SY203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Human Reproduction, Gender Inequality
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Gender inequality: unequal access to power, property and prestige on the basis of sex. Se(cid:272)o(cid:374)dar(cid:455) se(cid:454) (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s: ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al disti(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) (cid:373)ales a(cid:374)d fe(cid:373)ales that are(cid:374)"t connected to reproduction, occurs at puberty. Is a device by which society controls its members. Controls excess to power, property, and prestige. Sex-typed: every society associates certain activities with one sex or the other. Prestige not the work that provides prestige but the gender that the work is associated with: men-typed jobs carry more prestige. Universal physical differences between genders together with universal social conditions account for patriarchy: men are naturally stronger coaxed to be warriors with promise of reward of women, women were excluded from combat socialized into submissiveness. Functionalist: different roles in family and society typically played by men and women as distinct and as necessary for well-being, derives from biological explanations. Conflict: differences in families, workplaces, and social institutions are based on power differences between genders.
