gender: weberian

Question 1

Weberian theory on gender:

Answer 1

• Weberian theory looks at how women are more likely to work in low-status jobs.
• This is because their domestic role as housewives and mothers doesn’t carry status.

Question 2

Occupational segregation

Answer 2

Helps explain how gender inequalities occur through horizontal and vertical segregation.

Question 3

Horizontal segregation:

Answer 3

• The difference of male and females present across occupations.
• This has a strong influence on young people’s career options depending on how their gender is represented.
• E.g. 75% of School teachers are female and 13.7% of engineers are female

Question 4

2 types of occupational segregation:

Answer 4

• vertical
• horizontal

Question 5

Reasons for horizontal segregation:

Answer 5

• Individual differences – human capital
• Influences from parents and teachers
• Discrimination by teachers
• Barriers within organisations and institutions

Question 6

Vertical segregation:

Answer 6

When men dominate high ranking jobs in most careers

Question 7

Reasons for vertical segregation:

Answer 7

• Glass ceiling = invisible barriers that stop women from achieving power and success
• Concrete ceiling = This is barriers for ethnic minority women
• Glass elevator = Men rise higher and faster in the career ladder than women even in female dominated jobs

Question 8

Hidden advantages for men in society:

Answer 8

• Gender stereotypes work out in favour of men
• Women are seen as emotion, men are seen as ration (creates stereotype that men have better decision making)
• Women’s expectations in the family – they expect women to get pregnant and need time of work to care for a baby

Question 9

Barron and Norris:

Answer 9

• Dual labour market explains female employment patterns.
• Primary market = secure, well-paid, good promotions (male dominated)
• Secondary labour market = Low pay, poor job security (female dominated)

Question 10

Evaluations of Weberian theory:

Answer 10

• Weberian doesn’t explain why men and women end up in different sectors of the labour market.
• Post-modernists – There is not longer consensus about what is a high and low status – nroms are much more fluid now and they aren’t fixed.