HREQ 3890 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Pink-Collar Worker, Grammatical Gender, Symbolic Interactionism
6 May 2015
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Sexism: the belief that innate psychological, behavioural and or intellectual differences exist between women and men and that these differences connote the superiority of one group and the inferiority of the other. Double or triple jeopardy -when a person is member of two or more minority groups. 60 million young girls, mainly in asia, are listed as missing. One in three women have been abused, beaten or coerced into sex. Women have had to fight for equality: the right to vote, equal pay for comparable work, quality of education, Women, out of biological necessity, remained in the home to bear, nurse and care for children. Men, physically stronger and abel to stay away from home for longer, were responsible for providing food, Queer theory perspective : contesting approaches to gender that take as obvious two gender and that the two must be defined in opposition to each other.
