Stratification Based on Gender

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Stratification Based on Gender
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• Gender refers to the personal traits and

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Gender Impacts

• Self image

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Definitions of Gender Roles (Margaret Mead)

• Three societies in New Guinea (1935)
• The Arapesh
• The Mundugumor
• The Tchambuli

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Sexism

• Categorizing a person based on stereotypic
  notions of what male/female means
• Both males and females encouraged to conform to
  societal expectations of appropriate gendered
  behavior

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Focus on How Stratification Based on Gender
Affects the Status of Women

• Historical and demographic background

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For Women who Reached Maturity in
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• For the 1900s woman
• At death, youngest child
• The 2000s woman is
• Other institutions have taken over many of the
  tangible tasks associated with raising children

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• These historical changes have been accompanied
  by
• Increased labor market participation

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Current Status of Women in U.S. (2000)

• Perform ____________hours of housework/week
  (_______ hrs/men)
• Earn on average __________ of mens wages

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• Disparity in income/wages due to
• Differences in kinds of occupations
• Discrimination

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Women

• Education
• Earn 56 of BAs, 57 MAs, 42 Ph.Ds
• Power
• In the U.S., women are
• ________ seats in Congress
• _________ of state legislators
• __________ governors