Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gender Balance...
Undergraduate TFs interviewed acknowledged a striking gender imbalance among their peers...
...after my conversation last year with the assistant professor that I made the bold decision to actually take an anthropology class, despite having already filled all of my economics related field requirements. I enrolled myself in a gender-studies class because it was the only class in the social anthropology department which fit my schedule. There were 46 undergraduate women in the class as well as several female graduate students. There were two men in the class...
...gender imbalance was only one of Harvard's many polar disparities between gender studies and the study of economics. Besides surface differences, economics and gender studies have surprisingly little student enrollment overlap, and in my experience students in each department have little or no experience in the other field. For example, few of my peers in the gender studies class had ever read an economic critique of Marx, although Marx's writings were discussed in the class. On the other hand, few economics concentrators have any desire to gain an appreciation of cultural discourse on gender...
...women's studies department has similar peculiarities which only show how important it is to bridge the interdisciplinary gap. For example: "Guiding Light," the soap opera, was one of the common popular culture examples used to illustrate theoretical arguments in my gender-studies class. Not ever having watched the soap opera, I was a bit lost during these classes, and I wondered if it would be incorrect to critique this "soap opera discourse" as culturally and gender specific, and as a poor model to illustrate points in class...