Week 11 — Readings & Resources

Your primary reading is Chapter 11 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 68–82 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more practice, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (18–25 min total)

• What people miss about the gender wage gap — Vox
• Economic Inequality by Gender — Our World in Data
• Gender and health — World Health Organization

① Is it about the body or the script?

Chapter 11, Section “Tell sex from gender: the week's key distinction” · Session 1, Segment 1, “Sex, gender, and gender identity” · Remember: sex is about the body, gender is what a society expects, and gender identity is a person's own inner sense.

• What’s the Difference Between Sex and Gender? — Sociology Vibes — a short lecture that separates sex from gender with everyday examples, a quick warm-up before you sort the chapter's five statements. Use it while working through the Week-11 module overview. (video, 4 min) (captions: creator)
• Gender and health — World Health Organization — the international health agency's overview page, which defines gender as socially shaped norms and roles that differ between societies and change over time, sets it beside sex, and names gender identity as a separate idea; compare its wording with the chapter's definitions. (reading, 3–5 min)

② How is gender learned and done?

Chapter 11, Section “Learn it: gender socialization” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Gender socialization and doing gender” · Remember: six agents teach gender for a lifetime, and people keep doing gender in everyday moments that others notice.

• What are Gender Socialization and Gender Roles? — Sociology Vibes — walks through gender socialization and gender roles with examples from families, media, and daily interaction; as you watch, name the agent of socialization behind each example. (video, 7 min) (captions: creator)
• How Parents Influence Kids' Gender Roles — The Atlantic — a short animated piece in which one father describes the household choices he makes about gender roles; treat it as one family's view and listen for the family as an agent of socialization. (video, 3 min) (captions: creator)

③ How do the three lenses read gender and sexuality?

Chapter 11, Section “Name the structure: patriarchy, the gender order, and three lenses” · Session 2, Segment 3, “Three lenses on gender and sexuality” · Remember: functionalism sees complementary roles, conflict and feminist theory see unequal power, and interactionism sees meanings made in everyday moments.

• Theories of Gender: Crash Course Sociology #33 — CrashCourse — runs gender through the three perspectives, from complementary roles to power to everyday interaction; any earnings figure it cites comes from an earlier year, so use the chapter's 2024 figure for this course. This builds on Week 2's work on reading a statistic for what it measures. (video, 11 min) (captions: creator)
• Sex & Sexuality: Crash Course Sociology #31 — CrashCourse — looks at sexuality and sexual orientation through the three perspectives, a fuller version of the chapter's short section; skip the figures from earlier years and keep the idea of sexuality as a social category. Stop here before marriage and the family; next week takes those up. (video, 12 min) (captions: creator)

④ What does the 83% compare, and why is there a gap?

Chapter 11, Section “Weigh raw against controlled, then weigh the explanations” · Session 2, Segment 4, “The earnings ratio and its explanations” · Remember: a raw ratio of medians describes a gap, and the competing explanations need further evidence before any of them settles it.

• What people miss about the gender wage gap — Vox — explains why the headline ratio is not a same-job comparison and how career types and child-rearing enter the explanations; its figure comes from an earlier year, so read the chapter's 2024 figure beside it. (video, 5 min) (captions: creator)
• Economic Inequality by Gender — Our World in Data — start at the part on differences in human capital, which sets a raw pay gap beside an adjusted one, and read on through the parts on occupations, job flexibility, and the motherhood penalty; notice that the page weighs several explanations rather than settling on one. (reading, 10–15 min)
• Equal Pay/Compensation Discrimination — U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the federal agency's plain-language page on pay discrimination; read the part on equal pay for substantially equal work, and notice that the law compares the same kind of job, which is exactly what the raw ratio does not do. (reading, 5–8 min)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

• Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2024 — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — the report behind this week's 83% and 62%; read the opening highlights on the earnings ratio for full-time wage and salary workers, and skip the detailed tables unless you want them. (reading, 8–12 min)

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