Chapter 10 Flashcards
Beauty myth
Striving to be physically attractive to men is the key to women’s happiness; Women should measure their worth in terms of physical appearance; Women should prize relationships with men attracted with their beauty
Glass ceiling
an unofficially acknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession, especially affecting women and members of minorities
Comparable worth
the principle that men and women should be compensated equally for work requiring comparable skills, responsibilities, and effort
Intersection theory
- Interplay of race, class, and gender, resulting in multiple dimensions of disadvantage.
- Disadvantages linked to gender and race often combine to produce low social standing.
- Multilayered system is disadvantage for some and privilege for others
Liberal feminism
Free to develop own talents and interests
Socialist feminism
Family form must change with some collective means of carrying out housework and childcare
Radical feminism
An egalitarian, gender-free society
Gender
Personal traits and social positions members of a society attach to being female and male
Patriarchy
Form of social organization in which males dominate females
Matriarchy
Form of social organization in which females dominate males
Gender role
Are attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex
Structural-functional on gender (Talcott Parsons)
- Gender forms a complementary set of roles.
- Socialization stresses instrumental qualities for males and expressive qualities for females
- Assumes singular view of society
- Ignores personal strain and social costs of rigid gender roles
- May espouse male domination of women
Friedrich Engels on gender
- Social-conflict analysis
- Capitalism strengthens male domination.
- Gender involves differences in power
- Capitalist economy depends on development of consumers
- Strongly critical of conventional ideas about gender
- Minimizes the extent to which women and men live together cooperatively
- Suggests capitalism is the basis of gender stratification
