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| Consciousness-raising movement to get people to understand that gender is an organizing principle of life, men and women should be accorded equal opportunities and respect |
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| Biological differences between males and females |
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| Desire, sexual preference, sexual identity and behavior |
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| Social position, set of social arrangements built around normative sex categories |
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| Line of thought that explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones |
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| Line of thought that explains social behavior in terms of who you are in the natural world |
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| Men are dominant and privileged and this is indivisible |
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| Sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one's status as male or female |
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| Nearly universal system involving subordination of femininity to masculinity |
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| Theoretical tradition claiming that every society has certain structures that exist (family, gender, division of labor) to fulfill some set of necessary functions (reproduction, goods production) |
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| Talcott Parson's theory that men and women perform their sex roles as breadwinners and wives/mothers because the nuclear family is the ideal arrangement in modern societies, fulfilling the function of reproducing workers |
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| Occurs when a person's sex or gender is the basis for judgment, discrimination, and hatred against him or her |
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| Illegal form of discrimination intended to make women feel uncomfortable on the job |
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| Invisible limit on women's climb up the occupational ladder |
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| Promotional ride men take to the top of a work organization, especially in feminized jobs |
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