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Category: Sex and Gender
Honors Thesis Spotlight: Will the Demographic Dividend Affect South Asia?
As fertility rates drop, it is evident that there are major economic and demographic consequences across the world. According to the researcher Melissa Pregasen, the replacement level of fertility at which the population will become stable is 2.1 children per woman given typical contemporary mortality levels. In other words, the average amount of births is…
Research Quick Take: When Religion Hurts: Structural Sexism and Health in Religious Congregations
Sociologists Homan and Burdette are concerned with understanding how gender inequality operates in society. Their study focuses on how structural sexism affects the health of women in religious institutions. Religious congregations are a novel way of examining sexism. They represent a meso-level in between other scales of sexism that have been studied, such as state-level…
Research Spotlight: Rosie the Riveter, Vera the Volunteer: Sexism, Racism, and Female Enlistment in WWII
When the United States entered World War II, women were mobilized in large numbers for non-combat military roles for the first time in U.S. history. Women and men alike were willing to sacrifice extensively to win the war; in December 1941, 91 percentage of Americans supported declaring war on the Axis Powers. Given the overwhelming…
Graduate Student Spotlight: Kyle Saunders from the Department of Sociology
What department are you a graduate student in? I am a PhD. candidate in sociology Why did you decide to go to graduate school? I made the decision to go to graduate school during my undergraduate career. I was led to graduate school because of the research opportunities. Did your interests change throughout your program?…
Making Sense of January 6th: What We Know About Why Mobs Emerge
This post was first published in January 2021. Editor Note: Over the coming weeks, The College of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Florida State University will work to provide experiential and academic faculty perspectives on the causes and consequences of the events surrounding January 6, 2021. This means that some posts will offer academic…
Honors Thesis Spotlight: The Legislative Effectiveness Under Gender Quotas: Argentina Before and After Quota Implementation
Women continue to be under-represented in the legislative bodies of their governments. To combat this, some governments implement gender quotas to increase the number of women holding seats in their legislature. Gender quotas help achieve balanced representation by requiring a particular number or percentage of seats to be allocated to a specific group, such as…
Research Spotlight: LGBQ College Students’ Diverging Narratives of Peer Behaviors: Harassment or Not Harassment?
A few decades ago, experiences of peer harassment were common among college students who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ). Since then, campus climates have substantially changed, and today, LGBT students’ experiences of peer harassment vary considerably across individuals. That is, some report frequent experiences, and others report no experiences. Scholars generally consider…
Galentine’s Day has become a thing – why hasn’t Malentine’s Day?
This first posted on February 13, 2020. On Feb. 13, women will celebrate Galentine’s Day, a holiday trumpeting the joys of female friendships. The holiday can trace its origins to a 2010 episode of “Parks and Rec,” in which the main character, Leslie Knope, decides that the day before Valentine’s Day should be an opportunity to celebrate…
After Biden column, I now use ‘Dr.’ when referring to my colleagues. Here’s why.
This piece first appeared on the Tallahassee Democrat. A national firestorm has erupted over a commentary published in the Wall Street Journal over Jill Biden’s use of “Dr.” as a prefix to her name. I now use the honorific, which is common in higher education, but I largely ignored it prior to coming to Florida State University…
Wicked Problems, Wicked Solutions 