Gendered 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

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) - the sorting of people with different social identities into separate occupations 

Heteronormative - promoting heterosexuality as the the only or preferred sexual identity, making other sexual desires invisible or casting them as inferior

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 faces family members once they return home from their paid jobs

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

Shared Division of Labor - an arrangement in which both partners do an equal share of paid and unpaid work

Specialized Division of Labor - an arrangement in which one partner does more paid work than childcare and housework and the other does the inverse 

Stalled Revolution - a sweeping change in gender relations that got started but has yet to be fully realized