Respond to two of the following questions using full sentences and referencing the textbook.

1. What is a script and what are some examples of scripts we use in our lives? What scripts guide you at work and how?
2. Why did the authors choose to interview male executives about women and work-life policies? Do you think this choice was beneficial?
3. What is aversive sexism? Describe two examples.
4. What is the gendered script that the male executives describe concerning full-time working women? Can you think of examples of the women the men describe in the media, or in your everyday life?
5. As the men are speaking about women and work-life they experience several disfluencies in their speech. Why does this occur? As they continue speaking, what happens to these disfluencies and what might be the reason for this?
6. How does sense making theory and structuration theory help to explain the transformative language that occurs during the interviews with the men?
7. This article was published a few years ago. Do you think that if men were interviewed about this same topic today their answer would be different or the same? Why?

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Article Endorsing Equity and Applauding Stay-at- Home Moms: How Male Voices on Work- Life Reveal Aversive Sexism and Flickers of Transformation Management Communication Quarterly 24(1)3-43 The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0893318909352248 http://mcq.sagepub.com SSAGE Sarah J. Tracy' and Kendra Dyanne Rivera' Abstract What can we learn about women's organizational challenges by talking to men about gender roles and work-life? We attend to this question through an interview study with male executives, providing a close interpretive analysis of their talk about employees, wives, children, the division of domestic labor, and work-life policy. The study illustrates how executives' tacit hesitancy about women's participation in organizational life is closely connected to preferred gendered relationships in the private sphere. The case reveals a story of meaning in movement-aversive sexism marked by flickers of transformation-demonstrating how talk can both reveal and disrupt enduring gender scripts, and why hearing male voices is integral to addressing women's work-life dilemmas. Keywords work-life, gender, discourse, aversive sexism, organization, scripts 'Arizona State University, Tempe Corresponding Author: Sarah J. Tracy, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871205, Tempe, AZ 85287-1205 Email: Sarah. Tracy@asu.edu Article Endorsing Equity and Applauding Stay-at- Home Moms: How Male Voices on Work- Life Reveal Aversive Sexism and Flickers of Transformation Management Communication Quarterly 24(1)3-43 The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0893318909352248 http://mcq.sagepub.com SSAGE Sarah J. Tracy' and Kendra Dyanne Rivera' Abstract What can we learn about women's organizational challenges by talking to men about gender roles and work-life? We attend to this question through an interview study with male executives, providing a close interpretive analysis of their talk about employees, wives, children, the division of domestic labor, and work-life policy. The study illustrates how executives' tacit hesitancy about women's participation in organizational life is closely connected to preferred gendered relationships in the private sphere. The case reveals a story of meaning in movement-aversive sexism marked by flickers of transformation-demonstrating how talk can both reveal and disrupt enduring gender scripts, and why hearing male voices is integral to addressing women's work-life dilemmas. Keywords work-life, gender, discourse, aversive sexism, organization, scripts 'Arizona State University, Tempe Corresponding Author: Sarah J. Tracy, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871205, Tempe, AZ 85287-1205 Email: Sarah. Tracy@asu.edu