IDST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: United States Agency For International Development, Gender Mainstreaming, Sex Selection
15 Dec 2016
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Gender is a social construct, sex biological. Gender is a set of relationships that organize societies into: relations between women and men, and relations between women, men, and the tasks that they perform in a society. Social, political, and economic forces shape what being a man" or woman" means in everyday life. Gender reflects power relations is a key feature of many political struggles. Gendered understandings and behaviour continue to shape the choices of women and their economic impact. Belinda stronach, david emerson both defected from their original political party to receive a seat on the cabinet his decision was normalized, while hers was abnormal (unwomanly) Public life realm of politics, markets (male-dominated), private life domestic realm (female-dominated. Women are hugely underrepresented in positions of power. Patriarchal thought prescribes power and authority to men, patriarchy is constructed and maintained through political and cultural practices and public policy.
