Chapter 7
Class and social stratification: Gender
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- sex
- the biological characteristics that distinguish males and females
- Sex-typed
- the association of behaviours with one sex or the other
- Matriarchies
- authority vested in females; female control of a society or
- Sexual Harasment
- the abuse of one's position of authority to force unwanted sexual demands on someone
- Gender Inequality
- males' and females' unequal access to resources, power, prestige, status, and property on the basis of their sex (
- Feminism
- the philosophy that men and women should be politically, economicially, and socially equal
- Minority group
- a group discriminated against on the basis of its members' physical or cultural characteristics
- Gender
- the social characteristics that a society considers proper for its males and females; masculinity or femininity
- Patriarchies
- authority vested in males; male control of a society or group;
- Agency
- individual or collective actions upon social structures and circumstances