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Sex
Biological term referring to ascribed physical differences between males and females
Sexuality
Sexual attraction to someone
Intersexed
Person with ambiguous genitalia such that sex is difficult to assign
Heteronormativity
expectations that people will be sexually attracted to members of the other sex
Gender
Socially construction, notions of masculinity and femininity
Gender roles
Commonly assigned task or expectations or behaviors linked to a sex
Gender socialization
People learn the cultural norms attitudes, behaviors, appropriate to their gender
Stages in gender socialization
In infancy and childhood parent/family/peers play major rules
later meso-level agents are important :
Corporations
Mass media
Educational system
Religious beliefs
Social construction
Conception of what something is suppose to be, is produced by the society we live in
Doing gender
Day -to- day, continuous production of gender
Sex inequality
Unique resources distributed to men and women
Gender inequality
Unequal values placed on masculinity and femininity
Sexism
Discrimination based on sex
Androcentricity
The way we think feel and act are not gender, neutral, but our culture relate primarily to men and take absolutely a on account of the life situations and experiences of women
Wage/ pay gap
Differences between the wages of women and men
Merit Gap Theory
Women were not as educated hadn’t work long enough worked in stop gap job and men were bread winners
Glass ceilings
Social forces that keep women from reaching the highest level of corporate and public responsibility
Sticky floors
Social forces that keeps the majority of the world women stuck in low paying jobs
Glass Escalators
Social forces that push men up The organization, hierarchy even if they do not seek to climate, especially in a female dominated occupation
Why is there a wage gap?
Hiring ,promotion , pay
Institutional discrimination
Woven into the social structure and taken for granted
De jure discrimination
Deliberate discrimination often justified by beliefs about women’s in a capability to carry a certain task
De facto discrimination
Unique treatment that is unintended
Side effect discrimination
Rest on links between practices and different institutions
Past in present discrimination
Practices from the past, that may no longer be allowed still affect people
Patriarchy
A few men dominate all others, including women, children, and less powerful men
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