Transcript 13GenderStratification

Gender Stratification
How does it effect you?
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© Robert J. Atkins, Ph.D.
You have both sex and gender,
what is the difference?
Sex is biology
 Gender is cultural
» Personal traits and social positions that
members of a society attach to being
female and male
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How does your gender effect you?
Gender shapes your feelings, thoughts, and
actions
 Gender roles = attitudes and activities
society links to people of each sex
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Why are women a minority?
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Considered minority due to social
disadvantage
» Less income, education, power and
wealth than men
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How have women challenged
male domination?
Women now own more than 10
million entrepreneurial
businesses
 Athletic performance
» Women have been closing the
gap with men in most athletic
events.
 In general, women are gaining
more opportunities and power.
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Clinton
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What gave women equality?
Industrialization encourages gender equality
 Working outside the home
» Vast majority of women with children 617 yrs old
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Do you remember?
What is the difference between sex and
gender?
 How does socialization effect gender?
 Why are women a minority?
 How have women challenged male
domination?
 What gave women equality?
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What is comparable worth?
People should be paid according to the level
of skill and responsibility involved in the
work.
» If these are comparable (for both women
and men) they should be paid comparably
 Major difference in earnings between men
and women is mostly due to the type of
work each sex does.
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What is the glass ceiling?
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Prevents women from rising beyond middlemanagement
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Where and why are women
targeted for violence?
Physical violence
» Most likely in your own home
 Sexual violence
» Fundamentally about power
 In 90% of rape cases a woman knows her
attacker
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What is female genital
mutilation?
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Primarily in Africa
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Do you remember?
What is comparable worth?
 What is the glass ceiling?
 Where and why are women targeted for
violence?
 What is female genital mutilation?
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