Gender in the Classroom: Read the article by Susan A. Basow on "Student Rating of Professors are not Gender Blind".

1		How much difference is there between male and female students who are rating a male professor? How much difference is there between male and female students in rating a female professor?
2		What are the added expectations students have for female professors? What do you think is the source of these expectations? Do you think the expectations discussed in this article hold true for female teachers all over the world?
3		Do you feel the findings of this study are consistent with the way you and your friends rate professors?

Ottoman Women: Read the two web pages entitled Seljuk and Ottomon Periods by Filiz Çagman.

4		What were the difference in social life between women living in urban and rural areas of Turkey during the Ottoman empire?
5		What social roles did women have outside the home? What kind of trades were women involved in? Why were these trades chosen over others?
6		How did women's roles change after the Tanzimat?