SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: List Of Countries' Copyright Lengths, House Husbands, Double Burden
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Gender inequality/stratification: males(cid:495) and females(cid:495) unequal access to power, property, and prestige on the basis of sex. Sex: the biological/anatomical characteristics that distinguish males and females: inherited, male , female . Gender: socio-cultural construction of distinctions between the sexes learned social expectations of appropriate behaviour associated with being male or female: what a social group considers proper for its males and females. Masculinity and femininity: sex differences do not come with meaning built into it. Gender acts as an organizing mechanism opening/closing access to power, property, and prestige. Gender is a social construction with very real consequences: men & women are seen & treated as not only different, but as unequal. The questions is: (ow (cid:498)different(cid:499) becomes translated into (cid:498)unequal(cid:499)? (cid:523)janet. This is known as the: the further we go back into the history of the human race, the greater the equality between the sexes.
