SOCI 2P51 Lecture 4: Education Chapters 24-27.docx

• School: Brock University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2P51
• Professor: Michelle Webber

Document Summary

Soci2p51 education: education is not the greater equalizer (if you get an education, you"ll get a good job, it"s the key to getting a boost into the labor market, organization, interaction, curriculum (the way its set up, is clearly gendered, gender inequality persists, early gender research 1970"s, sex roles (now we look at gender) Common education not same education: by age 10 boys vocational training; girls domestic science, spatial segregation (in particular lessons boys do tech, and girls would be cooking, girls housewives or nurturing occupations (teachers or phone operators); boys vocational trades or advanced studies, today unintentional differential treatment. Chilly climate also in our universities, women not encouraged to pursue higher education, not a very welcoming environment: women"s studies, institutional support for feminism (1970"s, 1971 1st formal programme in women"s studies in the university of british columbia, promise of a challenge to masculinist regime of academy, supposed to do academia differently, >40 institutions in canada, not monolithic challenges re.