Gender Stratification

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Gender Stratification

• Why do we study gender stratification?

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Gender stratification

• Society divides people into males females
• Distributes life chances disproportionately
  between males females!

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Gender Stratification

• What are the examples of disproportionate
  distribution of life chances between the gender
  in our society?

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Gender Stratification

• The difference between
• SEX
• GENDER

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Difference between

• Sex
• BiologicalXX vs XY
• Innate,natural differences
• Gender(gender role)
• Expected behavior (how one is to behave?)
• Cultural/Social (artificial creation by society)

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Gender role socialization

• How do we learn to behave in accordance to our
  sex?
• Media, family, school (education), religion

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Basis of gender difference

• Mead
• Arapesh-no gender roleMW alike(feminine)
• Mundugumor-no gender roleMW alike (Masculine)
• Tchambuli-gender roleMen are feminine women
  are masculine

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Conclusions

• What is the basis of gender role?
• Biological?
• Cultural/social?

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Gender Stratification

• Functionalism
• Conflict
• Interaction

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Functionalism

• Parsons Bales
• Expressive role
• Instrumental role

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Instrumental Expressive Role

• Expressive Caring, compassionate, cooperative
• Instrumental Aggressive, competitive, assertive

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Conflict

• Unequal power
• Marxsbourgeoisie proletariat
• Women as oppressed majority or minority!

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Conflict

• Sexism (attitude)ideology of superiority of men
• Discrimination (Institutional) denying life
  chances as normal operation (everyday practice)

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Interaction

• Conversation styles show male/female differences
• What does it mean? (It is for you to decide)

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Women in the USA/World wide

• Unequal status around the world
• Feminization of poverty
• Income differences between mens womens job
• Glass ceiling

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Status of women

• Hochschindsecond shift
• Minority womenwomen first or race/ethnicity first