SOCI 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Arab Culture, Gender Pay Gap, The Second Sex
2 Nov 2017
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Lecture #3 Feminism and Intersectionality analysis
Social Stratification and Gender Inequality
Common sense Sociology
- Men are just better leaders. God/Nature Evidence?
destined men to superior to women
- Women are naturally suited care givers
- Woa eed to stop oplaiig … its
ood’s fault
Gender
- Feminism Equal opportunities for women
and men. One is not born a woman/man
- Equality for women and men. One becomes one.
Ex. Wage gap, glass ceiling, etc. Gender essentialism
First Wave of Feminism
Mostly white upper and middle-class women advocating for change
The Seneca Falls Women Rights Convention, on July 14, 1848
Other groups of women were excluded from voting
Right to vote
The 19th Amendment, 1919
Woe’s Right to ote
Most significance outcome of the first wave
Concerns /w nation-wide legislation
Abolition of Slavery (1807 and 1833)
In 1833 Parliament passed a further act to abolish slavery in the British West Indies
2nd Wave, sisterhood and Solidarity
- 1960, civil rights, anti-apartheid struggles
- Independence movements in S.S Africa Ghana, under K. Nkrumah, first in the sub-region to gain
independence in 1957
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