What is the difference between the notion of gender and sex difference? How do people learn about the appropriate gender roles? What happens when people don’t learn the appropriate roles?

1. What is the difference between the notion of gender and sex difference? How do people learn about the appropriate gender roles? What happens when people don’t learn the appropriate roles?
   2. What are different aspects of sexism?
   3. In what ways has women’s participation in the labor force in education improve the last 40 years?
   4. In what ways are women still lagging man in terms of the workplace?
   5. How well are women faring as workers in New York City? How closely do they follow the national patterns described earlier in the lecture? How are they different? What might explain those differences?

• Gender Reading
• Reading Questions

1. What percentage of poor families receive subsidized child care? Why do they need it?
2. In what way might the cuts in child care contribute to an increase in welfare? How might the cuts also impact educational performance? Would the cuts then actually save money?
3. Do you believe personally that the government has a responsibility to subsidize child care for poor women? Be clear why or why not.