Do Feminist Scholars Still Have Academic Freedom?

"By that moment, in the 1990s, there were already courses on sociology of gender in nearly every college and university. The problem, however, was that new research on gender was being siloed in those courses while that information needed to be incorporated into college classrooms that were not focused on gender, but where gender was still vitally important to understand the social world."

"For example, how did gender socialization affect the quality and equality of marriage? How did bias lead to gender wage gaps, and sex segregation of the labor force? How did the criminal justice system arraign women and men differently? Why did international development agencies presume men's economic roles were primary, even in societies with men emigrating for jobs and leaving women-headed families behind?"

By the 1990s, sociology of gender courses existed widely, but new gender research remained confined to those courses rather than integrated across curricula. A grant from the American Sociological Association funded a working group that explored how to disseminate gender scholarship throughout sociology classes. Scholars identified that gender shapes marriage dynamics, wage gaps, labor segregation, criminal justice outcomes, and assumptions in international development, showing gender's relevance across topics. A dedicated book series, The Gender Lens, was launched to publish volumes applying gender perspectives to illness, race and labor, social psychology, and masculinities, with the aim of infusing gender knowledge into diverse subfields and classrooms.

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