SA 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Matriarchy

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Hilal Ozcetin

Document Summary

Gender and inequality: gender: personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female and male, gender stratification: unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women. Gender roles (sex roles: attitudes and activities that society links to each sex. Gender affects how we think of ourselves and teaches us how to behave. Gender and socialization agents family, school, peer groups, and mass media. 60% of all women work and 72% of working women work full time. Women hold primary responsibility for housework and parenting: the (cid:498)second shift(cid:499) some work defined as (cid:498)men"s work(cid:499)