SOC265H1 Lecture Notes - Marriage Bar, Toronto Star, Dominate
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What gender means to you, issues around identity and expectation. Child storm, not assigning gender to child. How gender has changed and how it looks like today. Discuss: what has changed over time and what does gender look like today. A) the bad old days- the 1950"s. Not okay for women outside of marriage. Risked pregnancy and ruining reputation, before contraception, women responsible for: considering gender differences over time. Jobs advertised for men or women (sex segregation) If you got married (white collar) had to quit teaching job (called marriage bar) Dominate image middle class: women stayed home full time. Women earned 60% of what men earned (earnings gap) Heavy responsibility for men to be responsible for family finances. Men expected to be stoic, not display/ cry in public. Been substanal change of gender over decades, position of women to men has. But men and women still majoring in different fields.
