Femnist Perspective Of Inequality Flashcards
What is the Save the Children defenition of gender inequality?
Inequality is dicrimination based off of Gender which results in ome gender being favoured over the other
How many women will be a victim of sexusl violence in their life?
1 in 10 globally
What are the 4 strands of Feminsm?
Liberal
Marxist
Radical
Difference
What wave of Feminsism was the 1870’s to the 1920’s
1st wave
Why was the 1920’s to 1950’s important to feminism?
Women got the right to vote in 1928 and the war allowed women to act as a ‘reserve army of labour’ , proving they could do it
What wave of Feminsm was the 1960’s and 70’s?
2nd wave feminsm
Why were the 80s to early 2000s significant for difference feminists?
Black women began to get a voice
What has been significant about the 2010s for feminism?
Social media has been both positve and negative for feminsism as it provides a platform for ideas but also can exaccebate issues
What are 3 biological ‘explanations’ for gender inquality?
Women are physically weaker
Womens reproductive functions make them unable and unfit for life outside the home
Women are programed to want children and take care of them
What novel was Simone De Beauvoir most famous for?
The second sex
What quote was Simone De Beauvoirs famous for?
‘One is not born, but becomes a woman’ - referring to the idea that we are socialised into becoming our gender roles
What does Simone De Beauvoir argue has lead to women becoming the ‘Other’ (‘The second sex’)
Male power and influence means that women become the ‘other’
What did Kelly and Radford (1996) claim about male violence against women?
They claimed that as male violence usually has an element of sexual power. Even when the violence is not overt, women’s lives are still limited
Why does male violence cause inequality according Kelly and Radford (1996) ?
Women are scared to go outside at night due to the male threat
Why does inequality occur according to liberal feminists?
Inequality occurs as we are socialised into our gender roles at birth, e.g women are encouraged to be subordinate and discouraged from developing strong and positive self-images
Who’s theory best captures the liberal feminst idea the socalisation is the source of inequality?
Anne Oaklys ‘ setting and streaming’ - canalisation, manipulation, verbal appellations and difference in activities
What are the 4 ways we are socialised into our gender roles according to Anne Oakly?
Manipulation
Canalisation
Verbal appellations
Different activities
What does the Fawcett Society’s (2015) survey claim about the gender pay gap?
Tht full-time working women make 17% less than full-time men on average
What did Pierre Bourdieu claim ? (1982)
That women are seen as ‘other’ and sexism is an example of symbolic power
What did Pierre Bourdieu mean when dicussing symbolic voilence in gender relations ? (1982)
The idea and values of men being imposed on women without any real conscious thought, e.g systematic sexism
What example of symbolic violence does Sue Lee (1996) give in support of Bourdieu (1982)
Women being blamed for being raped if they were drunk or dressed ‘provocatively’
What did the Young Foundation (2015) find about gender inequality in society?
They found evidende of systamitic inequalities and deep gender inquality and the situation is getting worse
E.g
27% of Women are payed less than living wage
or poor paternety wage means women are left to do all the childcare
What did Margret Benston (1972 , Radical Feminist) claim about womens role in the home?
She claimed that male breadwinners benfit from the free labour of their partner , however, captalists esssentially gain 2 workers for the price of one, as women run the home
What did Margret Benston (1972) describe women as?
‘Slaves of wage slaves’
