SOC207R Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Second-Wave Feminism, Gallium Arsenide, Color Blindness
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Equality assumption that if everyone is given the exact same opportunities, everyone will flourish. Equity supporting some people more than others based on need, in order for the end result to be the same. There is no one size fits all . Some students just need more help than others for different reasons. Not a single and unified way of looking at the world. All feminist theories are interested in the construct of gender. All feminist theories challenge the idea that the subordination of women is natural and inevitable (biological in nature) Education first area targeted for reform and rethinking by feminist. Feminists were interested in: how education disadvantaged women, how education perpetuated the wage gap, the connections between education and other gendered patterns of inequality. Period of activism in the early 20th century around securing the vote for women. Second wave refers to the activism beginning in the 1960s.
