Section 1 (about 1.5 pages (400-500 words)):

• Begin with who you are now, how you "do gender" from morning until

bedtime (and maybe even throughout the night if you have small

children), and how you exist as a gendered being in society.

• Provide detailed examples of your gendered routine. Consider

what you wear, the products you use, how you interact with

friends, family members, and coworkers, and so forth. Describe

how you interact with different people and institutions in society

as a gendered being and how the institutions themselves are

gendered.

• Use what you have learned in the course materials about

different institutions in society, such as the media, the workplace,

the family, medicine, religion, the criminal justice system, the

educational system, the government, laws, and politics. Explain

how gender informs the largest and the smallest decisions in your

everyday life (your lifestyle, relationships, career, etc.). You do not

need to cover all of these categories; they are listed here as an

aid to thinking about how you perform gender throughout your

daily life.

. For full credit, include at least three (3) examples as described

above.

• Define gender, gender role, gendered institution, doing gender, and

the social construction of gender as part of your paper. These