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| Refers to the meaning a culture attaches to being female or male. Evidence that gender is rooted in culture includes global comparison by Margaret Mead and others showing how societies define what is femanine and masculine in various ways. Gender is not only about difference, Gender is an important dimension of social stratification. |
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| The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women. |
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| A form of social organization in which females dominate males. |
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| A form of social organization in which males dominate females. |
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| the belief that one sex is innately superior to the other. |
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| gender becomes part of our personality (gender identity) and our actiosn (gender roles). All the major agents of socialization-family, peer groups, schools, and the mass media- reinforce cultural definition of what is feminine and masculine. |
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| attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex. |
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| Gender and Social Stratification Work Place |
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| A majority of women are now in the paid labor force. Comparing full-time US workers, women earn 78% as much as men. This gender differenec in earnings results from differences in jobs, family responsibilities and discrimination. |
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| Gender and Social Stratification in Family Life |
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| Most unpaid housework is performed by women. Pregnancy and raising small children keep many women out of the labor force. |
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| Gender Stratification in Education |
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| Women now earn 59% of all associate's and bachelor's degrees. Women make up 47% of law school students and are increasing. |
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| Gender stratification shapes in Politics |
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| Until a century ago, almost no women held elected office in the US. Recent decades the number of women in poltics have increased. Vast majority of elected officials, especially at national level are men. Women make up 15% of the US military personnel. |
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| Investigates the intersection of race, class, and gender, factors that combine to cause special disadvantages to some categories of people. i.e. Women of color find more discrimination than others. |
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| Violence against women and men |
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| is a widespread problem that is linked to how a society defines gender. Related issues include, sexual harassment and pornography. |
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| any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates. |
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| Comments, gestures, or physical contacts of a sexual nature that are deliberate, repeated, and unwelcome. |
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| Structural-Functional Approach |
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| preindustrial societies, distinctive roles for males and females reflect biological differences between the sexes. |
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| gender is an important dimensional of social inequality and social conflict. gender inequality benefits men and disadvantages women. |
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| support of social equality for women and men, in opposition to patriarchy and sexism. |
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