SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: International Development, Human Capital, Unpaid Work
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Gender: culturally & socially constructed differences between males & females found in meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with femininity and masculinity Social and cultural processes - not biological givens - are most important in defining what males. Gender roles: attitudes, behaviour, and activities that are socially defined as appropriate for each sex and are learned through the socialization process. Gender identity: person"s perception of self as female and male. Gendered institutions: structural features, external to the individual, that perpetuate gender inequality. Gender belief system: includes all the ideas regarding masculine and feminine attributes that are held to be valid in a society. Three factors are important to determine gendered division of labour in a society: the type of subsistence base, supply and demand for labour, extent to which women"s child-rearing activities are compatible with certain types of work. Subsistence: means by which society gains the basic necessities of life. Men hunt, women find roots, seeds, berries, etc.
