Social Issues

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Social Issues

• Gender and
• Social Inequality

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Is This Discrimination?

• 1998
• Southern Baptist Convention
• submit graciously

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Women in the World
2/3 of work force
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Money/Wealth
1/10th of World Money/Wealth
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Property
1/100th of world property
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Women in the U. S.Areas of Discrimination

• Education
• Prior to 1850
• less educated
• 1873
• U.S. Supreme Court decision

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Women in the U. S.Areas of Discrimination cont

• Work Work Place
• 45 of work force
• lower end of job hierarchy
• Expectation of women
• care for children
• employer/employee problems

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Women in the U. S.Areas of Discrimination cont

• Income
• tend to fall behind men
• Instructors opinion
• blue collar verse white collar jobs
• Issue of retirement

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Women in the U. S.Areas of Discrimination cont

• The Military
• Is this institution unique?
• Does technology become an issue?

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Men and Gender Inequality

• Discrimination and the masculine mystique
• Myth of masculinity

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Androgyny

• A condition where male and female
  characteristics are not rigidly assigned, but
  there is a blending of the traits, attitudes, and
  roles of each gender (Sullivan 2000250).