SA 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Glass Ceiling, Speedstep, System For Information On Grey Literature In Europe

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 335
• Professor: Wendy Chan

Document Summary

How do gender relations shape and get shaped by social institutions? (labour market, politics) Men have historically occupied the important public sphere while women are fond in the invisible private sphere. Fundamental to maintaining patriarchy (men have more authority) Helps to e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) part of (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s histor(cid:455)- the exploitation, suffering and stereotypes. Idea that women lived to stay at home- myth/strengths that was perpetuated to maintain public/private divide. Creates and sustains ideas about gender (servers) Also create to be sustained by gender. Both pro(cid:272)esses (cid:272)o(cid:374)tri(cid:271)ute to (cid:862)ge(cid:374)der regi(cid:373)e(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:374)or(cid:373)s that (cid:373)ake up la(cid:271)our sphere(cid:895) All fmailies have a gendered division of labour. A pre-capitalist phenomenon related to widespread existence of patriarchy. Now separation between public/private-> women getting more marginalized-> industrialization, Paid work: originally unstructured, community based, done for survival women at home, men at factories-> explains wage gap today because at first women were excluded from paid work, only entered when certain values given to certain work they did.