SOC265H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Occupational Segregation, Jean Kilbourne, Killing Us Softly
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Patriarchy: household where men have direct power over every single person under his house hold (small scale production in the household, all the work was done in the household and the land around the household) The male and women were both essentials to the household. Husbands and wives were under the influence of structural influences of inequalities: men own the property, the essential for survival (only ones in society who could) Thus women were depended on men and depended on women: men had the incentive to exercise power over others in the household. Because men and women were working together, it was easy for men to exercise authority over women. Men needed their wives as resistance to do what they needed to do in the household (economically important) March 7th 2013: competitive threat to men, because women could replace men (cheaper to pay women, the campaign for a family wage paid to men, large enough to support.
