SOCI 250 Lecture 10: Gender Equality
25 Feb 2015
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Soci 250 lecture 10 gender equality: gender: culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males based on meanings, beliefs, and practices that a group or society associate with femininity or masculinity, gendered division of labour: process whereby productive tasks are separated on the basis of gender, ex. Low status vs. high status tasks: gender inequality: the unequal allocation of rights, privileges, resources, status and power based on gender, relative power between men and women, how is gender inequality an individual problem, gender gap comes from gender superiority; merit based, blocked opportunity for best jobs, high status position, most money, etc, social problem, facts: 545/557 nobel prizes for science have gone to men: ceo example; extremely low number of women as ceos o, only about 3 4 point gap in iq between men and women; intellectual capacity is equal (can"t be used as an argument in merit, women have higher educational attainment/higher gpa; good indicator of motivation.
