LABR 1F90 Lecture Notes - Glass Ceiling
6 Mar 2014
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male and female try not to use these unless you are talking gender. Socially constructed = created, maintained, or changed by people. Therefore, gender refers to our ideas about women and men, boys and girls. And how we put those ideas into practice ** key concept. Ideas about race and work are undoubtedly socially-constructed. **for our purposes both sex and race are socially construced. 1 - gender and race are experienced at work and beyond. 2 - a woman manager may be seen as pushy and a male manager may be viewed as persuasive. Gender andd race are performed at work and beyond. These all convey gendered and/or racialized meanings. Gender and race are used to organize work and workers. There may be a gendered division of labour **key concept. Work and tasks are divided based on gender. It then changed after time - think about the show mad men - gender division.
