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Chap 12
Gender
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biological determinism | explanations that attribute complex social phenomena to physical characteristics |
| comparable worth | the principal of paying men and women equivalent wages for jobs involving similar levels of skill |
| discrimination | over negative and unequal treatment of the members of some social group or stratum solely because of their membership in that group or stratum |
| doing gender | a theoretical perspective that that interprets gender as something that can be accomplished through the ongoing social interactions people have with one another |
| dual labor market theory | theoretical description of the occupational system defining it as divided into two major segments: The primary labor market and the secondary labor market |
| feminism | beliefs and actions that attempt to bring justice, fairness, and equity to all women, regardless of their race, age, class or sexual orientation |
| gender | socially learned expectations and behaviors associated with members of each sex |
| gender apartheid | refers to the economic and social sexual discrimination against individuals because of their gender or sex. |
| gender identity | one's definition of self as a woman or man |
| gender segregation | the distribution of men and woman learn in different jobs in the labor force |
| gender socialization | the process by which men and woman learn the expectations associated with their sex |
| gender stratification | the hierarchical distribution of social and economic resources according to gender |
| gender institution | the idea that whole institutions are patterned by gender |
| glass ceiling | popular concept referring to the limits that women and minorities experience in job mobility |
| hermaphroditism | a condition produced when irregularities in chromosome formation or fetal differentiation produce persons with mixed sex characteristics |
| homophobia | the fear and hatred of homosexuality |
| human capital theory | a theory that explains differences in wages as the result of differences in the individual characteristics of the workers |
| ideology | a belief system that tries to explain and justify the status-quo |
| index of dissimilarity | a measure used to indicate the number of workers who have to change jobs to have the same occupational distribution as the comparison group |
| labor force participation rate | the percentage of those in a given category who are employed |
| liberal feminism | a feminist theoretical perspective asserting that the origin of women's inequality is in traditions of the past that pose barriers to woman's advancement |
| matriarchy | a society or group in which woman have power over men |
| multiracial feminism | form of feminist theory noting the exclusion of woman of color from other forms of theory and centering its analysis in the experiences of all woman |
| occupational segregation | the pattern by which workers are separated into different occupations on the basis of social characteristics such as race and gender |
| patriarchy | a society or group in which men have power over women |
| sex | used to refer to biological identity as male or female |
| sexism | a system of practices and beliefs through which woman are controlled and exploited because of the the significance given to differences between the sexes |
| social feminism | is a branch of feminism that focuses upon both the public and private spheres of a woman's life and argues that liberation can only be achieved by working to end both the economic and cultural sources of women's oppression |
| Title IX | federal law which prohibits gender discrimination in any educational institution that receives federal funding |
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