Chapter 9 Gendered Oppression

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patriarch/property marriage

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

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breadwinner/homemaker marriage

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

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ideology of separate spheres

the idea that the home is a feminine space best tended by women and work is a masculine space best suited to men

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pro-natal

promoting child-bearing and stigmatizing choosing to go child-free

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partnership unions

a relationship model based on love and companionship between equals

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sexism

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

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androcentrism

the production of unjust outcomes for people who perform femininity

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hegemonic masculinity

the form of masculinity that constitutes the most widely admired and rewarded kind of person in any given culture

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second shift

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

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ideal worker norm

the idea that an employee should devote themselves to their jobs wholly and without the distraction of family responsibilities

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shared division of labor

one in which both partners do an equal share of paid and unpaid work

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specialized division of labor

one in which one partner does more paid work than childcare and housework and the other does the inverse

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time-use diary

a research method in which participants are asked to self-report their activities at regular intervals over at least twenty-four hours

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ideology of intensive motherhood

the idea that children require concentrated maternal investment

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feminization of poverty

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

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glass escalator

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

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job segregation

the sorting of people with different social identities into separate occupations

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androcentric pay scale

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

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male flight

a phenomenon in which men start abandoning an activity when women start adopting it

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stalled revolution

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

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freedom/power paradox

women have more freedom than men but less power, and men have more power than women but less freedom

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