HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Marital Rape, Gender Identity

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS202
• Professor: Bahira Sherif Trask

Document Summary

Women are the stronger sex, biologically speaking. Boys are more group-centered, active and aggressive than girls. Women are more socialized to show emotion than men, not necessarily more emotional. Women suffer from more depression more often than men. Women are more likely to disclose personal information. Women feel confident about their finances - false. A heart attack is more fatal for women than men because symptoms are different. When we meet people we instinctively place them in the male/female category - what happens when we can"t place someone in a category - uncomfortable. Many more are working and having careers. Sexual harassment is against the law (1976) Marital rape against the law in most states. Sex refers to biological/physical attributes with which we are born: anatomical, hormonal, chromosomes. Gender refers to the learned roles, attitudes and behaviors that characterize people of one sex or the other.