SPHR 1072 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Life Insurance, Glass Ceiling
15 May 2018
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Sexism
• An attitude, action or institutional structure that subordinates or limits
a person on the basis of sex
• Justifications/rationalizations
o Natural argument: men are superior because the male animal is
larger than the female, males the aggressive protector of
females
• Cultural sexism: men expected to be in control (leaders and decision
makers, women are expected to play a supportive role)
o Historical brought from other countries
o Historical gender roles in american culture
▪ Laws, worker exploitation, worker roles
o Women played an activist role
▪ Right to own property, right to vote, women active in the
anti-slavery movement
o Twentieth Century
▪ WWII: women majority of workforce
• Women hired to office workers, government
workers, factory workers
▪ Media impacts
• Sexist languages
o Semantic load: negative or positive
▪ Coed: condescending reference when men believed
women lacked intelligence required for college studies
▪ Catty, chick, henpecks, ball and chain, old maid, spinster
o Morphology: diminutive endings or feminization of words
▪ Poetess
▪ Aviatrix: little woman who flies a plane
o Reference or categories
• Male chauvinist
o Person who believes men ought obe leaders and decision
makers and women should be subordinate
• Feminist
o Woman or man who advocates for the personal, social and
economic equality of women
▪ Increase opportunities available for both men and women
as part of the goal of eliminating traditional gender roles
• Androgyny
o Belief that men and women share a variety of human traits that
should be encouraged
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