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Due BEFORE CLASS Week # 4 Assignment 4: Gender and Paid Work 1) In your blogs: write about whether you believe children "naturally" act like girls or boys or how this behavior might be learned or fostered by the larger society and/or social institutions like education, the economy, government etc. For example, think about toys that children play with or the clothes/colors they are dressed in. Do you think children want to play with these toys or do we create gender roles by rewarding children for gender appropriate behavior or punishing them when they display gender inappropriate behaviors? Many of you work in day care centers or schools - how do teachers react when boys want to play dress up versus when girls act aggressively? Why do girls like pink and boys blue? 2) Go to this website: [|True False Quiz]

3) From this page - you will find a link to a chart: Use the chart Mothers in the Labor Force, 1955–2004 Percentage of mothers with children to answer the True or False questions. [|Chart on Women and work]

4) Print this copy in word so you can add T for true and F for False

5) Copy and paste your completed the True/False questions quiz into your blogs.

6) Do you think women are doing as well as you as expected, less well, or better and why?