SOCI 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Essentialism, Motherhood Penalty, True Women
16 May 2018
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SOCI 495
February 19
Gender Inequality III in the Workplace
• Ho e ad oe ake diffeet aee hoies
Workplace Inequality and Socialized Preferences
Shelley Correll: Gender and Career Choice
• o consensus --> some that believe that are differences between men and women and basic
mathematic aptitude
• Soe ho lai that thee is a diffeee, the adit it's a sall diffeees ad thee's o
mechanism to explain the difference
• Muh lage difference within population of men and women than between the two groups
• Gedeed aee hoies ae ased o eas of gede soializatio ad steeotpes
• Whe ou eliee ou good at soethig, he ou fail, ou ae't disouaged --> for men
and math, women and verbal abilities
Paula England: The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled
• Wokplae ieualities fous
• Itesetio of gede ad lass
• To otiatios
1. Do better than their parents
2. Remain in occupations that are historically dominated by women/men (depending on sex)
• Most of bind to essentialist assumptions about what women/men are good at and should
do
• Loe lass oe: ale to ahiee oth goals, i s/s loe lass household the it’s a
good hae ou othe did’t work. Any paid work out of the house is a sense that you're
doing better than your mom: Able to do better than your mom, but stay in the safe zone, gender
conforming, win/win situation
• The fe oe that e hae see ete ale pofessios ae iddle lass women --> in
order to do better than their moms they had to enter some male dominated professions like
lawyer, engineers, doctors
• Yes we've seen some change, and the change has to do with those already in the middle
class
Critique of Correll and England
• Ipotat pat of the eplaatio ut the ae oth fouses o oe's CHOICES
• Neglet to speak aout hoie of eploees, aage, opoatios, osses, o-workers -->
they miss the structural constraints
• Costaits that offe liited opportunities
• Soe oe oe tha efoe hae a hoie aout thei futue
• But oe toda hae elatiel little hoie --> women in the class are not a representative
sample in society
• Soe women didn't have resources for education --> Not a choice
• Liited if ou oe fo a fail ad ou do't hae help, ou ight iss out o
opportunities that others would have
• Disiiatio i the okplaes, iases i hiig/jo taiig, etoks
• Choies ae ade ogaizatios, ot eploees
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Document Summary
Gender inequality iii in the workplace: ho(cid:449) (cid:373)e(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:373)ake diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)a(cid:396)ee(cid:396) (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)es. Social problems that mainly hurt women: message that what men do and like is more important. Why not similar in the news: turn of the century, 75% of journalists are men, now men account for 64, at first glance this seems to be true, women are more likely to report on social issues, entertainment. Soci 495: progress over last 50 years but its plateauing. More or less equal: the gap at the top (many mentions in the newspaper) has increased. This 5:1 gap, men are more out there more, but the other half is what happens in the media because they are mentioned more. Do we need to account for public interest: is the pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) (cid:373)o(cid:396)e i(cid:374)te(cid:396)ested i(cid:374) fa(cid:373)ous (cid:373)e(cid:374)/(cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374), wikipedia sea(cid:396)(cid:272)hes, the pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) is (cid:373)o(cid:396)e i(cid:374)te(cid:396)ested in famous females than males.
