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| three key factors preventing women from consolidating their presence in sports. |
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Sexual harassment
Pressure to maintain low body weight
Continued barring of women because of cultural and religious constraints
Homophobia and heterosexism |
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| four most prevalent roles played by men in U.S. television programs. |
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Standard bearers: Men are supposed to do their best and achieve as much as they can
Workers: Men should earn a lot of money and develop strong work ethic
Lovers: Men are romantic husbands and partners or playboy swingers
Rugged individuals: Men should engage in dangerous and adventurous acts and athletics |
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| four most prevalent gendered and racialized images in television advertising |
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Powerful White Men: men are twice as likely to be giving orders or exercising authority
White women sex objects: 25% of white women are depicted as sex objects
Aggressive black men: Black men are three times as likely as white men to be shown behaving in a physically aggressive manner
Inconsequential black women: Black women are less authorities than white men, less aggressive than black men, and less engaged in family roles and sexual encounters than white women |
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| four main areas of concerned regarding the role of women in U.S. television. |
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The number and severity of acts of violence
The proportion of women in the cast
Sexual exploitation
Sexual Responsibility |
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| three important findings by Lauzen and Dozier’s study (2005) about gender and age in situation comedies and dramas |
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Men in their teens and twenties were unrepresented, as were men over sixty
Men in their 30s, 40s, and 50s are overrepresented
Women in their teens, 20s, and 40s are slightly overrepresented
Women in their thirties were dramatically overrepresented
Women in their 50s and 60s were underrepresented |
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| Power and performance sports |
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| highly organized and competitive |
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| comprised of more loosely defined and organized activities |
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| When a group and their expierence do not appear in the media, it sends a message that they do not matter and their views are un important. |
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| When a group and their expierence do not appear in the media, it sends a message that they do not matter and their views are un important. |
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| A person’s value comes only from his/her sexual appeal or behavior, a person is held to a standard that equates physical attractiveness with being sexy, a person is sexually objectified, sexuality is inappropriately imposed upon a person |
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| made into a thing for others sexual use, rather than seen as a person with the capacity for independent action and decision making. |
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| three periods of marriage and family law |
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Doctrine of coverture- husband and wife became husband
Passage of the Married women’s property laws- allowed women the right to own property and control their own earnings
Gender equality in the eyes of the law |
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| three periods of marriage and family law |
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Doctrine of coverture- husband and wife became husband
Passage of the Married women’s property laws- allowed women the right to own property and control their own earnings
Gender equality in the eyes of the law |
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| stresses the importance of gender differences and what they see as natural differences between fathers and mothers. |
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| emphasizes the similarities between women and men and the need for mothers and fathers to work as a team |
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| emphasizes the similarities between women and men and the need for mothers and fathers to work as a team |
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| prioritize the responsibility to provide for their family, giving them highest family authority |
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| autonomy over parenthood, Prioritize breadwinning but but separate themselves from family |
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| autonomy over parenthood, Prioritize breadwinning but but separate themselves from family |
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| integrate paid work and family |
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| had limited contact with their wives and continued to define them as the enemy |
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| still had animosity toward their wives, but wanted to maintain a relationship with their children and felt a collaboration with their ex was necessary |
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| focused on their own parental responsibility for their children rather than their rights as fathers, set differences aside |
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| three new trends in marriage and family in the United States. |
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Gay marriage
Promotion of marriage in countries with declining rates
Encouragement of couples on welfare to get married |
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| three specific ways in which the family is gendered |
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Widowhood
Motherhood mystique- being a mother is a much more important role than that of fathers
Parenting type- Mothers are expected to be more hands on |
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| three reasons why elderly care has become a more important part of our lives. |
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For the first time in history the average married couple has more parents than children
Longer life expectancy and lower birthrates
Fewer siblings
Childbearing at later ages
Higher divorce rates eliminate care of the elderly by their spouses
Lack of attention from the government |
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| Dominator model of society |
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| hierarchical societies that de[end on threat and violence to survive |
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| Partnership model of society |
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| organizes societies that are more sexually egalitarian, more peaceful, less hierarchical, less authoritarian |
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| the kind of work that involves face-to-face or voice-to-voice contact between workers and customers |
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| factors maintaining the wage gap between women and men |
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| Discrimination, human capital, organization of jobs |
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| what happens to paid and unpaid work when the economy is globalized. |
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When work is globialized, jobs are transferred to those places where labor is cheapest.
Pay scales for jobs left in the united states are kept down.
Unpaid work is more common due to jobs lost |
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| why women’s work is often rendered invisible |
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Housework is a form of invisible work done by women
Sociability work- work done by volunteers in the community to help support important activities and institutions often done by women |
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| Managers may feel more comfortable around people they feel are like themselves |
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| Gender segregation of the labor market |
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| “Men’s work” versus “women’s work” Gender segregation of jobs is the most important reason for gender wage gap. Traditional man jobs pay more |
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