Splash Biography

Have you ever wondered why most young girls seem to play with baby dolls, while most young boys play with trains and building blocks? Could this have any correlation with the fact that in our society, women have mostly been seen as caretakers while men have largely held the positions in the science and engineering fields? Why is it that a woman takes her husband’s last name when she gets married? Why doesn’t the man, instead, take her last name? This class is about identifying certain gender divides that society has created for us. We will discuss these issues and come up with ways to dodge these preexisting, and sometimes completely irrational, restrictions that society has seemed to place on women and men.