SOCI 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5.2+5.3: Child Care, Intersectionality, Social Class
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5. 2- gender gap on wages is slow to close. Women remain on wrong side of wage gap. Women make up 49% work force, 59% of low wage workers. Women make . 86 cents to every a man makes. 5. 3- gender, black feminism, and black political economy. Race and class and nation social hierarchies that shaped status and property and power. Gilkes stresses interconnections of group experiences and collective knowledge. James stresses signi cance of using paradigms of intersectionality in interpreting social phenomena. Centering on black women"s experiences: how gender hierarchies affect black women"s income in ways that go beyond simple gender-based wage discrimination. Patterns of consumer racism affect purchasing power: wealth-based approach. Two laws: interracial marriage and intergenerational inheritance of property. As opposed to examining gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation as separate systems of oppression, the construct of intersectionality references how these systems mutually construct one another. Social class hierarchies are most directly associated with property and family matters.
