SOCIOL 3 Lecture 10: SOCIOL 3 – Lecture 10 Notes
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Labor force participation/job segregation (female nurses &male construction workers) Earning gap (in 2010 = 81 cents) The glass ceiling effect : women get promoted until a certain point and then hit the. Glass ceiling. (women in the board room, but never the boss) Civil rights act of 1964 ( sex added as a joke/cynical attempt to defeat bill) Equal rights amendment proposed in 1970"s would have made gender equity the law: effort to ratify it failed in 1982, so many old laws still reflect gender biases in areas like homeownership, property, etc. Many see battle to re-criminalize abortion and overturn roe v. wade as a crucial battle for women"s rights (could be 5-4 vote in current conservative supreme court) Geraldine ferraro, hilary clinton, elizabeth warren, etc. (but is there a glass ceiling ?) Many of the most crucial differences actually may not be due to biology.
