Gender Inequality

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Chapter 4

• Gender Inequality

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Gender

• Gender personal traits and expectations society
  links to being female or male
• Gender stratification unequal distribution of
  wealth, power, and privilege between men and
  women

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Gender Ideology

• Patriarchy a social pattern in which males
  dominate females
• Matriarchy a social pattern in which females
  dominate males
• Sexism the belief that one sex is innately
  superior to the other.

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Gender and Social Institutions

• Gender and the Family
• Gender and Education
• Gender and the Mass Media
• Gender and Politics
• Gender and Work

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Gender Stratification

• Income
• Housework
• Violence against Women
• Sexual Harassment
• Sexuality, Beauty, and Reproduction

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Feminism

• Feminism the study of gender with the goal of
  changing society to make women and men equal.
• The importance of gender
• The importance of change
• Eliminating patriarchy
• Eliminating violence against women
• The importance of sexual autonomy

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Applying Theory

• Structural-functional gender is not a problem
  it is functional to the orderly operation of
  society
• Social-conflict gender is a problem, especially
  to women who are disadvantaged by a system that
  gives wealth and power to men
• Symbolic-interaction gender may or may not be a
  problem gender is a basic element of the social
  reality we experience