SY101 Lecture Notes - Glass Ceiling, Informal Sector, Psychological Abuse
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Some people say it is because we are born this way which would be the biological perspective. Nurture versus nature controversy plays a role in why males and females differ. If the reason was only biological, all women would be the same and all men would be the same however this is not the case. Around the world, gender is the primary division between people. The first wave of women"s movements was focused towards the right to vote (1917), trade unions, political processes, educational systems. Women were once told to study 1/3 as much as men did because women were seen as frail, also advised not to study during menstruation. Emily stowe became canada"s first female physician after being denied to canadian medical schools because of her gender, but accepted to an american medical school. Girls were not welcomed in shop classes (1960"s).
