SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Matriarchy, Essentialism, Glass Ceiling
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>> society is set up and arranged for the benefit and pleasure of men. It"s a man"s world: actively disadvantaging women. Sex: the biological distinction between females and males. Essentialism gender differences are a product of naturally involved dispositions. Gender: the cultural attributes a society attaches to the biological categories of male & female. Gender identity: traits that people incorporate into their personalities as guided by their culture. Gender roles: attitudes and activities that a society link to each sex. Un index of economic gains to gender equality. Sexism: the belief that one sex is inheritably superior to the other. **pop culture is dominated by women, not men. Patriarchy- (rules of the fathers) a form of social organisation in which males dominate females. Isn"t a natural thing, it shifted sometime in the past. A lot of anthropological evidence saying that there was gender equality. A huge shift in history, laws were rewritten that advantaged men but not women.
