Saint Augustine College Equal Parenting Discussion

Let’s imagine that you have been asked to give a mini guest lecture to next year’s S338 class. Your final project assignment is to develop this mini-lecture in a written format. There are two options for this guest lecture.

Option 1. First, you can choose a concept from the list below, which we learned in the class, and explain the concept using two new examples that weren’t used in the lecture (see the “Examples” in the “Required components for your lecture” section). In your paper, you should clearly explain what the concept means, why the concept is important, in what ways your examples illustrate the concept, and how your examples and concept together help us to understand how gender affects us.

Below is the list of concepts you can choose from:

gender binary

gender nonbinary

gender similarities hypothesis

• doing gender 
• gender policing
• doing gender and accountability
• intersectionality
• hegemonic masculinity
• emphasized femininity
• double bind
• equal parenting
• cultural devaluation of femininities
• second shift
• greedy institutions
• ideal worker norm
• intensive mothering
• flexibility stigma
• gender segregation of work
• motherhood wage penalty
• glass ceiling
• gender discrimination at hiring
• gender bias
• shadow mothers
• chilly climate
• Option 2. Alternatively, you may choose a completely new topic or phenomenon that wasn’t covered in our course (some examples are below) and write a paper that demonstrates how gender shapes our experiences and the way we in which we understand our social world. In so doing, please use at least two concrete examples to illustrate how your topic is relevant to gender (see the “Examples” in the “Required components for your lecture” section). You should also apply at least one concept you learned in our class to explain how the concept helps us to understand the phenomenon you chose to explain for your lecture.
• Here is a list of some examples of topics that you can choose from. You may also choose a topic that wasn’t listed below. The list below is here just to give you some ideas.
• Gender in the church

Gender in sports

Gender on campus

Gender in dating

Gender in the music

• Gender in the election or political world
• Gender in the pandemic
• Gender on social media
• Required Components of Your “Lecture” Paper
• Regardless whether you chose option 1 or option 2, your lecture paper should include all of the following three components: (1) paper (written lecture), (2) example materials (e.g., video clip, podcast, news article, blog post), (3) A list of discussion questions.
• Paper: for your lecture, you should write a paper (~5 double spaced pages) that explains the concept or topic that you chose and how gender is relevant to the topic/concept.
• Examples: In your lecture (paper), please illustrate your concept or topic using at least two video clip, image, or podcast. In your paper, please use these materials and provide an explanation about how the examples from these materials can effectively illustrate your topic/concept. Please also provide these materials at the end of the paper (e.g., link to the video clips/podcast/news article, attach images).
• Discussion questions: At the end of your lecture paper, please also provide a list of 2-3 discussion questions that you would want to use for your lecture. These questions should be relevant to the topic of your lecture and something your students would be excited to participate in the discussion. Please avoid the questions that have a definite or right or wrong answer. Good discussion questions are “open-ended” in nature and thought provoking and facilitates students critical thinking.

While you’re completing this task, please be mindful about your writing and materials reflecting perspectives and experiences of the diverse groups of people as much as you can. For example, if your paper is about a division of housework, think about whether your lecture largely reflects the perspectives and experiences of heterosexual white middle class couples or adequately reflects those of nonwhite couples, same-sex couples, working class couples, etc. That is, please consider the “intersectionality” approach we discussed in the class. If you think that your lecture is largely based on the dominant group, please be explicit by saying, your topic is “division of housework among white heterosexual couples” rather than leaving unspecified, like “division of housework among couples.”