COMM 4135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Housing Discrimination, Class Discrimination, Heterosexism
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Video questions: of choice based on how they identify) A person whose gender identity or expression differs from societies norms and expectations. Housing discrimination (not being able to live in female/male housing. The dsm-iv views gender identity as a disorder (strong and persistent cross gender identification and persistent discomfort or inappropriateness with his/her sex that causes distress) Males and females encounter gendered expectations in schools. Males: kindergarten, preschool and elementary school environments are. Gender-stereotyped curricula diminishes education for all students; those. Discrimination in education also includes racism, classism, and. Heterosexual males and females perform better in single-sex schools. Solution should be to treat and support both male and females equally because single-sex schools are expensive to attend. Gendered expectation and pressures from facing faculty. Gendered hierarchies: prestigious institutions have mostly male faculty, elementary schools have mostly female faculty but superintendents are male; male faculty increases in high school and more in college.
