What are one or two examples of gender expectations in your own life? Can you think of things you have been taught/told by adults in your life that feel similar to what Hanna Rosin describes? If you are from a more conservative culture (either in the US or from another country), how is your cultural experience/expectation similar or different from what Rosin describes?

1. What are one or two examples of gender expectations in your own life? Can you think of
things you have been taught/told by adults in your life that feel similar to what Hanna Rosin
describes? If you are from a more conservative culture (either in the US or from another
country), how is your cultural experience/expectation similar or different from what Rosin
describes?

2. Kate Bolick’s essay describes a body of sociology research related to gender. What are 1 or 2
observations in her essay that feel relevant to your experience of gender, in particular as it comes
to courtship and dating?

3. Thinking about the articles by Jason DeParle:
Do you think people should be married before they have kids? How come? Can you imagine a
situation where your position would change – i.e. how would you justify the opposite position?

4. Thinking about your own family, what would you say is the economic work that your parent's
marriage has done? If your parents are not married, in what ways has that impacted your family
economically? Have there been any institutional benefits to being divorced or single parents?