SY101 Chapter Notes -Pink-Collar Worker, Masculinity
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Learning the language of sociology vocabulary on gender. Expressive dimension the set of traits including emotional, passivity, and weakness, seen by functionalists as associated with the female roles of unpaid , wife, mother, and homemaker, particularly limited to the private sphere. Femininity - expectations such as submissiveness, passivity, intuition, emotionality and weakness. Feminization of poverty - feminization of poverty the tendency in canadian society for women at all stages of the adult life cycle to be poorer than men and to be trapped in lives of poverty. In general women are paid less, less upwardly mobile and more dependent on men. Often left with children in divorce single parents. Gender a social category, either masculine or feminine, referring to the social expectations developed and placed upon individuals on the basis of their biological sex. Gender roles for men and women are socially created and learned, and people are not born with them.
