SOC 100 Lecture 14: Week 07 Notes
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Common sense - dimorphism ( two forms ); particular personal traits naturally correspond with dimorphic gender categories (regardless of other factors like time/place) Sex - the biological differences between the males and females of the human species; socially trivial. Gender - social relations commonly attributed to differences between males and females; do. To gender (verb) - the process by which certain roles, activities, qualities, traits, emotions, or objects acquire masculine or feminine meanings. To do gender (verb) - enacting those activities, qualities, and traits that mark oneself as belonging to a particular gender category. Women"s economic opportunity - a set of laws, regulations, practices, customs, and attitudes that allow women to participate in the workforce under conditions roughly equal to those of men. The motherhood penalty - the gap in pay between working mothers and women without children; after controlling for everything else that plays a role in wage gaps (education, occupation, race/ethnicity, etc. )
