Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Midterm 4 study guide for Giddens et al. Chapter 10, Gender Inequality

Know about the following:

sex
gender
gender socialization
the social construction of gender and sex
Margaret Mead
the !Kung
berdache
patriarchy
gender inequality
women's participation in the paid labor force
the pay gap between men and women
comparable worth
the glass ceiling
the glass escalator
sexual harassment
the gendered division of labor in the home
Talcott Parsons
liberal feminism
radical feminism
black feminism
postmodern feminism
sex segregation
human capital theory
Susan Brownmiller
rape
the second shift