Gender Oppression

Androcentric Pay Scale

A positive correlation between the number of men in an occupation relative to women and the wages paid to employees.

Breadwinner/Homemaker Marriage

Model of marriage that involves a wage-earning spouse supporting a stay-at-home spouse/children. Ideology of separate spheres. Heteronormative, monogamous, pro-natal

Freedom/Power Paradox

A situation whereby women have more freedom than men but less power, and men have more power than women but less freedom.

Gender Segregation (Jobs)

secretaries , administrative assistants , care work. Pay gap.

Heteronormative

relating to a world view that presents gender roles as fixed and heterosexuality , as the normal or preferred sexual orientation.

Patriarch/Property Marriage

A model of marriage in which women and children are owned by men.

Second Shift

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

Sexism

The production of unjust outcomes for people seen as women.

Shared Division of Labor

Stalled Revolution

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