Gender

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Sociology (Inequality in Society) Mindmap am Gender, erstellt von nadiaa am 04/05/2013.
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Gender
  1. Workplace
    1. Horizontal segregation - traditional male and female jobs
      1. Differences due to being socialised differently, learning different subjects at school, and women being discriminated in male jobs
      2. Gender gap - men earn more even in same job
        1. Men in charge of promotion discriminate women
          1. Division of labour - men are breadwinners, women only work for extra luxuries
          2. Sexism - sex discrimination
            1. Sex Discrimination Act 1975 - bans discrimination
            2. Having children affects women
              1. Glass ceiling - invisible barrier preventing them from getting promoted
            3. Education
              1. Girls - do better in school
                1. In the past, men thought girls didn't need a good education because they will be housewives and mothers
                  1. Rise in achievement due to awareness of gender issues and girls having higher expectations
                  2. Boys - underachieving
                    1. Less male jobs, more service jobs which are seen feminine
                      1. Laddish anti learning culture - being teased by peers
                        1. Lower literacy levels as reading in seen a female hobby
                          1. Lack of male role models in primary school
                        2. Life chances
                          1. Women are more downwardly mobile than upwardly mobile because children interrupt careers
                            1. Double shift - women work full time and do housework/childcare
                              1. Crime - women less convicted but more likely to be victims of rape
                                1. Health - men have shorter lives but women suffer more ill health
                                  1. Women likely to do unpaid careers in caring sick, elderly, disbaled
                                  2. Genderquake
                                    1. Sue Sharpe - In the past girls saw futures in terms of marriage and children not careers
                                      1. Changing aspirations - careers were more important, amounted in basic shift in gender relations (genderquake)
                                      2. Ladettes - women behaving like men were a new role model
                                        1. Can-Do girls - increasing confidence and high standards
                                          1. Girl Power - feeling created by role models in popular culture
                                            1. Might be achieved but hasn't been achieved yet
                                            2. Men
                                              1. Disadvantages - shorter life, more stress to support family, not valued as parents, hard to do female jobs
                                                1. Fewer secure jobs - unsure if able to support family
                                                  1. Men are under more suspicion of domestic violence
                                                    1. Children brought up without father figure so men not important
                                                      1. Peer pressure - can't be effeminate, must be macho
                                                        1. Changing roles
                                                          1. New Man - anti-sexist, faithful, considerate, willing to do housework/childcare
                                                            1. New Lad - sexist, like men used to be
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