SOC102H1 Chapter 4: social problems chapter 4 notes
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Male"/"female" are not discrete biological categories, but more opposite poles along a continuum of sexual variation www. notesolution. com. Masculinity/femininity gender roles the patterns of behaviour that a society expects of males and females and that all members of the society learn, to a greater or lesser extent, as part of the socialization process. Most important difference between men and women (sociologically) is that women can bear children: nancy chodorow, reproduction of mothering (1978) explains women"s subordination by the fact that women mother. Most babysitters and non-household family members who help" with child care are female. Women"s lives are complicated with the birth of a child www. notesolution. com. Problems of structural sexism structural socialism the ways social institutions outside the home treat men and women differently. with the war"s end, men returned and expected their jobs back: many women were happy to return to their caregiver role, however others sought to continue working.
