Posted: September 16th, 2017

Accounting

Accounting

For those of us living in early 21st century western cultures, education and the media (both storytelling practices) are understood as institutions that shape, regulate, and mirror culture, ideology, and social norms.

What groups are advantaged by the current system?
What groups disadvantaged?
What are the goals of these institutions?
Are these goals good goals?
What values are expressed and taught through the stories or narratives these institutions disseminate?
So, how are gender roles and norms that perpetuate gendered inequalities maintained through narratives/institutions?