Chapter 4:
GENDER INEQUALITY
By the end of this chapter students will be able to:
- Distinguish the difference between sex and gender.
- Define sex and gender.
- Understand and explain why gender roles have both a biological and social basis.
- Provide reasons for gender inequality.
- Discuss how gender socialization is initiated by parents and continues through the life course.
- Define sexual harassment and its impact on both individuals and society.
- Recognize how gender socialization contributes to personal adjustment difficulties, especially for women, such as anorexia and bulimia.
- Discuss contemporary gender inequality including gendered division of paid work.
- Explain the reasons for the wage gap.
- Discuss sexual harassment as a social problem, its causes, and the response to it.
- Explain the differences, similarities, and consequences of the glass ceiling and glass escalator.
- Explain gender discrimination from the symbolic interactionist, functionalist, and conflict perspectives.
- To discuss global gender inequality and recognize its far reaching impact on women worldwide.
