SOC362H5 Lecture 4: lecture 4
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Women who want children anticipate their selection of their occupations based on childcare. Caregiving is the deeper problem seen as invaluable. Men choose fields that would maximize their earnings especially if they want a family. Women choose occupations that would provide best family accommodations. Cech do young men and women who want families adjust their occupation decisions in light of those plans does this lead men into going into female dom. Family thesis idea is wrong: despite wanting family, majority of students dismiss accommodating their major or minors in school. But men are completely unaffected by family or not. Three things we look for in explanations of social problems. How four biology-based processes lead to gender discrimination. Three ways social culture leads to gender discrimination. 4 links below: must include characteristics: validity, variation, remedy. Men greater but not soo noticeable now a days. Size difference is a lot less now than before. Therefore competition for resources left women behind.
