PSY 339 Lecture 15: Chapter 15.docx
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Women"s lives are improving: education, women receiving more phds in u. s. (50%, women earned 73% if phds in psychology, legal improvements, laws against gender discrimination, sexual harassment, rape shield laws, etc, work, many women are in paid employment and choose to combine roles of mother and worker. Immigrant women: multiculturalism o, women outside the u. s, lesbian rights, environmentalism, violence against women, reproductive rights, workplace issues, women in politics, women in poverty, older women. Profeminist approaches: work to eliminate gender inequality, gender stereotypes, and gender based violence, may work toward public action, mythopoetic approaches, male focused; development of mature, healthy masculinity, less interest in women"s issues, religious approaches, emphasize return of men to head of household, leaders in family and community; women as followers. What you can do: get involved in feminist activism, address small injustices, sexist comments, negative media depictions, etc, be critical about the media; question the underlying purpose for representations of gender, talk to others about feminist issues.
