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Social Problems - Fall 2025
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Doing Gender
Performance of gendered behaviors that reinforce cultural expectations
Gender Tracking
Channeling men and women into fields based off gender
Glass Ceiling
Invisible barrier that prevents women and minorities from advancing to high level positions
Glass escalator
Men in female-dominated professions advancing more quickly than their female colleagues
Second Shift
Unpaid housework and childcare that many women perform after returning home from paid employment
Quid pro quo harassment
Job benefits depend on sexual cooperation
Title IX
Federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational programs receiving federal funding
Inequalities in education
Disparities in treatment based on gender within school systems
Inequalities in workplace
Barriers and discrimination leading to unequal opportunities and outcomes
Inequalities in politics
Unequal representation and paricipation of genders
Inequalities in media representation
How media reinforces and challenged stereotypes and power dynamics