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Gender Glossary
Nursing - Introductory Sociology- Week3-2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| biological determinism | explanations that attribute complex social phenomena to physical characteristics |
| comparable worth | the principle of paying women and men equivalent wages for jobs involving similar levels of skill |
| al labor market theory | the idea that women and men have different earnings because they tend to work in different segments of the labor market |
| feminism | a way of thinking and acting that advocates a more just society for women |
| feminist theory | analyses of women and men in society intended to improve women's lives |
| gender | socially learned expectations and behaviors associated with members of each sex |
| gender apartheid | the extreme segregation and exclusion of women from public life |
| gender identity | one's definition of self as a woman or man |
| gender segregation | the distribution of men and women in different jobs in the labor force |
| gender socialization | the process by which men and women learn the expectations associated with their sex |
| gender stratification | the hierarchical distribution of social and economic resources according to gender |
| gendered institution | the idea that whole institutions are patterned by gender |
| hermaphroditism | a condition produced when irregularities in chromosome formation or fetal differentiation produces 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 |
| 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 women's advancement |
| matriarchy | a society or group in which women have power over men |
| multiracial feminism | form of feminist theory noting the exclusion of women of color from other forms of theory and centering its analysis in the experiences of all women |
| patriarchy | a society or group where men have power over women |
| radical feminism | feminist theoretical perspective that interprets patriarchy as the primary cause of women's oppression |
| sex | used to refer to biological identity as male or female |
| sexism | an ideology that defines women as different from and inferior to men |
| socialist feminism | a feminist theoretical perspective that interprets the origins of women's oppression as lying in the system of capitalism |
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