SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Equal Pay For Equal Work, Glass Ceiling, Misogyny
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Natural or biological basis for differences for roles, social status, behaviors, attitudes associated with females and males i. e. natural for women. To have social positions and/or incomes that reflect these natural abilities. To support families (to make more money) Nature as a cause of gender differences - should be questioned. Efforts to identify physiological origins have been inconclusive (and often wrong) Hard to link complex social behaviors to specific biological forces. Differences within gender are as great as than differences between gender. If we see gender as a social construction. Biology can be considered raw material of what we become as people - represents multiple potentialities rather than fixed outcomes. Gender socialization encourages males and females to be different from each other- minimizing commonalities between members of different gender. Gender inequalities are institutionally sustained and therefore can be institutionally reversed. We should reconceptualize men and women as distinct social groups.
