Chapter 4 Learning Objectives

Gender Relations

In this chapter, students should learn to do the following:

  1. Distinguish between sex and gender.
  2. Understand the process of gender socialization.
  3. Understand the gendered role of housekeeping and child-rearing.
  4. Understand how gender inequality plays out in the paid workforce.
  5. Understand the role of the feminization of poverty in creating health problems.
  6. Compare and contrast how gendered relations are viewed from the five theoretical perspectives.
  7. Understand how gender stereotypes are shown in the media and the media’s contribution to gender inequality.
  8. Understand the policy and institutional solutions to gender inequality, and their effectiveness as solutions.
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