ch.9 gender oppression

ch.9 gender oppression

gender bread person:

identity, attraction, expression, sex

patriarch/property marriage

A model of marriage in which women and children are owned by men(women couldn’t vote, have money, no rights to children, etc)

bread winner/homemaker marriage

a model of marriage that involves a wage-earning spouse supporting stay at home spouse/children

family wage

income paid to a man that is large enough to support a non-working wife and children

ideology of separate spheres

the idea that the home is a feminine space best tended by women; work is masculine

heteronormative:

promoting heterosexuality as the only sexual identity

mononormative

promoting monogomy; spouses have sexual interactions with only each other

pro-natal

promoting childbearing and stigmatizing choosing to go child free

central hierarchies

men over women; some men over other men

sexism

The production of unjust outcomes for people perceived to be biologically female

androcentrism

production of the unjust outcomes for people who perform femineity

hegemonic masculinity

the form of masculinity that continues to be the most admired in any given culture

Second shift-

The unpaid work of housekeeping and childcare that faces family members once they return from their paid jobs

what sociologist is famous for the second shift?

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild is famous for the “second shift.”

feminization of poverty

 a concentration of women, trans women, gay, bisexual, and gender non-conforming at the bottom of the income scale and a concentration of gender conforming, heterosexual, and cisgender men at the top

glass escalator

an invisible ride to the top offered to men in female-dominated occupations

Job segregation-

the sorting of people with different social identities who separate occupations

Stalled revolution-

a sweeping change in gender relations that started but has yet to be fully realized