Because of their own idea of gender they expected to see pink and purple everywhere and doilies laid on the tables, which is not even close to what my house looks like, but the complete opposite, which in their eyes is socially unacceptable because it doesn't depict a women's house in their eyes.

             Yet there are many examples we can look at. The other day I and a group of friends were watching a television show on the addiction to body building. When they showed a man who loved to body build my friends stated that there was not anything wrong with a man loving the activity, however when they showed a women who also loved to body build that is when we hit a difference opinion. They said it didn't look right for women to be so masculine, this shows that the ideas of gender will never be fully agreed on; Women being strong and muscular are socially unacceptable because it is men who are seen as strong and muscular.  This can be seen in daily life, For example at work when I am told by a manager to load and unload trucks there is always a male who offers to do it instead because they believe men are the ones who are strong, and women should not be doing heavy lifting, However many may have a different view.

Seeing Gender in daily life

My husband and I volunteered to help my best friend and her husband move a few months ago. My best friends in-laws were also helping. After the organizing was completed I went to pick up a box and the father-in-law promptly removed it from my hands and said, "you're a girl you shouldn't be lifting things"

My quick instinct would be to take offense, but I didn't. He didn't mean anything mean or hurtful by it. Part of his definition of the female gender was that the males do the heavy lifting. In his minds eye he was being a gentleman and setting a good example for my husband and his son. 

Gender is a very broad topic with a lot of instances of possible conflict, especially since it is redefined throughout time. My husband, being a younger male of a different generation has absolutely no qualms with handing me a box and expecting me to lift heavy items. The father-in-law wasn't being sexist, in my opinion, or trying to keep me down. He just honestly doesn't believe women should have to lift heavy boxes (I know because I literally asked him why he didn't want me helping with the lifting).

Is this socially acceptable? Depends on what age group, location, and situation of society you are part of. There are so many subtleties to take into account. Does it make me less of a woman if I honor the father-on-laws wishes of not helping with the lifting? Does it make me rude to blatantly disregard his wishes? I don't know what the exact right answer was, but I tried to find a compromise. I know i'm strong, my husband and friends know I'm strong and capable and I had nothing to prove. So, I stuck with organizing items, moving everything outside ready for the men to put in the moving truck, and going with my best friend to get lunch for everyone (the father-in-law paid). Men and women have different gender roles at different times. As the book does a good job of pointing out, they are fluid not set in stone.

Allen

Anna Allen

There are many different ways that I've seen people "doing" gender.  Guys, most of the time, seem to wear their hair short, while women usually have their hair long.  I saw a young man with a few sparse braids in his hair in the library today (it was a look a bit reminiscent of Hiccup from the How to Train Your Dragon sequel, actually), which was a little unusual, but I don't think it was something that would cause a great deal of alarm in our student body.    Women wear calf-high and thigh-high boots, whereas you don't see too many boots on guys unless they have a Western look to them.  Guys seem more likely to carry the big backpacks, whereas girls seem more inclined to bags on one shoulder. 

There have been many women wearing sundresses around campus, which is something that, on a male, would be much more likely to get challenges from other people, since it is much less socially accepted right now.  I was talking to a friend of mine who is transitioning from male to female, and she was telling me that she gets jumped for wearing things like a nice blouse to go see a friend in public, so obviously there still exists a thin line between what is considered acceptable for a biological male to wear, and what is not.  With women, that line is not so easy to cross--they can wear clothing that would be perfectly acceptable on a guy with no problem (T-shirt, jeans, sneakers, collared shirt, etc.), and even if they wore something really perceived as masculine, like a full suit to a formal event or something, they might be on the receiving end of some negative comments, but I doubt there'd be people trying to throw their frying pans at them for their attire.

Karanvir Gill

Karanvir Gill

I see gender "done" in many ways in my daily life. You can be a male or female, there are expectations. Since I am a male, I will talk about my gender is done in real life. If I do not dress nicely, then there is the perception that I am a lazy bum who does not care about proper etiquette. This is socially accepted in society because proper etiquette is associated with getting jobs. Also, big business's like banks do not have people wearing football jerseys, but suits. Gender is also seen when talking about physical activity. I am expected to be strong or fit. It is assumed that I can bench press 200 pounds and that I care about looking good, physically. I believe this is viewed positively and also ostracized in society. It is viewed positively because there is an issue of obesity in America, and 'fit' people, or people that put an effort into healthy eating which leads to good physical appearance. But this can also be viewed negatively as guys are pressured into getting the attractive 6-pack, which leads to crash dieting, and less self confidence in your body.

In my daily life I see people going about there lives dressing as a girl or a boy. I see it as a normal thing and the majority of society sees it as a socially accepted display of gender. A man dresses like a man and a girl dresses like a girl. I don't see anything else that can be referred to as socially ostracized. A socially accepted display of gender is what I come across every day; a man dressing like a man and a girl dressing like a girl. 

Weekly Participation

Jessica Creager

I see gender done in various ways in my own life. As a female, I am expected to participant in these gender roles. For example, I feel as I am expected to dress nicely, do my hair, and do my make-up. If I don't, it is interpreted as I don't care about myself and thus am not necessarily taken seriously, even if I am just going to class. I feel like if females dressed as relaxed as males do, we would definitely get those weird looks. Also, I do gender in my job and my volunteer position as well. I work in retail, a woman's clothing store, which is very stereotypical for a young woman. If I worked in a male dominated area, such as a hardware store, I would not get that same respect. It is also expected for females to be more caring and participate in volunteer work(my whole peer education team are females). I also feel in general, I am not allowed to express that I am stressed from all the things I have going on because I would just be criticized as weak or lazy. But if a male was to express these same difficulties, people would take his comments as more serious and would empathize. 

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Mr.Kubal,

I do not see a "pencil" under the blog, how do I go about responding to the classmates posts?

Kim Simonds

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Sociology Weekly Participation October 7, 2014-Doing Gender

Kimberly Simonds

As a female, in my daily life, "going gender" means that I have to clean the house, wash the clothes, make the meals while juggling my hectic school schedule in the process. My "work" week is Monday through Sunday, and typically starts at 5:30 am to 11:30 pm. My husband works a full time job, from 6 am to 2:30 pm Monday through Friday. Once he arrives home, his day is complete. That is all he expects to do. Most of society sees that my schedule is not work. It is what a woman is "supposed" to do, minus the school situation. I strongly feel that it is sturdily accepted by society. I have seen couples where it is completely different and the roles are reversed. This is going against the grain in how gender is done. I hear the low whispers of how the man of the relationship needs to take the upper hand and have his significant other do the "womanly chores."

Weekly Participation "Doing Gender" By Kim Simonds

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Margaret Klassen

I see gender "done" all the time in my everyday life. The biggest instance is my own life, I am a female and so I am expected of course to work and go to school , but I also get to come home and complete the second shift. My husband works and take a class or two and when he gets home he excepts me to cook and have the house clean while he gets to just sit around and watch t.v. Another example is my in-laws the mother cooks and cleans the whole house while the father watches t.v. and drinks beer , sure he mows the law and trims some of the bushes, but he usually just sits around. In my husbands family the women do all the cooking and cleaning , while the men do the yard work.

Eduardo Gutierrez

This week we were asked to give our interviewee a list of characteristics and to label them either masculine, feminine, or both. My interviewee was a female and when she rated them she seemed to connect more aggressive words to masculinity and more compassionate words to femininity. However, there were some words that she labeled feminine that I would have guessed she would have labeled masculine. Its possible that we view these characteristics differently for many different reasons. I feel our upbringings shape us. I was brought up with one older brother and my dad taught us the way "men" do things. However she was brought up with an older sister, and older brother, and a younger brother. She may have taken on roles and responsibilities as a middle child that would cause her to identify words of responsibility with feminism.

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weekly participation- Lacey Missaghian

Weekly participation by  Lacey Missaghian

This week for our in class interviews we were given a list of words and had to decipher if we felt they were masculine or feminine. I was both pleasantly surprised and disappointed. I was more pleasantly surprised with my interviewees responses. I didn't expect him to be so open minded and me to be so brainwashed by society and so ridged with my ideals. I feel like in this exercise I learned more about myself than who I was interviewing. For most responses we agreed but for others where I thought the obvious answer was one way of another he chose neutral. It did notice how some synonyms of happy had more if a feminine connotation than others. I actually really enjoyed the exercise this week!

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Ileana Corral

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Summary: In this Interview, I asked the interviewee if he thought that a specific list of vocabulary terms were feminine or masculine. They were to rate the term on a scale of 1-100 with 100 being feminine and 50 being both feminine and masculine and 1 being masculine. The interviewee did not specifically rate the term but they did rate it as masculine and feminine.

Jose Guerrero - Weekly Participation

This week in class we had to read out loud some words and they had to rate them on if they were feminine or masculine. My interviewee i think was open minded and gave her honest opinions about every question asked. She said her friends and family would have answered the questions just like she did. 

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Eduardo Gutierrez

Allen

Anna Allen
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My interviewee and I looked over a list of traits and tried to decide which were "masculine" and which were "feminine."  On a few, we disagreed slightly, but for the most part we were in concurrence that they were traits typically expressed in both males and females.  In most, we identified those that were generally identified more with one gender or the other by society as a whole.  The interviewee felt that traits like "helpful" and "moody" were more attributable to women than men, and also that "shy" and "unpredictable" could best be applied to men, rather than women.  For the most part, the consensus was that the traits were more dependent upon individual personality than they were on gender. 

This is in agreement with a lot of what was discussed in Chapter 4 of our textbooks, especially when talking about researchers like Gilligan, whose point was very similar to that of the author Kimmel when he says that there seem to be more differences among men and among women than there are between men and women.  Gilligan is quoted in the book explaining that her findings were "'not based on any premise of inherent differences between the sexes, but solely on the different nature of their experiences'" (98). 

A current event that I remembered when reading the text this week was a commercial for Wiserhood, in which a man, when trusted with his date's purse, puts it in a bag so that he will not be seen holding a feminine accessory, and is applauded by male onlookers.  Not only is it reminiscent of the male bonding discussed in previous chapters, but it also hearkens to the table based on Terman's and Miles's M-F scale produced in The Authoritarian Personality. I remembered how the book describes those who are the least secure in their masculinity, and the sorts of behaviors in which they believed they would engage in order to maintain the appearance of masculinity.
Here is the link to the commercial on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuScm9FZPmQ

Hernandez, Sara W/P #1

This week in class we were ask to read some words out to our interviewee and asked what they though in regards to feminine and masculine traits. The interviewee was asked to rate the words as followed, 100 totally feminine, 50 half masculine half feminine and 0 totally masculine. My interviewee answered fairly on mostly all the words, I could  tell that he was a very open minded, and thoughtful person by some of the ratings on some of the words. However he did mention to me that he grew up with only women, and he said he was basing his answers of how his sisters and mom are. 

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Weekly Participation - Erin Cavazos

Erin Cavazos

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This week we were given a list of words that we were supposed to ask our interviewee to rate on a scale of 0-100. 0 was totally masculine, 50 was equally masculine and feminine, and 100 was totally feminine. My interviewee was male and when presented with the list he did not rate anything totally masculine or totally feminine, so nothing was a 0 or 100. He did however say that some stuff was weighted as more masculine or more feminine. For example, he said that self-reliant was a 30 meaning that it was more masculine than feminine.  He said that he believed this because of how society and media has put an emphasis on the need for men to be self-reliant. On the contrary he said that shy was more of an 80 to 75 because women tend to be shyer whereas men are more outspoken. He also gave independent a 50 because men have always been independent but know women are more determined to also be independent. Ultimately his friends and family would agree with most of his answers but of course there would also be some difference in opinions. These are just a few examples of the long list of words we discussed.

Public Opinion on Masculinity and Femininity

Weekly Participation

Ricardo Navarro

My interviewee is female and believed that masculinity and femininity mostly belonged to the common stereotype's. However, she did feel that these stereotypical  answers are changing. When asked about being "shy" she gave the most insight into her thoughts. She felt that women were more scared to walk alone more than men and that men were more likely to go out alone. When men go out alone, they have a smaller chance of getting kidnapped. This causes women to become more shy when they are alone.  When asked why, she said because society alters the way males and females think and grow. If it wasn't for soo many girls getting kidnapped when they are alone then they would not be so shy to walk home alone. 

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Weekly Participation 10/5/2014

Brandon Guthier

Timothy Kubal

Weekly Participation 

October 5, 2014

            This week, the topic that we went over in class was about how some psychologists use a type of test to determine whether somebody is masculine or feminine based on certain types of traits they are asked about. Based on their responses, these psychologists believe that they are able to determine whether somebody is seen as being masculine or feminine. This week's interview lasted just over four minutes. Following the example set by the psychologists' survey experiment, I asked my interviewee what he thought about certain traits. Were they seen as masculine or feminine to this person? One particular answer I found interesting was that he believed the trait of loyalty was split 50-50 between masculine and feminine. He explained his reasoning by saying that in this generation, he has noticed that people of both sexes are not very loyal to one another.

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Sosse Kendoyan

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An interview was conducted on Monday September 29, 2014. The interview was a little bit different this time. For this interview I asked my interviewee about her opinion regarding how masculine and feminine are particular traits, and my interviewee rated them on a 100 point scale where 100 was totally feminine, 50 being half masculine, and 0 being totally masculine. According to my interviewee, she rated 100 for the following traits : helpful. defends own beliefs, moody, affectionate, unpredictable, cheerful, and sympathetic. Where as she scaled 0 for self reliant, shy, athletic, assertive, strong personality, forceful, willing to take risks, and secretive. The remaining 15 traits, which were the majority of the traits, she rated them 50. when I asked my interviewee why she rated accordingly, her response was that for her that's how she was raised, she's been taught that women should always be happy, and that's why she thinks that women are happier than men. Also, she mentioned that the reason why she rated men jealous was because of her past experiences with men. She thinks men are more jealous than women are. And finally, when I asked her opinion if her friends and family would answer differently to this questions, she said that yes they would most probably answer differently since everybody has his own belief and opinion nowadays. 

Sosse Kendoyan

Stephanie Grieb Weekly Response

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This week's interview was a little bit different.  We were to ask the interviewee to rate a list of traits from 0 to 100.  0 being completely masculine and 100 being completely feminine.  I used the traits: Aggressive (0), shy (50), jealous (86), compassionate (50), leader (0), athletic (50), and independent (46).  As shown as the ratings in parenthesis, there are some that the interviewee has rated as completely masculine, however, he did not rate any as completely feminine.  I found this interesting because I chose some traits that are usually labeled as feminine like shy and compassionate and those were both rated as 50.

Cuevas

karla cuevas

When I asked my interviewee to rate the traits as relatively masculine or feminine on a 100 point scale with 100 being feminine 50 being half and 0 being masculine it became a little difficult to keep track so she was simply answering using masculine feminine or 50/50.

some of her responses were what you would expect from society to answer like athletic, assertive and forceful being masculine and happy, theatrical, and sensitive to other's needs being feminine. There were several responses like jealous, secretive, and truthful that fell in the middle when I asked the interviewee why she thought that jealous was both feminine and masculine she responded by saying because women are jealous too. If we look back in society when women didn't have a voice and male dominance was the social norm then some of these responses would have been either all masculine or all feminine with nothing falling down the middle.

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Weekly Participation

This week, my partner and I were asked to rate certain traits and characteristics as being either "masculine" or "feminine". We did so using a scale of 0 to 100: 0 being completely masculine, and 100 being completely feminine. As my interviewee went through the list, she would sometimes come up with an example to help illustrate whatever answer she gave. The interview progressed, and I noticed that my partner didn't give any of the traits extreme ratings; Most were within 15 points of the neutral 50. I found myself agreeing with most of her answers, as most of our generation has a kind of collective stereotyped idea about each characteristic. This is of course because society tells us so. We were unfortunately unable to get to the end of the questionnaire due to time scarcity.

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Quintanilla

Cynthia Quintanilla 

    I presented the interviewee with a list of traits which she would then label as feminine or masculine as seen through the eyes of society. The original question consisted of a rating scale of 1-100 but that proved to be less effective with the time allotted. 

    The interviewee labeled self-reliance, independence, powerful and things similar as male traits. She responded that feminine traits were more like flattery, jealousy, sensitive, caregiving, etc. In today's progressive age (slowly but surely) these words are becoming more unisex whereas in the past the word "self-reliant" would have been heavily and- more than likely- solely attributed to men.  

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Nick Nakashian Weekly Participation

Nick Nakashian

            In my interview, I presented my interviewee with a list of personality traits and on a scale of 0-10 (10 being most feminine and 0 being most masculine) my interviewee told me were the traits fell in line with gender. Many of the traits fell toward the middle, seeing them as either masculine or feminine, and the ones that went toward one extreme were the ones you would expect. My interviewee felt it was difficult to answer these questions because as a sociology major, she knows what is expected of the answers. She felt that it would be much more interesting to perform this type of interview with someone that is not familiar with this type of survey or even this branch of sociology in order to get a more honest outcome. In the chapter this week we went through gender roles and some of the sections tried to illustrate that gender is a product of the world around us, rather than innate biology we are born with. This survey tries to show that there are some characteristics to masculinity that society says are strictly masculine and strictly feminine.

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McDermott

Heather McDermott

When asked what she thought of particular traits she described what she believed to be masculine, feminine, or both. She said that defends own believes, cheerful, independent, shy, athleticism, theatrical, assertive, happy, strong personality, jealous, leadership ability, and truthful as being equal especially since times are changing. For self-reliant, she believed it was more feminine since there are a lot of single mothers nowadays, so getting married and having a husband  isn't necessary in today's society.  She said the conscientiousness would be more feminine, since we have to look feminine in society more so then men. Furthermore, she says that on the media you see these obese men with money and they always seem to have a really hot girlfriend so looks don't seem to matter as much since they'll always have money, but looks fade. She describes flatterable as more of a feminine trait, since she says that women can say things that make you feel good whereas with men it tends to backfire on them and comes out the wrong way. She thinks being unpredictable is more feminine, because if you know the man he's generally more predictable than a woman. Also, she believes being secretive is more of a woman's trait, since they know how to keep secrets really well and can be very sneaky. For yielding, helpful, affectionate, loyal, feminine, reliable, sympathetic, sensitive to other's needs, and understanding were other traits she described as being feminine. In regards to being moody, she described that as a masculine trait since men can be babies when it comes to certain things. Also, she describes forceful, willing to take risks, and makes decisions easily as more masculine traits. As for analytical, she couldn't decide whether she considered it to be more of a feminine trait or masculine one. When asked if her family and friends would respond the same way she did, she said that they probably wouldn't. Her reasoning behind this was because they all grew up differently and she believes that they would take a more traditional outlook on what's feminine and masculine compared to her newer outlook on how times are changing.

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Transcription

• Self-reliant I would put more women just because the way society is nowadays. A lot of single mothers and the ideal that you're going to get married and have a husband that doesn't fit anymore. Then with more women being in college.

• Yielding? Probably women, because women will sacrifice a lot.

• Helpful is definitely women

• Defends own believes is fifty-fifty

• Cheerful fifty-fifty

• Moody I'm going to say men too because men are little babies

• Independent I'm going to say fifty fifty because you have those women who do it all for themselves and you have those men who do it all for themselves

• Shy I'm going to say fifty fifty just because I've meet a lot of  males who were really shy and I used to think oh the girls are shy but I've meet a lot of men who are shy and so it kind of changed

• Conscientious I would say more women just because you have more need to be feminine I know  men need to be masculine but you'll notice in the media that that fat guy always has that hot, beautiful, ridiculously hot girlfriend and he's like this fat blob with money. So I think women need to be more conscious in everything because that fat man will always have money but your look will fade.

• Athleticism is definitely fifty-fifty nowadays

• Affectionate that's probably more women

• Theatrical is going to be fifty fifty because men get up there

• Assertive would be about both equally

• Flatterable I think flatterable would be more women, because women know how to say things to make you feel good and men have a way of saying things that always come out wrong

• Happy would have to be fifty fifty because you have those people who're never happy or never satisfied and they're always looking for something

• Strong personality would be fifty-fifty  

• Loyal I would say would be more women

• Unpredictable women, men if you know the person they're predictable

• Forceful definitely men

• Feminine obviously women

• Reliable women

• Analytical I don't know about that one

• Sympathetic is women

• Jealous fifty-fifty  

• Leadership ability would probably be fifty-fifty

• Sensitive to others needs women

• Truthful fifty-fifty

• Willing to take risks men

• Understanding women

• Secretive: men no women because women can keep those secrets that you never even knew about. Women are sneaky.

• Makes decisions easily: men

Would your friends or family answer differently?

Honestly I don't know what my friends and family would answer just because we all have different, we all grew up differently and so I don't really know what my friends or family how they would answer I think that they're answers would be different than mine though. I think they'd think in the more traditional sense and I'm more newish.

Class session September 29, 5:30p.m. to 6:45p.m.

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For this class participation we were asked to interview a classmate and ask them to assign a gender to a word/phrase/concept on the grading score of 100 being completely feminine, 0 being completely masculine and 50 being neutral or equally feminine and masculine. My interviewee responded in the above interview. 

Sosa 9/29/2014

Álvaro Sosa

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On the 29 of September, 2014, my interviewee had to give her opinion on whether how masculine or feminine are some particular traits presented on the survey from class. Given the answers of my interviewee, one can conclude that for almost any particular trait one can find counter examples for which the rule is broken. In some of the traits the interviewee had no hesitation for the labeling of feminine or masculine for a given trait but this just means that she can conclude from her environment such trait as true for a specific gender because that is all she has seen or knows and thus does not considered the environments she hasn't seen.  Thereby no trait is good reference for identifying gender. Traits are good for identifying roles as in the case when a (male) father is a single father and portrays an affectionate attribute which is most commonly seen as feminine. Although her answers are based on her believes and believes of the people around her, she is aware that those around her will disagree partially and when they coincide in some of the terms it may be due to a different reasoning. These stereotypical words are good for us to take an approach to get closer or away from people, but it is good to recognize that they are nothing more than bias assumptions; assumptions are necessary in almost any event but we must seek for truth and never use them to harm. I believe that these traits should not be used to incarcerate people but in a society of consumption as is the United States this incarceration of genders must happen for them (companies) to have easy targets.

 

Graves Weekly Participation

The interview this week involved rating different attributes as either more masculine or feminine. Our society tends to look at things very black and white. Boys are a certain way, and girls are another. Our socialization implants in our minds what we associate with being masculine or feminine. However, men and women can have many of the same attributes. This interview showed how we view different behaviors as gender specific. My interviewee seemed to be pretty open-minded, rarely giving any one trait a score of 100% masculine or feminine. It was interesting though that "strong" traits such as being independent and "willing to take risks" were thought of as mostly masculine to us. So called "weaker" traits such as being conscientious and yielding were almost completely feminine in our eyes. Why do women feel the need to stay in the background more and are more insecure with ourselves? Is this just ingrained in us from our society? It's hard to know, but the fact that both myself and my interviewee are women and we think of ourselves in that way says something.

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-Chelsea Graves

Eskelsen Weekly Participation

This week's in-class activity involved the Bem Sex Role Inventory, a test designed to indicate if an individual has a masculine, feminine, or androgynous personality. I asked my interviewee, a female, if she deemed certain words as masculine, feminine, or both masculine and feminine. She identified seventeen words as feminine, ten words as masculine, and four words as both feminine and masculine. When asked why she thought "jealous" was both a feminine and masculine term, she explained that she has both female and male friends who can get jealous easily. When asked if her friends or family would view the word "jealous" in a different way, she said they most likely would because everyone has different interpretations of each of these words.

Cara Eskelsen

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Survey Is Not Live

Sorry, but the survey BSRI is not within the specified start and end dates, so you cannot take it at this time. Thank you, Kim Simonds

Public Opinion Test “Testing Gender Traits” By: Kim Simonds

Before the interview begins, the interviewee is informed that the she was participating in a public opinion survey. The interviewee is a female. The interviewee answers: (I put her responses in categories) All the feminine words (worth 100 points) are self-reliant, hopeful, cheerful, and moody. The words that are masculine and feminine (50 points) are, yielding, independent, and athletic. Finally, the words that are masculine (worth 0 points) are defends own beliefs, and shy. I asked the interviewee, "Why did you answer the questions that way? Her response, because being moody and cheerful is more feminine. That defends own belief is more masculine. I asked her, "Would your friends and family answer the same way?" Her response was NO, that some women rely more on men, and that some women are self-reliant or more independent, which is more masculine.

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