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lil  ·  3375 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Men: Older? School-Age? College-Age?: Do You Ever Ask These Questions?

Yes, b_b, it means you are older than school-age or college-age. You can be school or college-aged and not in school.

My audience will be college-aged students and I imagine some "older" ones and I am particularly interested about how much they think about questions of gender in their workplaces.

I'm also interested about whether post-college individuals realize later on, when they are in the workplace, that there are gender issues. I'm curious the extent to which men and women think there are gender issues. That is, if women perceive gender issues or discrimination (no mat leave, for example), whether men are equally concerned about these issues.

Women tell me that they go to meetings where certain men will never look at them or address questions to them. They address questions to other men, who then turn to the woman for the answer. Are men alert to other men's subtle forms of discrimination? Some are both alert and vocal about it. But it is hard for us to be aware of experiences of others. We tend to assume that people are treated the way we would treat them. The Black Lives Matter movement has shed a lot of light on the fact that people are routinely treated differently, often fatally.