SY101 Chapter 8: Inequalities of Gender (1)
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Inequalities of sex and gender: gender inequality is males" and females" unequal access to property, power, and prestige on the basis of sex. Sex refers to male or female, while gender refers to femininity or masculinity. It opens an closes access to power, property, and even prestige. Like social class, gender is a structural feature of society. If biology were the principal factor in human behaviour, we would find women around the world to be one sort of person and men another. Ideas of gender vary greatly from culture to culture. Sociologists still acknowledge that biological factors may be involved in some human behaviour other than reproduction and child-bearing. Feminist sociologists alice rossi suggested that women are better prepared biologically for. Sociologists classify females as a minority group: people question this since there are more women in the world than men but minorities are not based on size but rather discrimination based on characteristics.
