SOC101Y1 Chapter : Gender Inequality Notes
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Social roles: behaviors expected of people occupying particular social positions. In the 20th century, enormous change in attitudes, expectations, behaviors, and social roles of men and women in canada. But persistence of gender inequalities: hierarchical asymmetries between women and men in terms of distribution of power, material wellbeing and prestige. y y y. In the 1950s, women s roles were those of wives and mothers. In contrast, men were expected to have paying jobs, and be the provider for family as well as head of the household . Gender inequality is reinforced by gender stereotypes: set of prejudicial biologically based generalizations about men and women in terms of personality traits and behavior. Persistence of polarized gender stereotypes is supported by research. Yet, gender-related identities and behaviors are largely socially constructed and continually altered through social interaction. y gives rise to notions of masculinity or femininity : cultural prescriptions for behavior based on biological sex.
