SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Glass Ceiling, Motherhood Penalty, Gender Inequality

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Andrea Kelley

Document Summary

Gender fluidity: gender roles: sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one"s status as male or female. Gender roles change over time and over context. Gender expression: the way you outwardly express your gender to other people. Sexisms: when a person"s sex or gender is the basis for judgment or discrimination: hegemonic masculinity: the condition in which men are dominant and privileged. Socialization > how to be properly gendered: gender inequality> boys are called on more in class, interrupt girls and get away with it, girls are put down by male classmates an effectively silenced. Gender inequality at work: today, there about equal numbers of women and men in the workplace, women"s work >lower pay, prestige, and benefits, women are disproportionately employed in public sector, motherhood penalty: less call backs after interviews.