WMST 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gender Identity
12 Apr 2019
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No women as leaders in a lot of major countries. 79. 1 % of members of the world"s parliaments were men. Men control more important roles in politics. Women are 4. 4% of the top worldwide businesses men are 95. 6% Women doing the dominant amount of work in domestic and house care. Since 1979 women and men"s earnings have been unequal 18% less. Source of domestic violence comes from the reliance women have to have on men due to financial aid and gender gaps in wages. Men are taught to want the jobs of violence (war, police, construction) whereas women are taught to want the ones that repair the consequences of violence (nurse, social work, psychology) Homosexuality is deemed unnatural as it does not follow traditional values and patterns. Gender identity sometimes results in intermediate, blended, or sharply contradictory patterns. For which we use terms like effeminate, camp, queer, and trans.
