I thought the group did an excellent job of capturing the history behind the gender gaps in education. They touched on a lot of different topics and made the presentation engaging.
I was pleased with the activity at first that broke us up into gender and brought out our strengths. In addition, I thought the memes were an integral part of the presentation, and I really enjoyed considering the pros and cons for single sex education.
The slide show was very nicely done and very professional looking. There was not too much clutter so it was easy to follow. The text was a little small, although it was manageable. I'm sure it was much more readable on the computer screen.
Some things that I considered during the presentation (my reflective questions):
Is the monetary gap between males and females broken down and examined by profession? For example, we say that women get $0.77 to the $1.00 that men get, but could there be confounding variables that create this difference? For example, Engineering is primarily male, whereas education is primarily female, and obviously engineers get payed more. Is this taken into consideration with the $0.77 to the $1.00?
Also, the component of percentages of males and females in specific jobs as it relates to the gender gap is interesting to me. If there is discrimination based on gender, of course that is an issue, although if the reason there are so few men in education is because they don't want to go into education, then that isn't a problem. For example, Clarkson University is 70% male because it is an engineering school. They don't turn down women to the program, it just so happens that men tend to go more towards engineering. If it is peoples' choice is it really an issue that needs to be addressed?
Your presentation did a great job of getting me thinking of these questions. Well done!
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