SOCC38H3 Lecture : Week 9 Lecture
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Men"s fields in university: management, math, engineering, computer, political science, philosophy, physics. Women fields in university: sociology, gender studies, biology, health studies, nursing, social work, teaching/elementary education. Characteristics of men-dominated fields: practical, technical, rational. Interpersonal: theory, activist, nurturing/caring, critical, social justice, tolerance, patience, open-minded. Gender studies: gender roles reversed video clip: women behave in stereotypical male ways, and men behave in stereotypical female ways, there"s more freedom for a woman to behave in male ways, whereas men are more constrained. associated with passing people of lighter skin tone. women were finding that they had to become more masculine in order to make it in this world www. notesolution. com. If they were feminine, they were not legitimate in this community and often excluded. e. g. woman stopped wearing skirts in the lab and started wearing pants changed her gender identity and behaviour. Learning to wear pants and not skirts in order to better fit in.
