Post on 02-Jan-2016
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Gender and Gender Stratification
What is Gender?
Gender: the personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being male or female.– Sex: Physical and reproductive
characteristics that distinguish between a male and a female
– GENDER, LIKE RACE, IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
Gender Stratification: the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women
Gender Roles
Gender Roles: Attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex
Gender Stratification
1893: Colorado becomes the first state to adopt a woman suffrage amendment
1916: Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic
1920: 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote
1960: FDA approves the birth control pill
1967: LBJ expands affirmative action to women
1972: Title IX
1973: Roe v. Wade