SOC362H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 3 Women, Essentialism, Job Performance
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A majority of companies have one woman on their board, but only a quarter of california"s publically traded companies do not have a single woman on their board. Today"s objectives: three things we look for in comparing explanations of social problems, how four biology-based processes lead to gender discrimination, three ways social culture leads to gender discrimination. Some suggestion for a remedy: how do we fix the problem. Root causes: the fundamental, basic, or initiating causes, the beginning of a causal chain eventually leading to occupational gender segregation: not sure whether biology or social culture is more important it depends on different situations. The diagram above is a more accurate representation of root causes, but even here, biology and social culture are not distinguishable in the general context. Chromosomal and genetic: physical and mental. The question marks below are the link why biology might lead to gender discrimination we have 4 of them as possibilities: physical attributes.
