SOC 1101 Study Guide - Sexual Differentiation, Gender Identity, Gender Pay Gap
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Chapter 10 sex and gender: gender is a social construction. Feel they are opposite sex from that of their sex organs. Western societies only recognize female and male gender where as some other societies have three, male, female and berdaches which is males who behave as women. Earliest division in labour was hunter-gathering; men hunt for game women gather berries. In herding societies women"s main role is to carry more men to be able to herd. In agrarian societies they rely on agriculture; women are often excluded because they are too weak for the labour. An industrial society is one in which factory or mechanized production has replaced agriculture as the major form of economic activity. Most visible for women as nurses, secretary"s and men as carpenters and mechanics. Calculated by dividing women"s earnings by men"s to yield a percentage (earnings ratio) Explained by differences in worker characteristics such as experience, type of occupation, workplace characteristics.
