SOC 2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lawrence Summers, Jeff Lorber, Occupational Segregation
30 Aug 2016
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Social meaning we attach to each sex: 2 extreme views about relationship between sex and gender. Sex = gender (male=masculine, female = feminine, nature ) Sex gender (social construction, nurture, male doesn"t equal. Larry summers controversy masculine: summers = former president of harvard, former secretary of the treasurer under. Clinton: 3 hypotheses as to why women are underrepresented in science. Demanding jobs are hard to do while also taking care of kids. Women do more with kids- makes it harder to have high- Variation in natural aptitude at high end of distribution. Suggests that test scores show difference between men and women in respects to the higher ends of scores- women score lower. Infers that women innately cannot do as well in. Gender roles prevent women from doing jobs that men usually do (young girls end up doing the jobs they see their moms doing)
