Sociology 2169 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bc Hydro, Sex Segregation
8 Feb 2017
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That advantage and disadvantage, exploitation and control, action and emotion, and meaning and identity are pattered through and in terms of a distinction between male and female, masculine and feminine. And these distinctions unavoidably perpetuate gender inequalities. Rosemary canter: women aren"t disadvantaged cause they are women it is because they don"t have access to the power: low level positions. Argues that organizations are conceptualized, designed, and controlled by men, to reflect men"s interests. Gendered processes: page 33 in reader: the production of gender dol. Image of a successful manager: typically see a male, but if you see a picture of a administrative assistant. You may see a younger white females. Interactions between individuals: the construction of symbols and images, gendered components of individual identity, organizational logic. Jobs and hierarchies are based on abstract categories with no occupants, gender, human bodies, sexuality. Acker: workers cannot be disembodied because they have deeply sexed gendered bodies. Disembodied/abstract worker is actually the male worker.
