SY4 - Gender Inequalities Flashcards
Steinem (1992)
Women make up a fifth world at greater risk of subsistence poverty, poor healthcare, and exploitation in sweatshops and the sex trade.
Leonard (1992)
Women in developed and developing nations are worse off than men in terms of power, pay, work hours and responsibility. Women in developing nations experience a much more sever form of patriarchy. Wage based labour centred around cash crops benefitted men and further marginalised women.
Van der Gaag (2004) (anti-modernist theory)
Birth of boys is celebrated, whereas the birth of girl babies is less valued, less likely to go to school and often killed - e.g. China and the ‘one child policy’.
Mies (1986)
TNCs seeking highest profit margins by using developing nations workforces unprotected by employment legislation. As 90% of the factory workers are women, TNCs exploit women with low wages and poor working conditions.
Foster Carter (1993) (Marxist feminist)
Benefits of modernisation (greater access to education, own wages, less arranged marriage) at balanced out by other forms of inequality at work.
Cohen and Kennedy (2000) (post modern feminist)
Believe western feminists have an ethnocentric view. They point to feminists who address the common threats to all women in both the developed and developing world in the age of globalisation - e.g. sex trafficking, increased threat of being victims of environmental pollutants and the worst affected by the global debt crisis.
Willmott and Young.
Research into conjugal roles. Concluded the traditionally segregated roles of the last were breaking down and being replaced by increasingly symmetrical or ‘egalitarian’ roles.
Dryden.
Women did proportionately more than men, even when women were in full-time work.
Hardill.
Found middle-class wives still look to their husbands when making major decisions.
Mirrless-Black.
Found 70% of reported domestic violence is men against women.
