POLI 227 Lecture 9: POLI 227- Gender in the Developing World
4 Feb 2019
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Feminist scholars noted the difference between "sex" as it has historically been discussed, and "gender" Depending on which culture and at which point, our understandings of women"s roles can vary greatly. The concept of "sex" is understood to essentialize women, "tending to depict women as sharing a distinctive, and to some degree biologically determined nature" (randall, p. 134) The concept of "gender" instead highlights the way in which the differences between male and female are "socially constructed" and thus also historically and culturally variable, rather than innate and constant. Civil rights: property ownership, doing business, joining workforce. Political rights: participating in government (by voting or running for office); freedom of speech; freedom of assembly. Women"s access to rights such as: divorce, abortion, land ownership, employment, has a strong impact on their social and political power. Where women have fewer rights, poverty tends to be higher.
