Gender Inequality at Work
The main reason women will earn less for their work.
What is obligations to caretaking of their families?
The sharing of housework duties between men and women. Often unequal.
What is gender division of labor?
The activity of raising a child.
What is parenting?
Expectations and rules regarding how men and women should behave.
What are gender norms?
Women’s earnings is 83% of men’s, full-time work.
What is the gender pay gap?
Gender roles are often learned through this social process.
What is socialization?
The connection parents make with their children that they use as a foundation of learning and development.
What is social bonds?
A reason gender norms are so persistent is that they are embedded in society.
What is an institution?
A major contributing factor to the gender wag gap. Women entering lower paying careers.
What is occupational gender segregation?
Refers to women coming home from their job and "clocking in" to do the majority of household work.
What is the second shift?
A cultural pressure put on mothers to put more time and effort into raising their children.
What is intensive motherhood?
The idea that men are the breadwinners and women are caretakers and homemakers.
What is a gender stereotype?
Includes all tasks directly involving the care of others. No expectancy of rewards.
What is care work?
The conflict that occurs when obligations of work or family roles make it difficult to fulfill obligations of the other role.
What is work-family conflict?
The idea that the father is the economic provider and authority figure for his children.
What is the male provider ideal?
Parents strictly enforcing their children's gender even when there is no question of gender identity issues.
What is enforcing gender roles?