SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gender Binary, System On A Chip, Social Change
5 Apr 2017
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What is gender: the gender binary, does gender difference produce gender inequality, anne-fausto sterling, challenging the gender binary, the soc construction of the sexed body. Interplanetary theory of gender difference: men are from mars and women from venus. Men and women are opposites who exhibit complete and universal gender difference. This suggests that we are diff in the sense that we are not even from the same species and stuff. The cartoons made of the women and male brains show us that there is clear cut differences b. w the two of us which creates everyday gender differences b. w the two of us. Rates for ab women and single mothers are much higher the wage gap that exists within jobs is an issue the gendered labour structure of wage is a problem the women would have to work. Making gender (inequality) visible for w and m: studying gender does not equal studying women.
