SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes -Occupational Segregation, Marxist Feminism, Gender Inequality
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Social roles: behaviours expected of people occupying particular social positions. In 20th century, enormous change in attitudes, expectations, behaviours, and social roles of men and women in canada. Hierarchical asymmetries between women and men in terms of distribution of power, material wellbeing, and prestige. Gender inequality is reinforced by gender stereotypes: Set of prejudicial biologically-based generalizations about men and women in terms of personality traits and behaviour. Persistence of polarized gender stereotypes is supported by research. Yet , gender-related identities and behaviours largely socially constructed and continually altered through social interaction* Socially constructed nature of gender identities means gender identities: Need not be congruent with sex assigned at birth. Are not polar opposites (despite notion of opposite sex ), but can operate on a continuum of masculinity and femininity (there are degrees of masculinity and femininity) A fixation of the alleged opposed characteristics of men and women is evident in such phrases as the opposite sex .
