Writing Homework Help

Choose Prompt A or Prompt B:

A.

In preparation before writing, review the concepts of social structures, cultural structures, and life chances (consequences) for workers and families in the Syllabus (p. 1) and in the Core Concepts lecture in Week 1A.    

Your Argument:   Describe how the gender (or sex) segregation of occupations is a social structure that shapes durable patterns of relationships.  What cultural structures justify it?  Discuss the consequences of the gender segregation of occupations for women and men workers and their families.  

Your Evidence (use all sources listed below for prompt in A): 

• Wade & Ferree (2019) Chap. 12 “Work” (Week 1B)
• Blair-Loy, Cech and Pecenco (2013) (Week 1B)
• Schmalzbauer (2011) (Week 3B)
• and relevant sections of supporting lectures.

B. 

Your Argument:  Start your essay by briefly defining hegemonic masculinity (Connell and Messerschmidt 2005) and hegemonic femininity (Schippers 2007). Then, use detailed evidence from the three readings listed below to demonstrate how patterns of male domination (hegemonic masculinity) and female subordination (hegemonic femininity) can be seen in many areas of work life.

Your Evidence (use all sources listed below for prompt in B): 

• Leveraged buyout firm professionals in Turco (2010) (Week 4A).
• The findings from Berdahl (2007), focusing on Study 1 and Study 3 (Week 5A).
• The effects of sexual harassment on women’s careers and financial stress in McLaughlin et al. (2017) (Week 5A).
• One major example from Kantor and Twohey (2019) (Week 5B).
• and relevant sections of supporting lectures.