PSC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Gender Role, Y Chromosome
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2 ways to build constructivist understanding of gender: categories or process. Attitudes about gender around the world connect patterns of socioeconomic modernization to cross-national differences in attitudes about gender: more liberal about gender role in wealthier societies. Wvs: traditional values in bottom left and modern values upper right poorer societies retain values that discourage women from entering the workforce, encourage them to focus on childbearing and childrearing, and frown on divorce, gays, abortion equality. Gender gaps in established democracies women are more liberal even though both have gotten more left. Similar societies, different outcomes: tunisia, morocco, and algeria geographic neighbors, former french colonies, gained independence around the same time, share. Islamic religious and cultural history in which men have more power, non-democracies family law code: set of laws governing marriage, divorce, inheritance of family property, responsibility for children, and other related matters.
