Gender Inequality: Women's Role in Economy, Labor Force, and Earnings, Study notes of Contemporary Sociology

Download Gender Inequality: Women's Role in Economy, Labor Force, and Earnings and more Study notes Contemporary Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! Institutionalizing and Legitimizing Stratification: Gender • Women’s status in a society as a result of their role in economic production and distribution • Gender role differentiation in modern industrial societies • Men specialize in work in the market • Women specialize in work in the home. Institutionalizing and Legitimizing Stratification: Gender • Women’s Nonagricultural Labor Force Participation Rate 1. Highest (>40%): East European, Scandinavian, Northwestern Europe, Canada, the United States, and East Asian countries. 2. High (30-40%): Most of southern European countries except Spain and Greece. 3. Low (<30%): Latin American 4. Lowest (<10%): African and Middle Eastern Islamic Countries (Level of Economic Development, Religion) Institutionalizing and Legitimizing Stratification: Gender • Are gender differences biologically based or social-culturally determined? • Research on nonhuman primates • Research on infants and young children (verbal, quantitative, visual-spatial abilities) Institutionalizing and Legitimizing Stratification: Gender • Gender Differences in Earnings: Supply-Side Influences: • Education and Training • Effort • Job Segregation • Pre-market Socialization and Allocation • Social Networks Demand-Side Influences: • Discrimination: “taste” discrimination & “statistical” discrimination • Occupational segmentation