SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sheryl Sandberg, Typical Male, Tokenism
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Gender and age: the universal bases of social differentiation. These roles are not allocated by gender, our distinctions between male and female is determined by our society. As long as these key roles are performed, it doesn"t matter who does what. Gender is a social construct, it"s a set of ideas of what it means to be female or male. Gender and the role of choice in post-secondary education. The kind of school students have attended didn"t matter: public or private selective or not high-ranking or not research university or liberal arts college. **need to consider gender educational choices: i. e. , the choice of major. Example: nurses tend to be women while engineers tend to be men. Not just a di erence, it"s a gender inequality. Men are selecting themselves to be in a better position since engineering pays very well. On the other hand, women selected themselves into a profession that does not pay very well as engineering.