SOCIOL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Gender Role, Gender Identity
Document Summary
Gender inequality: the contemporary women"s rights movement began in the late 1960"s. Boys generally acquire deeper voices, more body hair, and more muscles from their. Girls develop breasts and wider hips and begin menstruating). Women smile more often, men spit and curse more, women care for children more, women cry more often. The development of gender differences: if culture and social in uences matter much more than biology, then gender differences can change and the status quo may give way. If biology is paramount, then gender differences are perhaps inevitable and the status quo will remain. Biology and gender: in prehistoric societies, biology was destiny because the only social roles were hunting/gathering food and bearing/nursing children. This in turn implies that existing gender inequality must continue because it is rooted in biology: critics challenge the evolutionary explanation on several grounds, 1. Much greater gender variation in behavior and attitudes existed in prehistoric times than the evolutionary explanation assumes: 2.
