Gender Study Guide
CHAPTER 4: GENDER
1. West and Zimmerman: “doing gender” and “having gender.”
2. Gender wage difference for those with a bachelor’s degree
3. Dr. M. Gigi Durham: The Lolita Effect
a. five common myths related to the Lolita effect
4. gender and religion
5. beliefs of feminists
6. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
7. the third wave of the feminist movement
8. trends in the percentage of women attending college
9. As men and women achieve higher levels of education, what happens to the income gap between them?
10. how employers perceive mothers
11. the number-one killer of women in the United States
12. Feminists seek to achieve what goals?
13. the difference between liberal feminists and radical feminists
14. Examples of abuse
15. sex
16. patriarchy
17. gender roles
18. How do functionalists see gender?
“Damned if You Do, Doomed if You Don’t.”
19. A survey of 1,231 senior executives from the United States and Europe found that women who act in ways that are consistent with gender stereotypes — defined as focusing “on work relationships” and expressing “concern for other people’s perspectives” — are considered less competent. But if they act in ways that are seen as more “male” — like “act assertively, focus on work task, display ambition” — they are seen as “too tough” and “unfeminine.”
20. predicaments of women executives
Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide. Linda Babcock & Sara Laschever
21. Which gender is better at negotiating salaries and raises?
22. Linda Babcock argues that over a lifetime, a starting salary difference of $5,000 can accumulate to a difference of over $500,000 (assuming 3 percent yearly raise and banking the difference into a 3 percent savings account).
Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty? Shelley J. Correll, Stephen Benard, and In Paik Cornell University
23. According to research discussed in class, which gender pays a wage penalty for having children?
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