LESSON 4 Flashcards
It is the process through which children learn about the social expectations, attitudes and behaviors typically associated with boys and girls.
Gender Socialization
What are the 6 types of Gender?
• Sexual Orientation
• Gender Identity
• Gender Expression
• Transgender
• Gender Transition
• Gender Dysphoria
It is an inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people.
Sexual Orientation
Note: an individual’s _________ is independent of their gender identity.
Sexual Orientation
It is the one’s innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves.
Gender Identity
One’s _______ can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth..
Gender Identity
It is the external appearance of one’s gender identity, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, body characteristics or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either masculine or feminine.
Gender Expression
It is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or expression is different from cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth.
Transgender
Being _____ does not imply any specific sexual orientation.
Transgender
Therefore, _____ people may identify as straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc.
Transgender
The process by which some people strive to more closely align their internal knowledge of gender with its outward appearance.
Gender Transition
Some people _____ _____, whereby they might begin dressing, using names and pronouns and/or be socially recognized as another gender.
socially transition
Others undergo _______ in which they modify their bodies through medical interventions.
Physical transition
Clinically significant distress caused when a person’s assigned birth gender is not the same as the one with which they identify.
Gender Dysphoria
It emphasizes environmental conditions and the influence of socialization, or the process of transferring norms, values, beliefs, and behaviors to group members, in learning how to behave as a male or female.
Gender role theory
What are the 3 types of gender theories?
• Nuclear Family
• Socialization
• Division of labor
A family unit consisting of at most a father, mother and dependent children.
Nuclear Family
It is the process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it.
Socialization
It is the dividing and specializing of cooperative labor into specifically circumscribed tasks and roles.
Division of labor
It is a development perspective that recognizes the unequal status and situation of women and men in society.
Gender and Development (GAD)
Women and men have different development needs and interests, which is _____ and perpetuated by cultural, social, economic and political norms, systems and structures.
Institutionalized
Provide the elements of equality between women and men.
- Equality of opportunity and treatment in employment.
- Equal remuneration for work of equal value
- Equal access to safe and healthy working
environments and to social security. - Equality in association and collective bargaining.
- Equality in obtaining meaningful career
development. - A balance between work and home life that is
fair to both women and men. - Equal participation in decision-making at all.
levels
It is the act of being sensitive to the ways people think about gender.
Gender Sensitivity
Tries to ensure that people rely less on assumptions about traditional and outdated views on the roles of men and women.
Gende Sensitivity
What is the worldwide system that predates history?
Patriarchy
The _____ is the most powerful force in the world today, trumping other ideologies or political systems or religious beliefs.
Patriarchy
By its very nature, it is rooted in the _____ of women.
subjugation
______ cultures uphold the privileges of men based on gender, social structures, religious practices, and legal codes.
Patriarchal
Even though men are more privileged under patriarchy than women, some men are more privileged than others. These differences vary according to the culture with its class subsystems and, of course, the castes based on physical characteristics like skin color and sextant ____ be changed.
cannot
These subsystems can also be based on lineage, on religion, or on wealth. Women within the subsystems, however, always occupy a _____ than their male counterparts.
lower status
Patriarchal Institutions:
• Family
• Religion
• Legal System
• Economic System
• Political System
• Media
• Knowledge System
A set of qualities, characteristics or roles generally considered typical of, or appropriate to, a man.
Masculinity
Ex: being aggressive, macho, angry, brave, virile, being in control.
Masculinity
Expectation of what a ‘real’ man should act and look like …. But no one actually is.
Masculinity
Biological factors, culturally constructed.
Masculinity
