Chapter 10 : Social Work with Women: A Feminist Approach Flashcards
Suffragette movement
late 19th and 20th campaigns run by women for the right to vote.
Maternal Feminists
Feminists who argue that because of woman’s special roles as mother and homemaker, she has an obligation and a right to participate in the public sphere. although they brought women into public life and social work, the early maternal feminists now tend to be viewed as conservative, insofar as they support more tradition conceptions of the family in which women were expected to stay at home.
Equal-Pay Policies
Polices that ensure equal pay for equal work. During the 1950s and 1960s , every Canadian province enacted legislation requiring that women receive equal pay for similar or substantially similar work. During the 1970s both Quebec and the federal government introduced pay equity legislated that required equal pay for work of equal value (allowing comparisons between occupations). In the 1980s, most other jurisdictions followed suit, at least with respect to public sector employment.
Equal Employment
the legislation prohibits discrimination on basis of race, age, religion, nationality, and sex. Canadian provinces and the federal government have equal employment opportunity legislation in place, usually as part of their human rights codes. The prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex was generally added during the 1960s and 1970s
Employment Equity
The use of hiring policies, procedures, and programs to increase employment opportunities for groups previously denied advancement. Designed to help employment and promotion opportunities for women and other marginalized groups, employment equity was not introduced in Canada until the 1980s
Gender
Gender has two components, first gender identity, which is the sense we have of ourselves as male, female, or transgendered;
the second is gender role, which is our adherence to cultural norms of femininity and masculinity. This is in contrast to sex, which is biological and determined by genetics.
Gender Equality
The belief that women and men should live in an environment that affords them equal opportunities to realize full human rights; to contribute to national, political, economic, social, and cultural development; and to benefit form the results of that development. To achieve this goal, equity programs provide measures to compensate women for previous historical and social disadvantages.
Sexism
Similar to the dynamics of racism, the individual and institutional belief that men are superior to women. When this belief is put into action, women are considered to be less worth or capable because they do not think and act as men i a society that privileges male behaviours and characteristics.
Patriarchy
Literally meaning “rule by the father”, in a broader sense, patriarchy has come to mean the domination of society by men. Men are still the major stakeholders in society, men continue to represent in higher numbers in positions of authority, and men’s interests continue to take precedence over those of women.
Consciousness-raising groups
Groups that employ the concept of conscious-raising, or the process by which people become aware of and understand shared experiences of restriction or damage by certain practices, patterns of relations, beliefs, stereotypes, myths, expectations, and social structures. In consciousness-raising groups people begin to understand the relationships between their own biographies, other people’s biographies, history, and the social infrastructure.
Sexual assult
any form of unwanted sexual activity that is forced upon another person without obtaining that person’s consent. Sexual assault includes a wide range of physical and non-physical sexual acts that are defines as criminal under the Criminal Code
Sexual harassment
any behaviour, comment, gesture, or contact of sexual nature in which someone is treated as a sexual object. Unlike sexual assault, which is criminal, sexual harassment falls under civil law.
Acquaintance sexual assault (date rape)
also called date rape, acquaintance sexual assault involves an assailant who is know to the victim. Forty percent o victims of sexual assault were assaulted by a friend or casual acquaintances. They type of assault is highly unreported.
- in addition to trauma
- self doubt
- self-blame
- betrayal of trust
- lack of confidence in her/his ability to make judgments and good decisions
Feminization of Poverty
A concept that captures the overall demographic trend that the number of women in poverty is increasing faster than that of man.
Poverty gap
The amount of additional income that would be required to raise an individual or household above the LICO; poverty rates alone do not show whether poor people are living in abject poverty or merely a few dollars below the poverty line.
Power theory
A feminist-based theory explaining that wife abuse is a societal problem that occurs because of the power imbalance between men and women, specifically because of the dominance of men and men;s roles. this theory argues that wife abuse continues because there has been historical acceptance of abuse and of men’s right to control women, even by force.
