SOC375H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Double Standard
Document Summary
Family pressure and the educational experience of the daughters of vietnamese refugees- zhou, Issues of gender roles in low-income ethnic community. Examining female viet highschool students dealing with traditionalists parents, and how they negotiate gender roles at home and in school and society. Not only equal men"s performance and ambition, but show higher levels of achievement. Importance of education as way for upward mobility encourage educational achievement. Both parents and children struggle to adjust to new environment to combine old and new ways: help adjust to their world, lens of gender. Changes in gender roles: necessity and opportunity. Vietnamese-american women affected by two contradictory forces: increasingly employed outside the home, but desire to maintain cultural continuity. Conflict between traditional cultural attitudes with male dominance and contemporary. American attitudes and economic structures which create pressures for gender equality. 90s: women and men had low level of education attainment, gender gap was substantial.
