gender
MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY
GENDER STUDIES DEPARTMENT
July to November 2014
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT – Group Assignment
Task 1 4 typed pages, font 12, double spacing
In a group of at least six each, read the case, research and answer questions that follow:
Every culture has different expectations of what is appropriate for men and women, boys and girls. Boys and girls particularly babies are dressed and identified with the different colours, blue for boys and pink for girls. Girls are given toys that differ from those for boys. For girls it is commonly dolls and for boys it is likely to be action figures like guns.
1.1 What is gender socialisation? (4 marks)
1.2 Using examples, explain how gender socialisation takes place within families? (6 marks)
1.3 Identify and explain two possible problems that are a result of gender socialisation in the family. (4 marks)
1.4 What strategies can be employed to redress problems relating to gender socialisation? (6 marks)
Task 2 - 4 typed pages, font 12, double spacing
In a group of at least six each, read the case, research and answer questions that follow:
I am the Girl Child by Nkatha Kabila
When I was born in Embu, you tied twigs on my cot saying I would be a fetcher of firewood.
When I was born in Nyeri, you said four ululations for me and five for my brother
When I was born in Ethiopia, you said ‘to give birth to a girl child was to bear a problem’ When I was born in Zambia, you said ‘a girl is a peanut seed, she enlarges the clan’
When I was born in Somalia, you told me that women are children with big feet
When I was born in Nigeria, you told me that women were responsible for making the sky go higher and higher so that we cannot feed on it
When I was born in Cameroon, you told me ‘women are half men’
Finally, when I was born in Burkina Faso, you said ‘when a woman praises you for climbing, she is praising you for your falling’
My country, look at me! My continent, my father, my mother, my
GENDER STUDIES DEPARTMENT
July to November 2014
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT – Group Assignment
Task 1 4 typed pages, font 12, double spacing
In a group of at least six each, read the case, research and answer questions that follow:
Every culture has different expectations of what is appropriate for men and women, boys and girls. Boys and girls particularly babies are dressed and identified with the different colours, blue for boys and pink for girls. Girls are given toys that differ from those for boys. For girls it is commonly dolls and for boys it is likely to be action figures like guns.
1.1 What is gender socialisation? (4 marks)
1.2 Using examples, explain how gender socialisation takes place within families? (6 marks)
1.3 Identify and explain two possible problems that are a result of gender socialisation in the family. (4 marks)
1.4 What strategies can be employed to redress problems relating to gender socialisation? (6 marks)
Task 2 - 4 typed pages, font 12, double spacing
In a group of at least six each, read the case, research and answer questions that follow:
I am the Girl Child by Nkatha Kabila
When I was born in Embu, you tied twigs on my cot saying I would be a fetcher of firewood.
When I was born in Nyeri, you said four ululations for me and five for my brother
When I was born in Ethiopia, you said ‘to give birth to a girl child was to bear a problem’ When I was born in Zambia, you said ‘a girl is a peanut seed, she enlarges the clan’
When I was born in Somalia, you told me that women are children with big feet
When I was born in Nigeria, you told me that women were responsible for making the sky go higher and higher so that we cannot feed on it
When I was born in Cameroon, you told me ‘women are half men’
Finally, when I was born in Burkina Faso, you said ‘when a woman praises you for climbing, she is praising you for your falling’
My country, look at me! My continent, my father, my mother, my