SOC 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Nancy Chodorow, Social Constructionism, Symbolic Interactionism
15 Jul 2016
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Women are physically smaller and weaker than men, and less suited for hunting and combat and certain types of work. Child-bearing makes women vulnerable and more dependent for extended periods. Lead to social practices of men being protectors and breadwinners and women"s roles as procreators/caregivers. Societies differ in what men and women take part in. To what extent they make sexual differences important/unimportant. Growing feminist movement continued to press for gender equality and related social concerns. Suffrage movement the central aim of many in the first wave of the women"s movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the right for women to vote in elections. With women"s suffrage (i. e. voting rights) other goals social reform, legal rights would then be more readily attainable. Women have suffered more disadvantages than men at school, in the workplace, and in the public realm. Gender stereotyping/discrimination hinder women more than men.
