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Exercise 9.1 It Gets Better

• Read at least one of the research reports at the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network
• Go to the It Gets Better Project and watch at least three of the It Gets Better Videos.
• Jonah Mowry’s “What’s Goin’ On?”

Exercise 9.5 Media Images of Women and Men

• “If being a man means having body hair and sweating, why are the sexy guys in ads immune to both?”

Exercise 9.7 The Storm

• A Gathering Storm
  A Gaythering Storm

Exercise 9.8 Gender, Politics, and Political Power

• Instead of going to The White House Project  go to the Center for American Women and Politics

Exercise 9.11 Promoting Gender Equality Throughout the World

• The United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Women’s Empowerment
• The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

Exercise 9.12 Single and Unequal

• Read “Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’” and watch the “Single and Unequal” video that accompanies it. Then, answer the following question in a two- to three-page paper.

Suggestions for Specific Actions

• National Organization of Working Women
• Free the Children
• The Power of a Girl
• Go to and read “Nelly Furtado: Supporting Girls Education.” Then, go to Free the Children  and help raise the money to adopt a village!
• Human Rights Watch
• Center for American Women and Politics