GSWS 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fortune Global 500, Peer Pressure

• School: UPenn
• Department: Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies
• Course: GSWS 122
• Professor: Professor

Document Summary

Notes on the reading assignment (connell & pearse chapter 1) From the start the author addresses the difference in clothing and the behaviour that is a result of what they wear (both men and women look beautiful; but women are going. Women"s bodies = visual elements, but are less likely to be producing this content (eg wikipedia less than 15% of writers are women) Women have less internet access than me, but less of a gap in more developed nations. Women are a minority in politics (never been a woman head in russia, china , france , Women are most concentrated in service jobs/lower down the hierarchy, despite being a major part of the workforce. Women do most of the unpaid domestic and care work (follows cultural definition of women as good mothers caring, gentle, self sacrificing) Women are less likely to be out and there is a pay gap pe(zambia has the largest pay gap, then korea)