Epilogue

Gender is one of the most complex ideas I’ve ever tried to figure out. While I have learned a lot this semester, I feel that it is something I’ll likely never truly understand, as it changes from person to person so drastically. I have taken gender studies classes in the past, but studying the communication side of gender was new to me, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to learn more about it. I had never even considered many of the ideas that we learned about in this class, such as nonverbal gendered communication.

            I think that the most important thing that I’ve learned from this course is to pay more attention to how I approach communication patterns. Nearly every week of the semester, I learned a new form of gendered communication that I had unknowingly taken part in. I have been perpetuating gender inequality without even noticing it, and it’s definitely something that I have been consciously trying to stop doing.  I hope that by applying what I have learned this semester into my every day actions and communications, some change can be made in the lives of those around me.