Lesson Plan
Anti-Defamation League

Pink Collar Jobs: Gender Segregation and Pay Inequality in the Workplace

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Cartoons showing women in the workplace spark a discussion about being a business executive and claiming the corporate ladder. Small groups analyze data and create graphs that display essential information from the handouts. The class...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gender Equity in the Classroom and the Workplace

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research careers non-traditional to their genders. They job shadow at cooperating businesses and investigate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Infusing Equity By Gender Into the Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 7th
Students participate in activities to develop life skills related to gender equity.  In this gender equity activity, students examine the roles of people using hats. Students will role play various occupations related to the hats....
Worksheet
Curated OER

Personality and Appearance Gender Guessing Game

For Students 7th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students, working with a partner, participate in a gender game where they describe a man or woman they know without saying their gender.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

American History: Finding your Voice

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners are able to write a speech and create a slogan through analysis of current issues articles dealing with pesticide use. They put themselves in the position of one of the workers affected by the story they read.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reconstruction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the historical period of the Reconstruction and the events that surrounded the abolitionist movement. Students use guided questions to conduct research. Then they complete a venn diagram in order to compare two...
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Transformed Workplaces

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, learn about the transformation of the Indian workplace due to a new influx of young, mostly female workers into India's outsourcing industries.
Handout
Digital History

Digital History: Feminism Reborn

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
Article
Other

Afl Cio: Time for Working Women to Earn Equal Pay

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the impact of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in achieving equal pay for women. Links to related articles.