Unit 9 Flashcards
a model of marriage in which women and children are owned by men
Patriarch/Property Marriage
a model of marriage that involves a wage-earning spouse supporting a stay-at-home spouse and children
Breadwinner/Homemaker Marriage
an income, paid to a man, that is large enough to support a non-working wife and children
Family wage
promoting heterosexuality as the only or preferred sexual identity, making other sexual desires invisible or casting them as inferior
Heteronormative
the idea that the home is a feminine space best tended by women and work is a masculine space best suited to men
Ideology of separate spheres
promoting monogamy, or the requirement that spouses have sexual relations only with each other
Mononormative
promoting childbearing and stigmatizing choosing to go child-free
Pro-natal
the production of unjust outcomes for people who perform femininity
Androcentrism
a relationship model based on love and companionship between equals
Partnership unions
the production of unjust outcomes for people perceived to be biologically female
Sexism
a research method in which participants are asked to self-report their activities at regular intervals over at least twenty-four hours
Time-use diary
the form of masculinity that constitutes the most widely admired and rewarded kind of person in any given culture
Hegemonic masculinity
the unpaid work of housekeeping and childcare that faces family members once they return home from their paid jobs
Second shift
A social institution that demands total commitment from its members and overrides the established separation of social life into different spheres, such as work, home, leisure, politics, and religion
Greedy institutions
an arrangement in which one partner does more paid work than childcare and housework, and the other does the inverse
Specialized division of labor
the idea that an employee should devote themselves to their jobs wholly and without the distraction of family responsibilities
Ideal worker norm
an arrangement in which both partners do an equal share of paid and unpaid work
Shared division of labor
the idea that children require concentrated maternal investment
Ideology of intensive motherhood
a sweeping change in gender relations that started but has yet to be fully realized
Stalled revolution
an overprotective and very involved parenting style
Helicopter parenting
a concentration of women, trans women, and gay, bisexual, and gender-nonconforming men at the bottom of the income scale and a concentration of gender-conforming, heterosexual, cisgender men at the top
Feminization of poverty
an invisible ride to the top offered to men in female-dominated occupations
Glass escalator
a positive correlation between the number of men in an occupation relative to women and the wages paid to employees
Androcentric pay scale
the sorting of people with different social identities into separate occupations
Job segregation
work that involves face-to-face caretaking of the physical, emotional, and educational needs of others
Care work
a phenomenon in which men start abandoning an activity when women start adopting it
Male flight
a situation whereby women have more freedom than men but less power, and men have more power than women but less freedom
Freedom/Power Paradox
paying non-family members to do family-related tasks
Domestic outsourcing
a series of nurturing relationships in which the international work of care is displaced onto increasingly disadvantaged paid or unpaid workers
Global care chains
