Another activity from UVA

Have the group come up with tasks, careers, and adjectives that they associated with either males or females. This leads into a discussion of how the group does or does not fit those characterizations and whether or not stereotypical gender characterization affected the way the group operated on a day-to day basis. The UVa group that did this found that many of the words used to describe females were more negative than males. They noted that having the group come up with a list of charcterizations on their own was really helpful because trends emerged in the lists that were not evident or intentional as we were making up the activity, then the group had to react to and reconcile with there stated opinions of gender issues. This activity could easily be applied to racial, religious or ethnic groups as well as people with different sexual orientations.