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female infanticide
have an abortion because baby is female
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females make up...
50.7 % of population
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Why are women a minority group?
beacuse of their position relative to men
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1951 Helen Hackler was the first to..
catagorized women as a minority group
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sexism
belief that one sex is innately superior to the other
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yes some women do make it to power but..
women as a group do not make up and equal percent or close to those men in power
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Sex typed
most work is sex typed, associated with one sex or the other
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Major areas of discrimination
Political/legal, education, economic, social
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Sex vs Gender
Sex: male and female Gender: man and Woman or maleness/femaleness
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sex is a...
master trait...cuttig across all other identies in life
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Symbolic interactionism position:
such gender differences are learned. they emphasize how socialization makes the stereotypes applied at birth a reality. if males are labeled agressive boys will fulfill those expectations
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Functionalist theory:
if male dominace is universal, how did it come about? 1. rewareded warriors:survival. 2. Biological: reproduction > men are stronger physically. Men more women to have more opportunies for offspring.
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Conflict/Feminist theory:
- power yields privilages, powerful have more resources
- Being in power create feeling of superiority
- justify why they are in power because of these feelings of superiority
- powerful cling to privilages to maintain power
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suffragist
Feminist 1916, formed the national woman's party with goal to give women right to vote
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glass ceiling
conceptual blockage that keeps women from achieveing the higher positions i the workplace.
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testosterone
hormone produced by the testicles that stimulates primary and secondary sex traites
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women or men more in college?
women: 2.3 million more
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kinsely research on homosexuality
Just because one partakes in homosexual behavior at any point in their life does not make them homosexual
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Laumann Research
number of people in america who identify themselves as homosexual
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Humphrey's research
Tearoom sex
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symbolic interactionism violence against women
generize children at young age. boys associate violence with masculineity
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feminist/conflict theory perspective of violence aginst women
men try to establish power and dominance, control, and autority. some gain this trough violence
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Social policy: radical extremist:
sexism is in our roots, brought up in childhood
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Social policy Conservative extremist
womans rights are to be housewife and mother
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Middle of the road policy
gender pay gap, equitable distrubution of housework
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