SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Stratification, Kibbutz, Masculinity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Gender and inequality: gender: personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being male or female, gender stratification: the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women. Chapter 13 gender stratification: gender and the mass media: men play more interesting characters than women. Ads traditionally show women in domestic roles and men in occupational roles. Gender and social stratification: working women and men, women are moving into business, finance, sciences, and medicine, however, women still dominate sales work and service occupations, men dominate most senior positions and trades. Gender, occupation, and income: women earn 71 cents for every men earn due to, kinds of jobs: low-income, service, being out of the labour force with children. Gender and politics: today, women are involved in all levels of politics in canada, the largest proportion of women politicians is found in the municipal arena, women are underrepresented in provincial and federal politics.