Gender Sex vs Gender • Do you think differences between masculine and feminine behavior are culturally or biologically defined? • Why do many people resist the idea that it is cultural? • Analyze how your own gender role has been shaped by your family, peers, school, and the mass media. • Which seems to have had the most impact on you? • Why do you think it has been especially difficult to convince men to share the housework? • How did your parents divide up housework? • How do you plan to do this in your own marriage (or relationship)? • Is structural-functional or social-conflict analysis of gender-role inequality more convincing? • Why? Sexual harassment • Why could it be difficult to eliminate sexual harassment from our culture? • What is the effect on the job? • What is the effect on the victim? • How would you suggest reducing this? Female genital mutilation • Is FGM a medical procedure or a means of social control? • What could, or should, be done about this practice? • Should the U.S. accept another country’s culture?