WGSS Midterm #2

Feminism

A movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression

Sexism

Systems of advantages privileging men while oppressing women

The media’s role in enabling sexism

Plays a role in setting beauty standards and encouraging certain bodily disciplinary practices

Gender inequality in the film/tv industry

daytime vs evening time screenings

Reality shows reinforce gender and beauty standards

Male gaze

Predictable sitcoms with humor denigrating certain groups

Male gaze

Perceiving women as objects

Seeing movies through male protagonist’s eyes

Themes of gender, health, and wellness

equity: experiencing good health and access to health care

Androcentrism and medicalization: health and medical practices are male-centered

Stereotyping: medical industry treating people differently based on intersecting social identities

Corporate responsibility: how corporations with strong profit motives affect our health

Reproductive justice

the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, to have/not have children, and be able to parent children in safe and sustainable communities

Clergy Consultation Service

Religious leaders referring and counseling people to licensed doctors for safe abortions

Forced Sterilization

involuntary, state-mandated, or coerced removal of reproductive capacity

Why an intersectional analysis to health and wellness is important

Understand how systemic structures surrounding race, gender, sexuality, etc. shape health outcomes

Family values

seeing cis women defined by their domestic and reproductive roles

Seeing cis men defined by rightful sources of power and authority

Seeing married straight family as the only legit family form

Feminist and queer critiques of the institution of marriage

The institution is designed to make women dependent and reinforce traditional gender norms

Perceived as a system meant to control women’s bodies

Achieving marriage equality ignores other societal issues facing the LGBT community

Government provides benefits to homosexual marriages

Coverture

the wife’s economic and legal standing goes through the man

Factors contributing to changing patterns of parenting in the US

Median age to have kids is lower

US population declining

Parenting costs dramatically increasing

Lack of policies, programs, and state support for parents

Frameworks to understand gender-based violence

surveillance

Multimodal harassment

Identity obfuscation

Distribution of intimate images

Coercive control

Behavior to assert influence and control over someone’s life

technology enabled coercive control (TECC)

Includes the role of digital technology in facilitating coercive control

TECC examples

cyberstalking

Monitoring

Impersonation

Harassment

Distribution of intimate images

Labor force factors contributing to gender pay gap

horizontal occupational segregation

Vertical occupational segregation

Overt and Covert discrimination

Inconsistency around comparable worth laws

Parenting and the motherhood penalty

Horizontal occupational segregation

women and men working in different kinds of jobs

Jobs women enter into are valued and rewarded less

Vertical occupational segregation

women and men enter into different specialities within the same occupation

Inconsistency determining comparable work and worth

No consistent index comparing different jobs (engineering vs teaching) while looking at factors like experience, skill, training, and education

Motherhood penalty

economic and professional disadvantage women face after having children, including lower wages, hiring biases, and fewer promotion opportunities compared to fathers and childless women

Lily Ledbetter fair Pay act

got rid of legal loophole saying you had to file discrimination cases within 180 days of being discriminated against

Pay secrecy

Prohibiting workers from discussing their salaries

Patriarchy

a system where adult cismen dominate power, resources, and authority