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Part One: How is the gender dichotomy and hierarchy in our society reinforced by societal institutions such as the paid labor force, religion, media and the family?  Base your answer on what you have learned in the Newman textbook and the Baby X reading. Provide examples of gender dichotomies and hierarchies from your own life, or from someone you know. Be sure that you are specific about what the dichotomy and/or the hierarchy is, and how it is reinforced.

Part Two: Newman discusses how children are socialized to fit gender norms, and that these gender norms reinforce the gender dichotomy and hierarchy discussed in Part One. Respond to two of your classmates’ posts, and provide examples of gender socialization which occurred in your childhood or the childhood of someone you know, and explain how socialization to these gender norms reinforced the specific gender dichotomy or hierarchy your classmate wrote about in their post. Don’t forget the Baby X reading in answering this question.