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• Gender Inequality Beyond the Gender Binary

  • When
    October 14, 2024
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    U Maryland-College Park and hybrid

  Gender Inequality Beyond the Gender Binary: Adolescent Gender Norms and the Changing Gender Gap in American Education, 1960 - 2012 

   Joel Mittleman, University of Pennsylvania

  Although scholars have long argued that boys’ academic engagement is undercut by dominant masculinity norms, these norms have been largely invisible in quantitative research. Instead, researchers have been restricted to documenting disparities by binary sex, collapsing the entire gender spectrum into a 0 or 1. Analyzing four decades of high school cohort studies, the current study moves beyond this binary approach to advance a new perspective on masculinity and the rising gender gap in education.

  Organized by the Maryland Population Research Center. See complete details and register on the MPRC website.
  

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• Annual Rosenberg Lecture: Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield

  • When
    November 08, 2024
  •  
    2:30 PM
  • Location
    U Maryland-College Park, Stamp Student Union

  "From Discrimination to DEI: The Possibilities and Limits of Addressing Race in the Workplace"

  In the US, work has long served to perpetuate racial inequality, with workers of color historically locked out of jobs that could provide pathways to economic security. In the late 20th century, legal and policy interventions sought some limited redress, with efforts to expand occupational opportunities to groups who had previously been systematically excluded. Yet those policies were tailored to address historic forms of discrimination and failed to account for rapidly changing workplaces, labor practices, and racial demographics. In this presentation, Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield considers how these failures limited social policy ostensibly designed to broaden occupational pathways, and how future interventions and organizations can rectify these mistakes.

  Adia Harvey Wingfield is the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences and Vice Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity at Washington University in St. Louis.

  See more information on the UMD Sociology website.

  Dr. Wingfield gave an earlier version of this presentation to the DCSS in February. DCSS also awards the Morris Rosenberg Award for Outstanding Sociological Achievement in honor of Professor Rosenberg.
  

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