Evidence that gender is rooted in culture includes global comparisons of how people in society define what is feminine and what is masculine.Society is conditioned to give more power to men over women. Throughout our history, women have had to fight for women's rights.
Patriarchy varies throughout history and from different societies.
gender becomes part of our personalities and our actions/. Gender roles also known as sex roles attitudes and activates that a society links each to sex.
After the women's rights ,movement, a majority of women are now in the paid labor force, but 39% hold clerical or service jobs. This gender difference in results in earnings being less for women than men due to differences in jobs, differences in family responsibilities, and discrimination.
Gender Stratification shapes family life, most unpaid housework is performed by women, whether or not they hold jobs outside the home.
Pregnancy and raising small children keep many women out of the labor force.
There are now laws set in place to secure women's jobs while they are on maternity leave.
Until a century ago, almost no women held any elected office in the United States.
The number of women in politics has increased significantly. Women only make up 14% of the military though.
The Structural-functional theory suggest that distinctive roles for males and females reflect biological differences between the sexes. Inn industrial societies, marked gender inequality becomes dysfuncional and gradually decreases.
Its just enlightening to know that everyday women are moving closer to equal treatment as men, even though its like turtle steps.
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