WGSS 1121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Masculinity
27 Oct 2016
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The way you are supposed to act as a man. Not having the idealized, hegemonic presentation, but they are not challenging it. Notions of masculinity that are pushed off to the edges and seen as alternative. Expressing different type of manhood that is seen as less dominant. If you do not fit the right model of a man you are alienated, bullied, reprimanded, ect. Earn lower grades than women at all grade levels. Graduate college at a lower rate 2:3. Judge their work to be of higher quality (self-evaluations) Accounting for job title, experience, industry and tenure, median pay gap between men and women millennial workers is 2. 2% (people born between. Closing full-time wage gap (78% circa 2015) may be better explained by decline in wages of men aged 25-34 by 20% since 1980 rather than market gains by women. In 2010, women became the majority of workforce for the first time ever (rosin)
