SOC 103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Japanese Canadians, Gender Binary, Marxist Feminism
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Gender, sexuality, and even sex are social facts. A social fact: a way of acting, whether fixed or changing, that exerts an external or objective constraint on individuals, by virtue of being general throughout society. Men make a significant amount more than women. Women predict their starting salaries will be 14% less than those that men predict for themselves. This is accurate: in 2005, average income for young women entering the canadian labour market, employed on a full-time full-year basis, was 85% of their male (cid:272)ou(cid:374)terparts(cid:859) a(cid:448)erage i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)es. Gendered occupational segregation: the division of men and women into different types of jobs in the labor market. In 2006, 67% of all working women (vs. 30% of all working men) were teachers, nurses, secretaries, or in sales and service. Women made up 87% of nurses and health-related therapists, 64% of teachers, 57% of sales and service personnel.
