What did about challenges of women in the modern workplace

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Assignment:

Answer the following question below

Section 1

Take the quiz without peeking and score yourself using the answer key.

What were your results?
Did you do better or worse than you initially expected?

Post a reflection of this quiz and tell each other what you expect from this course.

Section 2

Consider Professor Painter's interview, The Expanding Definition of Whiteness, and answer these questions:

How did upward mobilization, assimilation, and education of Irish and Jews expand the definition of 'white'?
How has the word "white", as a description of a people group changed over time?
What do you think is the future of this word?

Section 3

In what ways did Japanese internment during World War II encourage a continued policy of racialization - both formal and informal - that may resonate in our Post- 9/11 America still today with other people groups?

Section 4

1. In your consider: Women in the Workplace 2017 by McKensey.com

2. What did you learn about the challenges of women in the modern workplace, that you did not already know?

3. What data did the researchers find that resonated with you?

4. Based on the suggestions they made, is there anything you think your workplace, church, school, etc... can adopt to create more opportunities for women?

Section 5

After reading the article, The Future of Puerto Rico by Barbara Mantel (ch.13 Sage reader) discuss the following:

1. What did you learn about Puerto Rico's colonial past and present?

2. What are the arguments made in-favor of Puerto Rican statehood (to incorporate as the 51st U.S. state.)?

3. What are the arguments made in opposition to Puerto Rican Statehood?

Section 6

Listen to the podcast Revisionist History Episode 13 Miss Buchanan's Period of Adjustment. What are three things that caught your attention? Why did they impact you?

Section 7

The Immigration table gives us 8 steps to having fruitful conversations about immigration. Please read the 8 steps. Then answer one of the four questions proposed as a conversation starter. a-guide-to-engaging-respectful-conversations-about-immigration.pdf

"Have you ever been in a circumstance where you were a newcomer or felt out of place?"
"What factors do you think most influence your perspective? What is your personal experience with immigrants whom you know? The media? The Bible?"
"How do you think you might respond if you faced the circumstances that many immigrants were in before they decided to come to the U.S.?"
"Can you tell me about an immigrant you know in our community that you've worked with, served, or learned from?"

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