Lecture 18-19 M2

Question 1

What is the second hypothesis about the gender wage gap and what does data show?

Answer 1

• women place more value on non-pecuniary aspects of job
• compared to men this is true
• but educational and occupational choices are the driving force

Question 2

What choices are driving the wage gap?

Answer 2

-educational and occupational

Question 3

What is hypothesis 3 and what does data show?

Answer 3

• gender stereotypes in workplaces cause more value to be placed on men’s employment
• historically yes, women’s jobs have been undervalued thus under paid
• discrimination based on gender exists in some workplaces

Question 4

What is hypothesis 4 and what does the data show?

Answer 4

• women’s greater family responsibilities lead them to choose better work life balance
• this is true for women, may choose part time
• choices is a qualifier tho, so do they really have choice?

Question 5

What could we do to help the gender wage gap?

Answer 5

Put in policies that help women diversify their educational and occupational choices

Question 6

What is the women’s second shift

Answer 6

• unpaid work for household and caregiving responsibilities
• called “women’s” second shift because most of this work is done by women
• what’s a mother’s work worth?
• shows that unpaid work is a lot of hours

Question 7

Has the increased participation of women in the labour force led to a renegotiation of traditional household roles?

Answer 7

Yes, but women still do more

Question 8

What has data shown about people’s attitudes on household division of labour shown?

Answer 8

Attitudes on gender equality are changing

Question 9

What has empirical research shown for distribution of household duties with more women working?

Answer 9

Women who are employed still retain primary responsibility for child care, elderly, housework

Question 10

How do women occupy a double ghetto?

Answer 10

• pink collar ghetto of paid labour

- domestic ghetto of unpaid labour

Question 11

Is the gender revolution stalled?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

In what sense has the gender revolution stalled?

Answer 12

• women’s household work has not reduced in proportion to their increase work in the labour force
• labour market segmentation persists
• cross over of women to men jobs has not been met with men to women jobs
• still have gender wage gap
• traditional gender roles of men as breadwinner and women as home

Question 13

What is the feminization of poverty

Answer 13

Women represent a large proportion of the poor

Question 14

Why do women represent a large number of the poor?

Answer 14

• lower incomes
• over represented among seniors with low incomes
• over representation of lone parent families

Question 15

What is the implication for children of more women being poor?

Answer 15

More children are poor, those with female lone parents

Question 16

What theories did Talcott Parsons believe?

Answer 16

Structural functionalism

Question 17

What did Talcott Parsons day about gender?

Answer 17

Men and women play complementary roles that promote social integration of families and society

Question 18

What does feminist sociological theory say?

Answer 18

-advocates social equality for women and men in opposition to patriarchy and sexism

Question 19

Define patriarchy

Answer 19

Form of social organization in which males dominate females

Question 20

Define sexism

Answer 20

The belief that one “sex” is innately superior to the other

Question 21

What is the goal of feminist sociological theory?

Answer 21

Elimination of gender stratification

Question 22

What does the belief in sexism provide?

Answer 22

An ideological basis for patriarchy

Question 23

What are ideologies

Answer 23

Cultural beliefs that can justify social stratification

Question 24

Is ideology biological or cultural?

Answer 24

Cultural

Question 25

What do feminist say we need to eliminate?

Answer 25

Sexism and patriarchy