SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Masculinity, Abscissa And Ordinate, Tokenism
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Soc263 lecture 5 gender & sexuality inequality. Masculinity is a category of privilege: in power to vote, in economic privileges to own land, property. They need to be selected as candidates by their parties. They need to be selected by voters: some of the barriers that prevent women success in areas like politics is due to previous trends for example: Women hold a large share of household and domestic responsibilities. Women have been socialized to view politics as undesirable: women are highly represented in law, academia and medicine, also they are less represented in the top hierarchy in the business world. Women and the victorian: ideology production in a set of values and ideas within real life, many social structures influence people to uphold specific gender associations. Role of industrialization: created t(cid:449)o disti(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) (cid:373)e(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:449)ork, assigned paid work to a man and unpaid work to a woman. Divides women and men with labor rewards.
