Women Gender Study Written Presentation 3 to 5 mins long Need by tomorrow 9 am
· The Gender Revolution
· Upward mobility doesn’t translate into the home, children are still taught the binary gender roles at home because men go to work and women stay home
· Men won’t work in female jobs
· Females started to enter more managerial jobs in the 1970s
· From Glass Ceiling to Inequality Regimes
· Women are unable to move up because they are given secretarial-like jobs while men are given managerial jobs, but both jobs have the same tasks
· This creates a wage gap
· Women are mistreated when they take on the roles of parenting
· They are viewed as not as devoted to the job, so managers will hire men who don’t have this second responsibility of the family
· Look Latina
· Discrimination women face in the workplace:
· Fetizisation (esp WOC)/ sexualization
· Racism
What these readings tell us
· Though women have been increasingly moving upward into male dominated workforces, there are still instances of sexism prevalent in the workplace today
· “Male” jobs preferred over “female” jobs (the gender revolution)
· Taught in the home/enforced in the workplace
1. “For example, parents are more likely to give girls “boy” toys such as Legos than they are to give dolls to their sons. Girls have increased their participation in sports more than boys have taken up cheerleading or ballet. Women now commonly wear pants, while men wearing skirts remains rare” (England 2010: 156).
1. “The limited change seen in heterosexual personal realm may be because women’s incentive to change these things is less clear than their incentive to move into paid work and into higher-paying “male” jobs” (England 2010: 156).
1. Showed in research showing men refusing to get female-dominated jobs, also shown that men are more likely to be hired based on the fact that women will have parenting obligations
2. “In spite of these heavy career demands ─ and the increased participation of men in child care, women still do more of the child care and domestic work at home. As a result, many women professionals and managers carry a heavier work burden that most men, a “triple burden” of home, career, and an often sexist workplace” (Acker 2009: 206).
. Gender wage gap
2. Men and women are given different job titles, but the same tasks (ie. a managerial position for a man, but the female assistant does all of the same tasks) and the female is paid less based on the fact that her job title is different
1. “... women’s statistical representation in managerial jobs may have been increased through a process of reclassification in which jobs previously designated as non-managerial have been converted to a managerial category” (Acker 2009: 204).
2. Male dominated jobs are preferred over women dominated jobs so there is an upward mobility of women working in “men’s” positions but no mobility in men working in “women’s” positions
2. “Men lose money and suffer cultural disapproval when they choose traditionally female-dominated fields; they have little incentive to transgress gender boundaries” (England 2010: 155).
. Women have to work harder in the workplace to be taken seriously
3. To not be sexualized or fetishized, having to “tone down” their way of dress at work
1. “Her allegations: she was fired because her male colleagues and supervisors believed she was too distracting at the office” (Crunkista 2017: 1).
3. Having the same job as men in the workplace but having it under a different title
2. “The researcher/change agents documented a culture and organizing practices at the executive level that rewarded stereotypical “heroic” male problem solving behaviors, tended to denigrate women who attempted to be heroes and failed to reward the mundane organization building most often done by women” (Acker 2009: 213).
3. WOC having to defy stereotypes about their race (“hot Latina” stereotype) in order to be taken seriously in the workplace
3. Examples of stereotypes of the spicy latina woman
Outside sources/real life examples:
· The Manny from This is Us?