SOC101Y1 : Reading Lec 10 - Gender Inequality
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7: fact that gender is largely learned and that its content is continually altered through social interact had three implications, gender identities and behaviours are not stable and fixed. Three dimensions of inequality: power; material well-being involves access to economic resources necessary to pay for food, clothing, housing, and other possessions and advantages. 2 important sources of material well being: work related earnings and accumulated wealth; and prestige: social scarification classification of persons into groups based on shared socio- economic conditions leads to gender inequality. Impersonal discrimination statistical discrimination process whereby employers make decisions about whether to hire and how much to pay any given www. notesolution. com. January 13th, 2011. women on the basis of the employers" perceptions of the average characteristics of all women: women"s movement social movement that takes action to improve the status of women feminism important part of women"s movement.
