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Gender Relations
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1. What is the difference between sex and gender and how does it relate to sexism?
Answer: According to the glass ceiling theory, when women strive to advance themselves in their jobs, they are prevented by hidden obstacles based on the “Old Boys’ Club” mentality. This mentality supports hiring male managers and leaders based on the faulty proposition that women are inferior.
2. What do you understand by the term “glass ceiling”?
Answer: Sex is a biological term used to describe differences in men and women. Gender, on the other hand, is a social construct that exists on a spectrum. People use these gendered differences to partake in sexism. Sexism is discriminating a person on the basis of their gender.
3. Why does the textbook say that, although women are present in the workforce, they experience work/family conflicts much differently than men?
Answer: Adult women carry out more housework than men. This includes both mothers and daughters. In child rearing, mothers are likely to do more than fathers. Often women drop out of the labour force to take care of the children.
4. What is the difference between the way conflict theorists and feminists view gender inequality compared to the way functionalists view the concept?
Answer: Functionalists take a social issue and try to find the function of it. In the case of gender inequality, they see it as contributing to creating the greater equilibrium in society.
5. What factors led to the increasing interest in studying gender issues after the mid-twentieth century?
Answer: For a social matter to get discussed in sociology, the people who are interested in the problem need to be in positions of power. In the mid-twentieth century, women became more powerful than they were in the past. In the process, they became more visible thinkers about social matters. Prior to this time, few women received a university education or taught at universities. The growing feminism movement continued to press for greater gender equality.