Friday, November 30, 2012


I have not started my naturalistic observation or my experiment yet but I have started my case study. For the case study, I am going to tell the story of Malala Yousufzai, the 14- year old Pakistani girl nearly killed by the Taliban. Malala was shot in the head on the school bus just because she was supporting education for girls. It is terrible how girls and women there are treated so different from the men and that all that young girls there want is to be able to go to school and they are told they cant or they will get killed? Its disgusting and a terrible thing that is going on there so I think it has a huge impact on sexism around the world and how women are treated. I am going to do the naturalistic observation and the experiment on the same days and going to do it on Saturday, December 1st, Wednesday, December 5th, and I am going to try to go on one other day. I am choosing a Saturday and a Wednesday to go to Victoria's Secret, Home Depot, Coach, and a car dealership because I want to see the difference of the responses I get on a busy day of the week and a not so busy day. I am going to personally go in these stores and see the responses I get for how long it takes for employees to come up to me and I am also going to observe other people, men and women, and see the responses I see from that. 

Monday, November 19, 2012


I am going to include a case study, naturalistic observation, and an experiment in my sexism project. I am going to target sales people in various industries such as car dealerships and retail stores such as Victoria's secret, coach, and home depot. I am going to time how long it will take a sales person to come up to me in these various stores and I am also going to observe others and see how long it takes and determine where the sexism exists. Throughout the next few weeks, I am going to go to these various stores with my iPhone to time the responses from the sales people and a notebook to record the data. I also plan to conduct my experiments and observations during both busy and quiet hours to see if there is going to be a difference. 

Thursday, November 8, 2012


For my project, I would like to combine the two methods of a survey and a case study in my presentation. I want to make a survey with about twenty questions on regards to peoples opinions on sexism in the workplace and society. Out of the survey, I hope to do an analysis and conclude if there is any difference between peoples opinions based on their age, marital status, and occupation. For the case study, I am deciding between an example of sexism against a student in Pakistan or sexism in the workplace with my mother where she was replaced by a man and didn't receive equal pay. I would like to do a case study to provide a clear example of sexism today and the impact it has on people and society.