SOCIOL 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Medicalization, Elder Abuse, Child Neglect
Document Summary
Almost everything that happens in the family is due to gender relations. There is still a high level of expectations because of gender. A lot of males because house husbands and then eventually went into female based jobs. Women were living the reality of being the breadwinner in the family. The reality is they shifted roles so they could have a family and worked full time in a professional job. Couples have underlying gender expectations that they didn"t even realize. You have expectations about how your life is going to play out, and when the gender roles switched and they did not like it. Feminism has said that were have changed, and we have made great gains towards equality. There are underlying feelings that we accept we didn"t even realize. Feminism says that its easy to change the law, but it is those internalized values that is hard to change.
