Critical Reading

Summary
My article Do They Stay or Do They Go is about to figure out the reasons why the
minority of a gender dominated major switch to a major where the gender is the majority. The
scientists gave some possible explanations as to how males and females feel when they are the
minority. For females, they feel uncomfortable and feel overwhelmed by the expectations that is
expected of them. Also for females, stereotype threat makes them feel like they are incapable of
being in the certain field they choose because there is a stereotype that females are not good in
math and science. On the other hand males feel like they have an advantage entering as a
minority because they have more opportunities. However males do suffer stereotype threat too.
Their other peers could make them feel unmasculine or feel like the major that they choose has
little value because it is dominated by women. The scientist hypothesized it is because of these
factors that make the gender switch and choose to take a sample of college students as their
experiment After conducting the experiment, the scientists hypothesized was not fully supported.
The scientists also said there are other factors that come into play with the genders personal
experience that could not be accounted for with the experiment as to why they switch. The
conclusion further research has to done to better understand this topic.

Second Summary
My article is about to figure out the reasons why the genders switch to the majors where
they are dominate in. The scientists gave some possible hypotheses as to how males and females
switch their majors. For females, they feel uncomfortable and feel overwhelmed by the
expectations that is expected of them. Also for females, stereotype threat makes them feel like
they are incapable. On the other hand males feel like they have an advantage entering as a
minority. However, males also suffer stereotype threat too. Their other peers could make them
feel unmasculine. After conducting the experiment, the scientists hypotheses were not fully
supported. The scientists concluded there are many factors that come into play as to why genders
switch from majors where they are the minority to majority.

Rhetorical Analysis
The audience of this text is for college professors, young adults, college students, and
people interested in differences in gender. The primary audience would be college professors and
college students because this is affecting them directly because this is their students and peers,
respectively. The secondary audience would be young adults and people interested in this issue
because this would just be to inform people of a concerning issue that is happening in college
campus. The purpose of the article was to inform the reader to explain why these gender switch
from their first choice to their second and if there was similarities among the genders as to why
they switched. The context in a scholarly article that is published in the journal that is about the
sex roles in human society. It is online, which makes this accessible to everyone that had access
to the internet and J Atkins Library databases.Usually these type of articles are in hard books, but
in this generation, online reading is becoming more common. The authors of this article are all
females. This shows that this paper could be biased since there is no male in this article. Also the
authors acknowledge that this experiment was by a grant that was given to them, like other
scientist. The genre of this text was a scholarly article that had its genre conventions: long,
formal, abstract, hypothesis, literature review, charts, diagrams, references, and prior case
studies.

Work Cited
Riegle-Crumb, Catherine, et al. "Do They Stay or Do They Go? The Switching Decisions of
Individuals Who Enter Gender Atypical College Majors." Sex Roles, vol. 74, no. 9-10, May
2016, pp. 436-449. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s11199-016-0583-4.