| GENDER EQUITY
IN JOBS
By: Kathleen E. van Noort
Worksheet
The overall objective of this lesson is that students see that there
are many jobs/roles in everyday life (service jobs) that were once gender specific, but
are now gender neutral. This provides students with new arenas for work options in their
futures.
STANDARD: All students will be able to identify career areas which are
nontraditional to their gender.
GRADE LEVEL: 3-6, Social Studies
OBJECTIVES:
- Students will be able to list careers traditionally stereotyped with a particular
gender. The student will investigate and draw conclusions as to the validity of such
beliefs.
- Students will effectively work in cooperative groups to complete the project chart and
make a report to the class on their findings.
- Students will effectively use brainstorming techniques.
- Students will engage in life-skills development as those involved in planning to move to
a new home.
- Students will use the Yellow Pages as a resource for needed information and
decision-making.
TIME: Two Class periods
MATERIALS: Telephone book (Yellow Pages). Teacher and students need to
collect copies of phone books. Previous years phone books can be used for this lesson.
PROCEDURES:
- Students will be divided into cooperative learning groups for this learning
experience/simulation.
- Students will pretend that they are moving into a new home in a new area of the state.
Each team/cooperative learning group should be assigned a town or city in Rhode Island.
- Explain to students that when they move, they will need to find new service providers in
their new community to take care of their needs in this new home and location. Have
students "brainstorm" and list all of the service providers whom they will need
to contact, and list these as indicated on the sample chart.
- Students will label service persons and providers that are traditionally male, female,
or both.
- Students will use the Yellow Pages to identify professional and non-professional persons
e.g. medical providers, medical persons, dentists, medical technicians, lawyers, etc.
- Using the information in the phone book, they will try to determine whether the jobs
continue to be assigned as traditional to gender.
- Students will be asked to determine which of the kinds of jobs are now done by either
gender. They will compare the traditional jobs-by-gender listing to their current
jobs-by-neutral gender listing and comment on these changes and why they are taking place
in our society.
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SCHOOL PRINCIPAL |
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ELECTRICIAN |
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CABLE T.V. |
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TELEPHONE |
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PLUMBER |
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CARPENTER |
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MASON |
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LAWN CARE |
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ROOFER |
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PAINTER |
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DOCTOR |
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DENTIST |
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