GEOG 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Microfinance, Deindustrialization
15 Jan 2018
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What is gender: sex (male/female) biological characteristics vs. Gender (masculine/feminine) socially assigned traits and culturally normalized traits: gender is a social category that refers to a range of characteristics pertaining to differentiating what is masculine and what is feminine. Common trends: men and women tend to hold different jobs. Jobs associated with males: construction, mining (industry), manufacturing or warehousing. Work and gender in developing nations: offshore manufacturing jobs resulting from deindustrialization are mainly held by women. Patriarchy can be used to understand power relationships in the workplace: female workers are harassed, abused, and humiliated, discipline is a mechanism of control, paid low wages, work in dangerous conditions, wages go to male household heads. Is factory employment for women in the developing world liberating or does it represent further capitalist exploitation and oppression: women from the philippines in child care and domestic work.
