Learning about the Influence of Gender on Communication
Recently, I had the chance to learn more about the influence of gender on our worldview and daily interactions through a speaker that came to talk in my Communications and Media class. This Wednesday , Billy Huff, a lecturer at the University of Illinois that has taught courses on: Gender Communication, Argumentation, and Social Movement Communication, visited our class to talk about gender bias. I was able to apply much of the knowledge that I learned recently through this class during the discussion led by Huff, making connections between gender and its influence on our behavior, perception of the world around us, and social status. One particular topic that I found to be especially interesting that Huff brought up in his discussion was how the differences in treatment of people based on their perceived gender could be identified from birth, citing the example of baby showers. Huff then went on to talk about a study that was conducted, in which a newborn baby was subjected to a...