POLB91H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Me Too Movement
POLB91 – lecture 9
Objectives
• Me too movement
• Soft and hard repression
• Perform genders
Gender development
• Edu too – women not allowed in uni til like late 1970s
• Employment is a big diff too
o Female lawyers and how judges only saw them to be able to represent other
women and were asked to sit down instead of stand
Time poverty
- Women do unpaid work domestically on chore work like taking care of kids etc
- A lot of doesti workers also do’t get proteted y the law
Gender based movements
ME TOO MOVEMENT → used on social media to help demonstrate the widespread prevalence
of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace.[1] It followed soon after the public
revelations of sexual misconduct allegationsagainst Harvey Weinstein.[2]
+ encourage and empower movement
deconstructing gender
- Sex is biological; gender is social
- Gender is a continuum
Mainstreaming gender equality
- Undervalue women and their works
- Non monetizing their works leads to fewer wealth and their relationship with
development
- Neglected social construction with gender
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- Mainstreaming gender equality and process
o Processing implications for men and women
o Strategy for making their experiences in policies and programs so they can
benefit equality
o And inequality is not prevalent
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